Agree, price isn’t bad, but it also isn’t good. If there was wiggle room and you could get a clean bill of health and settle in the $8,500 range I think it is a NP.
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Maybe worth it for BMW nerds but nope from me.
I remember driving one of these brand new and it wasn’t better performing(acceleration and handling) than the Infiniti G35 of the same vintage. The ZHP package, felt at the time, as a bit of a performance stop gap because there were was a lot of competition at the time…
A friend of mine has the sedan version of this car - it’s a great car. Fun to drive and reasonably powerful. His has even been reliable (Subaru is probably the only company where the turbos are more powerful than the NA versions).
The only complaint I’d have with his car is that it’s not a wagon. This car fixes that.…
I agree with you that $8,500, but as renegade said, saying there's nothing special isn't exactly accurate. It's basically a WRX powertrain in a wagon. Goes like stink while flying under the radar of police and insurance rates.
Easy NP. Yes, it has >100K miles, but the car seems well-cared for and it’s a SUBARU STICK SHIFT GT. It’ a hoot to drive.
NP. That’s super low miles for a stock suby. Lots of life left and pretty clean for its age.
first question - last of a breed. Manual, AWD, wagon are pretty much gone over here so scarcity breeds value
Nothing at all special?
Absolutely NP all day long.
NP. Probably the best generation of the Legacy and fun car to drive.
As someone who owns a turbocharged Subaru and has replaced the motor a few times, this is a NP. Clean exterior and interior. Seems to be family owned. Doing a swap once the inevitable happens would be a hair easier than my 2004 WRX as well. Perfect for a daily driver. Again, I say NP.
The current Legacy is already that or do you just need the black plastic cladding?
The Subaru Legacy barely sells. Subaru does call it the SUV of sedans though. Maybe Toyota wants some of the same success?
Just pointing out the fact that a lot Schumacher’s stats were padded. Especially those Ferrari years. Therefore, maybe not the best example to demonstrate what a dominant driver in F1 looks like.
Having a veto over the driver you drive with is different than contractually having to pull to side of the road or block the rest of the field, to let your teammate win from the first race of the season.
Ferrari literally contractually obligated Schumi’s driving partners(Irvine, Barrichello and Massa) to cede to him. The FIA came up with a rule in 2003 to stop team orders after the 2002 Austrian GP fiasco. However, teams(*cough* mostly Ferrari) just used coded messages to organize the finishing order.
Okay, my point is that a bigger battery pack, like what a truck would use, takes more C02 to make. When a truck like the Hummer is using a battery pack that is some 7 times bigger than found in most small EV passenger cars. The things you’re stating don’t really apply because they’re based on the assumptions of using…
I wonder if the C02 savings for EV trucks are that much?
That huge 200kWh 3000lb Hummer EV battery must take 15-20 tons of C02 to make. IIRC, a 75kWh battery takes like 5-8 tons of CO2 to make depending on where it is produced in the world. I don’t even think those numbers include the CO2 from mining either.
That’s a suspiciously low price on that car, I would expect to pay at least 50-60% more for that car, in stock condition, with that mileage. That probably would still be a great price considering what clapped out WRXs are going for.
I rented one of these cars once. I loved it. Just the perfect size for a sports sedan, super tossable, and the last gen before they injected it with hormones and made the legacy twice the size and fugly.