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2005 Subaru Legacy and Outback: Sweet
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Edmunds.com review: 2005 Legacy and Outback
Dang, for a preliminary "First Drive" review it's longer than many of their full road-test reviews!
Sounds like Subaru got it right ... if I were car-shopping this summer instead of last summer I'd take a good long look at a Legacy GT turbo wagon. Sweet!
Although ... what's up with no premium stereo available in the GT?  Hello, aftermarket.
Unfortunately they stayed pretty conservative on the Legacy exterior styling:
The Outback almost looks better to me (and this is from someone who is not a fan of the current stodgy Outback):
Anyway ... they're supposed to be arriving at dealers by the end of the month. I might have to test-drive a GT just for the heck of it! 
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Hrmm... it's nice but the front could have been a little more.. unique.  All the cars seem to look the same nowadays.
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They let some SVX drivers test drive them in Reading PA a few weeks back. I guess they're pretty cool.
>shrug<
- Ca$h
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More better.
- Ca$h
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The turbo Legacies are finally hitting NA shores. After selling my JDM Legacy B4 RSK (turbo) when I moved back from Tokyo earlier this year, this is probably the best news I've heard in a while!
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
They look ugly IMHO.
What Zimph said.
Oh. And we need to execute all the headlight designers to make way for some new ones who might actually have a clue.
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Originally posted by legacyb4:
The turbo Legacies are finally hitting NA shores. After selling my JDM Legacy B4 RSK (turbo) when I moved back from Tokyo earlier this year, this is probably the best news I've heard in a while!
Turbo legacys have been here a long time.. the last gen lacked turbos, but 1st gens had them.
- Rob
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Originally posted by selfabduction68:
More better.
- Ca$h
Is it just that you prefer the sedan over the wagon? I dunno, the lighting in that pic makes it look sleeker, but here it still looks kind of 1990s Accord-like:
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Does sub have something against coupes?
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Originally posted by CaseCom:
Is it just that you prefer the sedan over the wagon? I dunno, the lighting in that pic makes it look sleeker, but here it still looks kind of 1990s Accord-like:
kinda looks like an older model saab to me. i like it.
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Originally posted by Zimphire:
Does sub have something against coupes?
Nope. I own one. 
- Rob
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Originally posted by selfabduction68:
More better.
- Ca$h
Omg. Ford being more eurostyle in their car concepts.
YAYYY
I just HATE american trash � la GM.
Oops is this subaru or ford ? 
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It's a Subaru. The other blue oval logo.
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Originally posted by ambush:
Omg. Ford being more eurostyle in their car concepts.
YAYYY
I just HATE american trash � la GM.
Oops is this subaru or ford ?
What a dumbass. Hey ambush, how about you start some more topics about 15 yr old whores?
- Ca$h
PS: Your country would be nothing without america, despite what you would like to believe.
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Originally posted by selfabduction68:
*snip*
More better.
- Ca$h
Bad-ass. I'm thinking my next car purchase might be a Subaru.
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I prefer a Subaru sedan than the wagon..
There is be a Legacy STi here, right?
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Originally posted by Kenneth:
I prefer a Subaru sedan than the wagon..
There is be a Legacy STi here, right?
No. (not in these pics).
There is an STi here in the states, yes.
- Rob
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These are the subies that got reclassified as "light trucks" or "SUVs" to evade fuel economy standards, no?
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I like the new outback, better than the current model anyway. It's more sleek, more like the old one I have. I'm glad to see that when I'm on the market again, I'll be able to find a used 05...
the new legacy looks more or less like every other wagon out there though.
and that new sedan is HAWT.
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Originally posted by Timo:
These are the subies that got reclassified as "light trucks" or "SUVs" to evade fuel economy standards, no?
That's the forrester, and it's not to evade fuel economy standards, it's to sell... they advertise it as an SUV that gets great gas mileage, when in fact it's just a station wagon with a taller suspension.
- Rob
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Originally posted by Timo:
These are the subies that got reclassified as "light trucks" or "SUVs" to evade fuel economy standards, no?
That was the Outback. The Outback sedan was the one that drew all the outrage, even though they sell only about eight of them per year.
http://autonet.ca/AutonetStories/Sto...?StoryID=10740
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Originally posted by selfabduction68:
That's the forrester, and it's not to evade fuel economy standards, it's to sell... they advertise it as an SUV that gets great gas mileage, when in fact it's just a station wagon with a taller suspension.
- Rob
That's what I always thought about SUVs. I have this thing for hummers though because they remind me of brinks trucks
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They still look aweful. Good cars, but worst styling ever.
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