Here is the new Subaru Legacy, flying the flag once again for Subaru's faith in a flat-four engine and four-wheel drive. Look at it, and straight away you can see it's got problems. It is longer, wider, taller, bigger in every way than the old one, although the old one was plenty big enough for nearly every purpose. Now has become just inconveniently bulky. Like estate cars wearing Mondeo or Insignia badges, the Legacy now needs to be berthed rather than merely parked.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/road-tests/subaru-le...
"So why has Subaru killed the goose? Maybe the US market still needs
hefty cars, and Subaru is big in the US."
That the English have poor understanding of
European trends is understandable- isolation
on the island, lack of command of any foreign
languages, etc., but that they have no idea
what is happening in their colonies, or former
colonies, ...this is inexcusable and likely
points to some other more complex problem.
The Legacy is not only ugly, ...it is plain vulgar!
Why such a repulsive design?
Because Americans are downsizing from large
and most ugly domestic SUV's and trucks,
(see Dodge products for example), to regular
'civilized' cars. But this downsizing is a process,
and takes time. The first step seems to call for
a hybrid type design that fuses the looks of a
truck-SUV and a regular civilized sedan, or coupe
- that is why you see Americans demand
such weird cars, with ugly truck like features,
overblown wheel arches, generic nose design,
etc.
In a few years these monstrosities will most likely
be gone. Lets hope! They will become a legacy
to be forgotten as fast as possible.
Bashia
