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Anti-family values

The mark of 100 km / h is spooled somewhere in the middle of the working range of the third gear. The speedometer arrow has not yet crossed the equator marked up to 260 km / h scale. On the tachometer four with a small thousand. Let's look at the central console. On the multifunction screen, additional devices: a voltmeter, flow meter and an acceleration reserve index.


And is this a family car?
Ribs and hips feel solid lateral support, hands customize the height of the three-spoke steering wheel Momo. Under the legs of Mattovo glisten the four sports and pumped planes of pedals and a leisure platform of the left leg. Something suggests that the left foot today will not be rest
 

Turn the key. From the dark dashboard float red edging devices. Following them, the arrows flas out brightly, making a ritual procession on the route from the limit to the limit. There is. Returned. Now the turn of white optimal scales that trust the impeccable picture behind the wheel. Turn the key until it stops, and under the hood begin to boux six cylinders of a three-liter oppository.

  

And this is a family car?!
The mark of 100 km / h is spooled somewhere in the middle of the working range of the third gear. The speedometer arrow has not yet crossed the equator marked up to 260 km / h scale. On the tachometer four with a small thousand. Let's look at the central console. On the multifunction screen, additional devices: a voltmeter, flow meter and an acceleration reserve index. And this latter convinces: traction is still abound. The right leg agrees and pursues the seemingly outdoor pedal of the accelerator. Turns jump to the red zone. Clutch Working in the first third of pressing the fourth gear, and the speedometer arrow already conquers new frontiers.
 
Box from Sport Atelier Subaru Tecnica International is great. Single switching, concise moves. Short lever do not twitch and do not move to them manipulate. And gradually feel that it is already manipulating your mind why is still the third? Come on, three more! So briefly become a fan of low starts. Standing on the next pole position, unwittingly throw a glance left-right who is there? Ugh, again dozens
Still, the full drive is a great thing. Even such not climbed by programmable differentials, as on this Legacy. The torque is divided into half between two axes, which is quite enough to demonstrate already former neighbors in the stream of their ruby \u200b\u200brear lights. And then catch up with those cars, to light up their expressive face in their mirrors with a chromed edging of the radiator grille and samurai head optics and, second, later, the black arrow flew by, let the rapid lines of the sidewall estimate.

 

And this is a family car?!
People with Legacy are rushing on. The steering wheel, lightweight in parking modes, with increasing speed requires significant efforts when deviating from a direct trajectory. I am sure that we will go in turn with this crazy speed? Let's go. And we will do it beautifully without diagonalock and frightening rolls. The steering wheel is similar to the thoroughbred, having shown the proper degree of perseverance, he suddenly empties, conquering will be strong. At first scares, but then you get used to the information anyway enough. Bridgestone Potenza 215 / 45R18 tires are confidently cling to the trajectory, and the symmetrical four-wheel drive saves from surprises. Well, if there are still surprises, you can, so be, to move the right foot from gas to the brake, nodding your head in response to a slowdown and again gas, gas
 

And this is a family car
Behind the wheel of such a car, you will thoroughly forget that there are passenger places and an impressive trunk in addition. There is. And the rear sofa with armrest and a decent margin of foot space, and the trunk with a very comfortable door can be opened without risk to get into the jaw, even if you stand closely to the car. A back of the rear sofa is easy to fold or completely, or forty percent, or sixty enough just press the button to which it is not difficult to reach.
 
Only if you decide to ride a family on three-liter Legacy, stocking of the hygienic bags them the place in the meshes on the backs of the front seats.
Yet this car professes clearly not family values.
 
Autography
Subaru Legacy
Winner
japanese competition
Car 2004.
Predecessor
Legacy III (1998)
Prototype
WX-01 (2001)
Premiere
october 2004.
Body
sedan, 5-door wagon
Engines
2.0-3.0 L (138-245 hp)
Production
Japan
Expected replacement
2010/11

 
The car is provided by Laura-Auto, the official Subaru dealer.
During the dough, the car is insured by Rosno.
 
Text: Nikolay Svistun
Photo: Roman Stunnin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Source: Magazine "Wheels" [№85 / 2004]