It's a long way from the rugged, agricultural cars of Subaru's 1970s youth to the company's current idealized self-image as a Japanese BMW." So reads the very first entry in our Subaru Legacy GT Limited wagon's logbook, which continues: "Nevertheless, the latest Legacy is a significant step in that direction."
Twelve months later, that sentiment still applies. If anything, the notion has only grown stronger. A big reason is that with this generation of the Legacy, the GT version has finally come into its own.
Of course, the arrival of the Impreza WRX and WRX STI got Subaru performance aspirations off with a bang, but the WRX would have remained an oddity in the lineup if the Legacy hadn't significantly increased its sport quotient.
Subaru had sold a GT version of the previous two Legacys, but it always seemed to be a model that the company gave little thought to, in contrast to the Outback, which completely overshadowed the rest of the Legacy line.
Indeed, we chose an Outback wagon the last time we ran a Four Seasons Legacy (in 1996). After we first became acquainted with the newest Legacy, however, we knew that this time, we wanted a GT for our long-term test.... Read full article