Subaru Legacy test drive since 2008 sedan
The struggle of contradictions. Subaru Legacy GTS review
For the first time when I saw the new generation Legacy in the photographs, I immediately thought that the designer crisis in Subaru continues. The appearance was perceived by me ambiguously, with a share of skepticism. Especially against the backdrop of memories of the ocular and proportional predecessor. However, the impression of photographs is often incorrect, and the perception of the car as a whole is allowed to make only well on it. I well remember the test of the previous generation sedan (http://info.drom.ru/surveys/8956/). The car was with a three-liter engine and the Si-Drive system after restyling. Then I regretted only that the SPEC B version did not get on the test with the Bilstein suspension and a mechanical gearbox. But in a peaceful form it was a quick car with pleasant controllability. The salon was also made qualitatively and harmonized with external data.
The new Legacy is impressive differently. She seems more rougher and more uncommon. It can be seen that the Subarovsk designers swung to the new style their new creation does not look like any of the previous models of the company. But it manages to simultaneously resemble several other cars from different countries at once. From each angle, new associations. It is annoying that at the same time a set of unobvious borrowings does not want to take shape in a finished image.
An elaborate front end with huge blocks spreading into half a face is adjacent to a calm and not without feeling of a sense of the back of the back part, where quite elegant lights are lit up on wings, towards the hofmayster bending previously for Legasi. Classic vast doors, like Subaru Impreza, went into another world. But now the matured sedan precedes the chrome -based edging of lateral glazing. Sports should add optional 18-inch spitting wheels. They are trying, but in hypertrophied arches the discs do not seem large.
Changing the viewing point, you notice that the perception of the car mutates. The sedan looks aggressive, sometimes ominous, then elegant, then heavy. It seems to me, the facelift of this generation Legacy will be early. Although ... perhaps he will suffer and love. But obviously not at first sight.
The chip-key chip remains in the GTS top version pocket is equipped with a non-clock access system and starting from the button (exactly like on Toyota!).
Conveniently, you quickly get used to the system. The landing became obviously higher, behind the wheel is more spacious, the salon was heard in the shoulders and in the reserve of the place we are comparable even with Camry or Teana. But, comparing the scope, it is better to leave further parallels, because they are unlikely to be in favor of Legashi. The quality of the finishing materials indicates one debut of the car in the midst of the economic crisis, because even in the last generation the front panel was dressed in elastic and pleasant plastic to the touch! The current plastic is not particularly pleasant even for inspection: it looks like a rude Kirza. And you do not have to touch it at all, for he is all oak. Only the door panels are trimmed on top of the skin and therefore soft in the upper layer. The lower perimeter of the front and door panels is made of even more condo hard plastic. The lack of a colored display on the central console (which is in other markets) is depressing, and muddy digital screens only complement the picture of despondency.
They are trying to save the settings of the insert under the carbon, but their credibility is also doubtful. The central console, traditionally for a company, silver with a fairly interesting texture that imitates metal, but for some reason the whole thing looks quite plastic.
But it’s a pity, because sound and vibration insulation is made efficiently, and sitting in the cabin on comfortable, albeit very corny, leather chairs, is comfortable. And if the interior is better, the buyer would be much more likely to please the buyer.
I sit down behind myself with a small margin on my knees and the necessary gap between the crown and the ceiling. Of the amenities, there is only a duct in the end of the central tunnel and an armrest with naked cup holders. Inexpensive for a car at a price of almost 1.7 million rubles.
By the way, the past Legacy Spec B in 2006 was estimated at $ 50,600, and ours in dollar equivalent today at 57,909 (1,698,500 rubles). In addition, today with the most powerful engine you can only order GTS, which is presented on the test. And only with a machine gun. The mechanics are now available only for the weakest two -liter machine. A variator for 2.0- and 2.5-liter engines is also offered.
There are plenty of technical improvements and innovations compared to the predecessor in the new Legacy. A new, more hard body, which has been achieved due to the widespread use of high -strength steels. The design of the front subframe, on which the suspension and the motor are mounted and which is attached to the body through elastic supports. The new scheme not only increases the rigidity of the suspension, but is also the key to the grown vibrocom.
Third (and for many and the first) this is a motor. Under the hood of the top version is now an old familiar, four-cylinder horizontal-opposition engine with turbocharges. I immediately note that if you think that it is easier and more compact H6, then you are mistaken. The three-liter six is \u200b\u200blonger than the four-cylinder by only two centimeters, and the attachment of a 2.5-liter turbo engine makes them comparable in weight. But the latter is more elastic, more powerful and momentary, which is preferable for a rather heavy sedan.
You notice a solid increase in dynamics not only during acceleration, but also when you study passport data. The new Legacy with an automatic transmission reaches to 100 km/h faster than the old Spec B with mechanics by 0.7 seconds.
