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Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:54 am**

OK, did a search, but every term was to broad or came up with nothing.

I was looking for pictures of the Forester STi and stumbled across this...

Was there STi involvement in the Sport Sedan and Touring Wagon?

Just kinda curious, that's all.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:57 am**

yeh i've always wondered bout that because i pulled a picture off the net with an RS but an STi logo in the top corner of the pic?
hmmm

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:56 am**

The first STi ever made was a BC5 Legacy. Thats cause the impreza was realeased 4 years after the intorduction of the Legacy in 1989. There were 2 factory types, type R and Type RA. Type R had some suspension tuning and stiffeneing. Whereas the RS has Engine mods, tranny changes, and even stiffer suspension then the type R. Noodles, living in Australia, you should have seen an Sti BC Legacy, There are a few owners on the Liberty RS forum.

Mark,

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:03 pm**

So what you are saying is that STi produced the BC5, while the rest of the legacies came in the Type R (suspension modded) and the Type RS (which is the USDM Turbo?)

Basically saying that STi was the influence for the RS, but had no actual hand in tuning it.

Sort of how SVT kind of gave the idea for the Taurus SHO, but never actually had any hand in it at all.

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:46 pm**

the bc5 is the non-usdm legacy i believe the 5 means 2.0liter usdm legacies should be bc6 6 meaning 2.2 liter The RS is what the legacy is called in aus, liberty rs. There is also a legacy RS in japan and i believe europe. Then there are modified versions of the legacy RS. Those being the RS-R and RS-RA. The R only having minor suspention mods as legacyt said, and the RA having more mods and 3 other revisions a b c and d. The RA stands for record attempt and is based on the legacy that set the speed record back in 89 or whatever. Read more about it here: http://www.decal-co.com/out-flat/variation-e.html

here's a babelfist for the last section: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... _en&tt=url

Posted: **Fri Mar 12, 2004 11:06 pm**

the A, B, C, D were designations for model year (and revision). A being 1989, D being 1992-1993, B and C the years in between. STi didn't make the Legacy RS, those were normal cars like any legacy made by Subaru, but STi had versions of the Legacy RS, just like the STi version of the impreza wrx you can now buy in north america.

Mark,

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:43 am**

So was Australia the only continent where the Legacy was known as the Liberty?

-Brian

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:33 am**

yup.

Mark

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:46 am**

I think it's also called the Liberty in New Zealand, but I'm not sure.

The name change had to do with the fact that there's a big association in Australia called Legacy which supports families of members of the military who died in service.

Personally, I think the name "Liberty" is cooler. Too bad now Jeep took the name in North America.

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:52 am**

new zealand is part of the continent that is australia

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:06 am**

Oh, right...

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:17 am**

A friend in Tokyo has that catalog, and offered it to me when i was over there, but i never got around to getting it from him.

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:14 pm**

Its called Legacy in New Zealand.

Mark

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:47 pm**

it would be cool to re-badge a legacy with the more rare "liberty" badging.

-Mike

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:14 pm**

I'd rather just have the liberty

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:33 pm**

THAWA wrote:I'd rather just have the liberty

Or you could just build one, like me...

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:56 pm**

yeah but that requires space time and a spare car, none of which i have

Posted: **Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:11 pm**

And a true Liberty is right hand drive

Mark

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STi involvement?

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