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In other sedans, all -wheel drive option: a worthy and more expensive alternative to the front or rear. In Subaru, the drive is one symmetrical and complete. And you can choose an engine, checkpoint, equipment, color. Or model ... All the main components from the engine to the transmission, from the power distribution mechanism to the cardan shaft are in Subaru on one line, with complete longitudinal symmetry of the location.
This is the main doctrine of Subaru. This is what unites one and a half-liter Impreza elderly secretary with a three-liter 245-horsepower Legacy Spec. In the Russian champion in rally. This is included in each package and does not come separately from Subaru. This is a legacy of one and a half decades of experience in WRC; The scheme, designed by cones and abrasions of Makreya, Burns, Myakinen, Sainz and Solberg. Clients buy Symmetrical All-Wheel-Drive, and Impreza, Forester or B9 Tribeca receive it in addition to it
Subaru Legacy Specifications
(manufacturer data):
Dimensions (length x width x height) 4665 x1730x1465
Road clearance, mm 150
Equipped mass, kg 1 390
Trunk volume, l 433
Engine volume and power, l (l. P. At rpm) 2.0 (150/6,000)
Maximum torque, NM at rpm 196/3 200
Acceleration to 100 km/h 9.5 s
Maximum speed 209 km/h
Average fuel consumption (city/highway) l/100 km 11.7/8.6/6.7
Since 2008, the LEGACY lineup has been updated. Moreover, no constructive external changes followed. But there are more engines. To 2.0- and 3.0-liter, a 2.5-liter unit with a capacity of 173 liters was added. p., and a 2.0-liter motor is deformed up to 150 liters. With. (from 165 hp.). All cars can be equipped with four- or five-speed machines, as well as five- and six-speed mechanical gearboxes. On our test, a car close to the basic car with a 2.0-liter engine and mechanics visited the basic.
Subaru Legacy consists of contradictions. It is like a compromise between the elements incompatible before: a full -wheel drive system, an opposite two -liter motor and comfortable movement around the city!
Hard and stable in corners a car and small fossa and cracks in the asphalt softly spent with shock absorbers. Not forgiving Subaru management errors and the absence of a stabilization system (the VDC system is available only starting with a top 2.5-liter version and 3.0-liter models).
Legacy, like an domesticated beast, can be calm and balanced. Until he is disturbed, he tenaciously holds on the asphalt, quickly and accurately reacts to the turns of the steering wheel, but it is worth mistaken and under the creak of unsolved tires the sedan jumps from the trajectory first in the front, and then the drift of the rear axle. These processes are predictable and are easy to adjust. In normal mode, torque is distributed in a proportion of 55:45, so Legacy has almost a front -wheel drive character. But as necessary, the craving can be redistributed from 80:20 to 20:80. Moreover, an all -wheel drive sedan inspires confidence regardless of what is under the wheels. That is why we are ready to forgive even the lack of a stabilization system.
Short transmissions, frisky acceleration for fast driving requires frequent and timely work with a short -flowing high lever. In the hands of the driver Legacy is a small diameter and a steering wheel convenient to the touch, but all its tactile advantages are compromised by the adjustment: it can only be tuned in height. The front seats are moderately soft, but perfectly well -defined.
Drivers of different systems are quite enough for a place, but the passenger of the rear seat the ceiling will ask not to straighten their backs. However, only if the growth of the latter exceeds an eighty meter Prices
This winter, special prices are valid for the car, usually the most affordable Legacy with a 2.0-liter 150-horsepower engine and a 5-speed manual transmission costs 853,300 rubles. The same car with an automatic machine is 892 300. The configuration has ABS, EBD, cruise control, two-zone climate control, a radio with a CD changer, 4 airbags. Having added 12,200 rubles, you can get side safety curtains. Versions with xenon and hatch will cost, respectively, 898 600 and 937,000 rubles.
Model with a 2.5-liter engine in 173 hp Significantly more expensive: the most affordable for 1 034 700 (with automatic transmission 1 073 700) offers, in addition to the above, leather seats with electric drive. Legacy with a traffic stabilization system, access to the Smart Entry interior system is presented only with an automatic machine for 1,155,100.
Versions with a 3.0-liter engine (245 hp) are offered only with a 5-speed automatic transmission for 1 355 300 or 1,420 200 (with navigation). Finally the top Legacy 3.0r Spec. B (the main feature of the 18th disks) costs from 1,338,500 with the automatic transmission and from 1,351,600 with 6-speed mechanics.
Subaru Legacy is not a car with all -wheel drive: this is a full -wheel drive with a car. With a body of a middle class sedan, one of three available engines, a suspension and a set of additional options.
Maybe that's why the level of loyalty to the brand is so high: it is easy to change the car, and to change the all -wheel drive Subaru to another, very significant arguments are needed
The car was provided by the RTR, the official Subaru dealer
Text: Dmitry Medvedev
Photo: Roman Ostanin
A source: Wheel magazine [No. 124/2008]
