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08-07-2003, 09:08 AM
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Car and Driver article
I found this in the September issue of car and Driver. There is an nice article on page 38 about the new 2005 Legacy.
The second paragraph begins: "The only glamour puss ever seen exiting a Subaru assembly line was the SVX, an exotic GT coupe in the 200-hp range that suffered through four unloved years in the first half of the 1990s. Add it all up, and total sales never rose above five digits. Maybe some folks just didn't want a car whose windows appeared to have weld seams running through the middle of them. Being eccentric ourselves, we of course loved it. Hearing this recently, a Subaru executive responded, "Everyone loved the SVX as soon as we discontinued it." So now the Legacy, which has competed as a sober-faced all-wheel-drive sedan and wagon and carried the burden of being the corporate flagship since it was introduced in 1989, has been given leading-man looks and some GT firepower that the SVX would have, well, died for." Interesting to see the SVX mentioned in more depth in an article about another car than the blip in DRIVE magazine. Looks like the legacy is going to be something to reckon with... (and our friends in japan who get the 2.0 liter turbo with 280 hp... wow!
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