It is a pity that the manual transmission remained in the past. After all, a modern top version has an old 5-speed automatic. The box is not particularly quick, it is noticeable. Pause occurs not only when switching down, but also up. In the sports algorithm (which turns on simultaneously with the Sport Sharp mode SI-Drive systems), the delays and the Duma of the checkpoint become a little shorter, but still you achieve complete understanding only when you take control in your own hands, the benefit of steering wheel levers have a convenient elongated shape. How pleasant it is to jerk off in a good rhythm of the step and watch how the tachometer arrow with a quick run along the growing numbers. Definitely, Legacy GTS is able to spoil the nerves of many opponents on the highway. How can I not dream about the possibilities of promising STI?
The GTS version will delight the sophisticated driver with a sports suspension with Bilstein shock absorbers. Minimum rolls are combined with elastic and comfortable passage of various kinds of irregularities. On the tram tracks, paved with tiles, you can fly quite calmly. And before acute irregularities, the chassis does not graze.
Rids to work with the steering wheel is quite fast, the exchange rate stability is good. And although the machine actively reacts to the rut, it is not difficult to make adjusting actions by the steering wheel. By the way, the Japanese supply only GTS hydraulic power steering. Weaker versions go with an electric power steering.
The only one in the lineup, the GTS version is equipped and all-wheel drive with an asymmetric distribution of torque along the axes back is 55 percent, and ahead 45. A electronic all-wheel drive with the active distribution of the torque is put on cars with the variator, and the 2.0-liter mechanical mechanical is equipped with an interdosseous A self-locking differential based on VIS-MUFTA (with an equal distribution of traction). Interdaemolens differentials on all versions are free. So it turns out that it is the turbo-sedan that has the most driver all-wheel drive, which, in principle, is completely logical.
And this is felt, especially with the power and thrust that sends a turbo engine to wheels. With the stabilization system disconnected, the Subaru Racing Genes can be felt already on acceleration. If the wheels are slippery coating, the car begins to actively wag the tail! In the bend, the white sedan is also not averse to going sideways. Moreover, he does this both in response to the strongly opening of the gas, turning into a power sliding with an emphasis on the rear axle, and after control at the entrance. Well, if you just stupidly put pressure on the gas, turning the steering wheel, and expect that the car itself will break into the skid, then in response you need to wait for obvious insufficient rotation when the nose is stupidly sliding out, and the machine rains helplessly with all four wheels.
Well, the test of running qualities made it unequivocally understood by the appearance that causes questions, the driver is lurking, which spurbs with a quick ride and allows you to enjoy it. True, in this case, in this case, you should also forget about the good appetite of the motor. Under the hood of a massive Legacy, it becomes completely swallowed. In calm mode, the city easily eats 15-16 liters. Well, if you do not spare the accelerator pedal, the consumption immediately goes beyond the 20-liter mark. But what about the advantages of a practical sense? Legacy GTS, despite the dynamics and suspension, the car is still not sports. The main plus in the piggy bank of the practical values \u200b\u200bof the white shell automatic. You can travel through traffic jams and not worry, and if necessary, call to help Kick Dawn. Spacious salon, trunk too. True, for some reason the possibility of folding the backs of seats of the second row is not provided for only a hatch for long-termers.
Like all Subaru, on which I had to ride, climate control behaves quite wonderful and noisily. The system blows very actively and loudly with air, even when this feels not required. After several not very successful attempts to find a common language with it, I went into manual control mode.
The new Legacy turned out to be contradictory. An ambiguous design and an unfinished salon get along with excellent running qualities, comfort, evil dynamics and open spaces inside. My opinion is such a machine of improvements to the aesthetic plan is vital. And then you can count on a long and successful life.
In the meantime, there is a discrepancy between the proposed set of qualities and prices. Maybe that is why I still have not seen a single new Legacy on the roads of Moscow and the region, except for this test?
Technical characteristics Subaru Legacy GTS
Engine type: gasoline, horizontal and opposite with turbocharged
Working volume: 2 457 cm3
Power (L.S. at rpm): 265/5 600
Torque (Nm at rpm): 350/2 4005 200
Drive: constant full
Gearbox: 5-speed automatic
Front suspension: type Mcphereson
Hind suspension: Independent multi -link
Front brakes: ventilated discs
Rear brakes: ventilated discs
Length (mm): 4 730
Width (mm): 1 780
Height (mm): 1 505
Wheel base (mm): 2 750
Equipped mass (kg): 1 542
Fuel consumption
In the city (l): 14.9
On the highway (l): 8.1
Combined (L): 10.6
Maximum speed (km/hour): 245
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec): 6.2
A source: Drom.ru
