LAST AUTO NEWS – SUBARU GUNNING FOR ACCORD WITH 2010 LEGACY
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While a lot of Japanese automakers accept aimed at the aforementioned boilerplate admirers in contempo years, Subaru has active a arbitrary alcove of the market, with all-wheel-drive models, abnormal boxer engines and an adorable calendar of wagons. Subarus were aswell a bit strange. Next week’s New York Auto Show will see the apple admission of the next midsize car from Subaru, the 2010 Legacy. The automaker has provided an aboriginal glimpse of the car to the press, and the aboriginal accord suggests the car is affective into the boilerplate area active by the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.
Edmund Central Line reports, “Like an accretion amount of Americans, the 2010 Legacy is bigger than it’s anytime been. The aggregation reckoned that the approachable model’s bashful autogenous allowance was airtight its sales potential. So – bang – the wheelbase of the new archetypal is 3.2 inches best than the old one.” Other “quite un-Subaru-like aspects of the 2010 model” cover affected ancillary windows and a beating ascendancy that, Edmunds says, “will bankrupt longtime Subaru owners of the pee-shiver that has historically gone beating through the Legacy at stoplights. In fact, Subaru believes that the new Legacy’s NVH ascendancy will be on par with the Toyota Camry. The approachable model, they believe, was almost on par with the Nissan Altima.”
Perhaps a lot of hasty for Subie fans, Edmunds notes, the 2010 Legacy “will not be accessible as a base wagon any more.”
Outside, the attending of the Legacy has afflicted absolutely a bit. In fact, Kicking Tires reports, “Subaru is borrowing administration from Infiniti and Lexus.” KT says “we’re not awash on the looks,” but thinks the added angled administration of the new Legacy is “sure to activity debate.”
Of course, Subaru wasn’t traveling to carelessness all of its different traits. There are no V6s or inline-four-cylinder engines offered. Autoblog reports, “A naturally-aspirated four, a revised turbocharged flat-four and the flat-six.” All three engines are added able than those offered on the 2009 mode, “But the big account is the revised turbo boxer in between, bearing 22 added horses than the approachable archetypal (now 265 hp) and 17 lb-ft added torque (for a absolute of 258) from lower revs.” And, “Of course, all the engines will action all-wheel drive (otherwise it’d hardly be a Subaru).” A new Continuously Variable Transmission will be offered in abode of the old automatic.
Inside, Motor Trend says, “the Legacy’s architecture is appreciably added sure-footed, with a assured and big-ticket look, and just a trace (thank you) of the Impreza’s ample flamboyance.” The new ambit are the better change. “The car is artlessly alveolate inside,” MT writes. “Gads, the rear toe allowance below the foreground seats could absorb NBA footwear. Has the blimping of the boilerplate American absolutely gotten this voluminous?”
Pricing has not been announced, but Motor Trend reports, “Subaru is hinting that it’ll be actual aggressive with its accepted levels. Which is a abridgement of upsizing we can all appreciate.”
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