nipper Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Dear Santa, i mean Subaru http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/08/2010-subaru-legacy-wagon-debuts-in-britain-no-yankee-not-for/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bheinen74 Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 sell it to US. please. thanks I will leave carrots for Rudolph, and a hooker for santa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairtax4me Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 It looks good, it's diesel, I want one. I don't even care if the wheel is on the wrong side. Hell it can't be that hard to make a diesel pass US emissions laws. Mercedes did it, and theirs even passed CA laws! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 It looks good, it's diesel, I want one. I don't even care if the wheel is on the wrong side. Hell it can't be that hard to make a diesel pass US emissions laws. Mercedes did it, and theirs even passed CA laws! Is is tough to make them pass emissions but that isnt the issue. As much as people yell and scream whenever the "A" word is mentioned, most people in the USA want automatics, and diesels dont have one yet (in subaru). Also not sure what the cost premium is for diesel in these tough times. Also MB has deeper pockets then subaru does for emission testing. Yes i am pro diesel but also a realist. Subaru already has one clunker on thier hands, lets not give them two, nipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoobySchmitty Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Did anyone watch that Top Gear episode where they all drove diesels 750 miles on one tank? Captain Slow was rocking the last gen Legacy Diesel and getting 50-60 mpg highway, insane! Though they commented that the boxer design makes for a very rattling, noisy diesel engine. And as far as the new Legacy wagons go, I'd be more outraged if I had the urge to drive around with Joan River's face on the front of my car. Those headlamps are ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forester2002s Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Take note that (in the UK news article) that there is a difference in gallons between the UK and USA. So the 43mpg quoted in the article presumably means 43 miles/Imperial Gallon. This translates to 34.4 miles/USgallon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted October 8, 2009 Author Share Posted October 8, 2009 EU also has a differnt MPG test then we do. In the real world on the outback list people are seeing mid 30's and high 40's in the diesel. nipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petersubaru Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I like the list of "standard" items which are "options" here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzam Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Having had 2 legacy wagons, 2 Outbacks and one Legacy sedan in the family I would be in line for another Legacy wagon as a first choice when I walk into the dealer. I don't always want an Outback. Didn't SOA meet fleet EPA requirements by increasing the clearance on the Outback so it would be in the light truck category? Could this be why they're skipping over the US for a "regular" wagon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 http://www.edf.org/documents/3560_NYTimes_011204.pdf Oddly I cant find a clearcut definition of an SUV aside from weight class. nipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durania Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 (edited) Man, that's not fair. Edited October 9, 2009 by Durania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzam Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 2 interesting points in that story: "Subaru executives noted that the sedan version of the Outback accounts for only about 8 percent of the model's sales, or about 3,500 vehicles a year; the rest are wagons." If that's true for the Outbacks did it include Legacy models also? Maybe SOA will be phasing out the Legacy sedan? and "There are different ways to make a car meet the federal definition of a light truck, including making the rear seats removable to give a wagon a flat loading floor or raising a vehicle's ground clearance to at least 20 centimeters, or a little less than 8 inches. Subaru will raise the Outback's height from a minimum of 7.3 inches to as much as 8.7 inches next year, and will make other adjustments, like altering the position of the rear bumper, to meet light truck specifications." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nipper Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 2 interesting points in that story: "Subaru executives noted that the sedan version of the Outback accounts for only about 8 percent of the model's sales, or about 3,500 vehicles a year; the rest are wagons." If that's true for the Outbacks did it include Legacy models also? Maybe SOA will be phasing out the Legacy sedan? and "There are different ways to make a car meet the federal definition of a light truck, including making the rear seats removable to give a wagon a flat loading floor or raising a vehicle's ground clearance to at least 20 centimeters, or a little less than 8 inches. Subaru will raise the Outback's height from a minimum of 7.3 inches to as much as 8.7 inches next year, and will make other adjustments, like altering the position of the rear bumper, to meet light truck specifications." Keep in mind that was dated 2004. nipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StructEngineer Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 That thing looks like a KIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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