RE: Subaru Legacy 3.0R | Shed of the Week
Discussion
I'm on my third Gen 4 Legacy tourer.
It's a bog standard 2.0 RE, so slow, but they are a great car with excellent handling and a strange je ne sais quoi that you don't get until you have driven and lived with one.
There's a real depth of engineering integrity and genuine under the skin quality that you just don't get with an anodine VAG or other German offering (and I've had many of those)
Thisty and expensive to run but a deeply satisfying ownership experience nonetheless
It's a bog standard 2.0 RE, so slow, but they are a great car with excellent handling and a strange je ne sais quoi that you don't get until you have driven and lived with one.
There's a real depth of engineering integrity and genuine under the skin quality that you just don't get with an anodine VAG or other German offering (and I've had many of those)
Thisty and expensive to run but a deeply satisfying ownership experience nonetheless
BFleming said:
I genuinely love reading the comments about how people would buy this if it were more manual, more wagon, more JDM, more turbo, more closer* to them - but as far as SOTW goes, this is a cracker. This gen of Legacy is easy on the eye and a decent drive too. Get it bought, someone, if only for that phone holder.
* I know!
I have the newer shape. I prefer it. Serious machine in the snow though. * I know!
MDMA . said:
sinbaddio said:
cheesesliceking said:
OMFG WHY!
Shed, you've done this on purpose to trigger eric haven't you??
I've missed something - who's Eric?Shed, you've done this on purpose to trigger eric haven't you??
Brilliant shed!
t, he'll be along 
It's always a panic when you see a version of your own car in SOTW. Mine is a facelifted JDM 6spd manual Spec.B, so I'm hoping would stay of of Shed's firing range for a few years yet.
Can't see many reasons to avoid this shed, though, (lack of dog-friendly boot aside) if you're hunting in that price range. You could probably run it for a year and get your money back in 12 months.
Can't see many reasons to avoid this shed, though, (lack of dog-friendly boot aside) if you're hunting in that price range. You could probably run it for a year and get your money back in 12 months.
If it holds together a good shed, I was always told these were expensive by a certain enthusiast? Way faster and less German than a German car, if that’s a concern and being a manual, you won’t need to deal with troublesome gear changes. Just fit a dashcam and YouTube is your oyster so to speak.
janesmith1950 said:
Why would Eric sell his?
I suggested that he may want to get a big, torquey automatic so he could concentrate on improving his driving without also having to try to master the intricacies of changing gears manually.
Hopefully Eric isn't hogging the outside lane of the M27 during the Hants. police road offences crackdown fortnight.
Is the 'head gaskets are known to go' thing right? I've done a lot of research into this iteration of the Subaru flat 6 (as my car of the last three years has it too), and the firm consensus is that they're as bombproof an engine as you'll find this side of a Lexus. Subaru's 2.5 flat four is, by all accounts, another matter entirely.
While I really like my Outback of the same era and intend to keep it for a very long time, I'm not too sure who'd want an auto legacy saloon version. The running-cost-to-performance ratio isn't brilliant compared to other stuff you can get for the same money (largely thanks to the autobox which robs a hell of a lot of poke), and it has neither the practicality or the impressive off road ability of the Outback. Still, I suppose £1500 for something a bit leftfield with a lovely engine isn't bad if you're after limited mileage wafting.
While I really like my Outback of the same era and intend to keep it for a very long time, I'm not too sure who'd want an auto legacy saloon version. The running-cost-to-performance ratio isn't brilliant compared to other stuff you can get for the same money (largely thanks to the autobox which robs a hell of a lot of poke), and it has neither the practicality or the impressive off road ability of the Outback. Still, I suppose £1500 for something a bit leftfield with a lovely engine isn't bad if you're after limited mileage wafting.
I've just picked up my 06 B-spec from a service and MOT, this is a 14 year old car, not garaged and with 156,000 on the clock, so you'd expect some things wrong with it. The list was:
1. Tracking
2. Jammed CD player (secondhand replacement from Legacy forum £30)
3. Windscreen washer hose had some gunk in it
4. Needed new wiper on the tailgate.
And that was it. Total cost, fluids, service, MOT at a main dealer £410.
I do need to get the wheels refurbed and the stone chips touched up, but it's solid.
Simon
1. Tracking
2. Jammed CD player (secondhand replacement from Legacy forum £30)
3. Windscreen washer hose had some gunk in it
4. Needed new wiper on the tailgate.
And that was it. Total cost, fluids, service, MOT at a main dealer £410.
I do need to get the wheels refurbed and the stone chips touched up, but it's solid.
Simon
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