RIP Subaru Legacy

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For those of you who don't know, Subaru has ended production of the Legacy. I mentioned this earlier in the year on the main website, but didn't post about it here. Yet.

Regular Car Reviews is a favorite for several reasons. Unapologetic, oddball, crass, queer, and incredibly well written.

The Roman started doing a series recently where he just talks about cars, and this video is about some of the noteworthy vehicles which stopped production in 2025, including the Legacy. He does an admirable job of explaining what the Legacy was, why it was important for the brand, and what it leaves behind:

https://youtu.be/e8irDCrXBbM?t=2018

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Dropping in real quick to put my $0.02 in, even as someone who doesn't even own a Subaru anymore

I personally don't like it, but what can I do? The paradigm is shifting.

There was a quip in a Hagerty article some months ago that says the universally generic English term "car" might no longer refer to the same thing anymore, and I see their point.

For essentially as long as anyone currently on this planet has been alive, the term "car" has referred to the three-box sedan.

The sedan was "car," and anything other than the three-box sedan was a deviation. A coupe or a wagon are still cars, but the image that instantly appeared in most people's minds when the term "car" was said to them was a sedan.

Now, the term "car" at its most fundamental meaning might actually refer to the crossover... and the sedan is now the deviation, like a coupe or wagon, etc.

The #1 selling vehicle in the USA at least (if not most developed markets) is now a crossover, and I'd even argue now that most sedans aren't even really sedans anymore, like we would think of when the 1st-gen Legacy was new. The average 'sedan' is now more of a 4-door coupe than a three-box sedan, as evidenced by Audi discontinuing the A4 and now the A5 Sportback now being their primary compact 4-door 'sedan.' Also, look at the current Accord, or a Mercedes-Benz C-Class, or the now discontinued Volkswagen Arteon.

Now volume seller sedans like the Civic, the Corolla, the Accord and Camry... they can survive if they fall down a few notches as crossovers claim their territory at the top of the mountain.

Cars like the Subaru Legacy (and let's not forget, the Subaru Impreza sedan, which also disappeared for 2024) cannot.