Subaru Legacy is The Worst Performing Carline - Is It Time To Drop The Sedan?

The 2023 is a refresh of the all-new 2020 generation. The development costs have already been amortized so it’s relatively easy to update the existing sedan. Subaru’s real commitment to the Legacy will come in 2024 for the 2025 model year when the Outback/Legacy series is due for its next major generational change. Subaru may then decide not to invest in a sedan and drop the Legacy entirely. A big clue to whether that happens will be with what Subaru decides to do with the all-new 2024 Impreza, coming out in 2023.

The last Subaru legacy was the BL model. The rest that followed after it were just useless. They had nothing to offer especially when they decided to do away with turbo.

Bring back the 3.6R and I'll buy another Legacy. Otherwise you'll have to pry my 2017 3.6R Limited out of my cold dead hands...

Subaru should consider adding a wagon variant to the Legacy line. I was forced to switch to the Outback when the Legacy wagon was dropped in 2007. It had more sport than the Outback as just as much utility. I would buy one just to avoid all the ugly black plastic cladding on all Outbacks.

The 2022 is a nightmare of poorly planned features. Engine braking doesn't turn off cruise, the seatbelt chime doesn't stop when the car is put in park, the chime to look for children in the backseat mutes whatever you're listening to whenever you turn off the car, the advanced headlight features don't work when headlights are switched to "on", the touchscreen is dangerous (have to take eyes off the road) and slows everything down by not allowing simultaneous inputs (passenger can't change the radio while the driver turns on seat heaters).

The last good Legacy was the bl/no or the last sporty one. Not the crossover pretending to be a sedan that it became in the generations after. Subaru really has no "mature" sporty cars to graduate too after owning a BRZ or WRX.

Hey you like sporty cars? Well guess what we have? A bunch of crossovers with CVTs and crossover sedan based off the Outback. Give us the sports oriented Legacy of old and not the SUV sedan crap.

Finding a Legacy on a Subaru dealer's lot or incoming inventory is basically impossible. I've got a nice '15 Limited with 68,000 miles (35 mpg highway) that I'd like to turn into a '23 Sport with Turbo before everything gets electrified. If I can't find one, I'm sure my present Legacy has another 100,000 miles--easy. A great car with terrific rear-seat legroom, huge trunk, and a good Eyesight system.
Oh, the reason I posted: There are no Legacies for sale because Subaru ISN'T building any. Dealers I've called say none are coming in.

Subaru dealers, like many major auto brands, have been running at close to 100% sales efficiency month over month for pushing a year and a half, meaning pretty much everything that hits the lot in a given month sells almost immediately. While I don't think anyone is going to claim that the Legacy is Subaru's hottest model or that the mid-size sedan segment is making a comeback, the reason Legacy sales have fallen has everything to do with production, not demand. We usually see about one Legacy for every 10-15 Outbacks and Foresters on most allocations, and the fact that customers who would buy a Legacy are instead purchasing a different Subaru model has more to do with the inability to wait 7 months for a car to come in than anything else.

-16+ years working for Subaru

I purchased a 2022 Subaru Legacy Premium and I love it. Maybe sales were down cause there were not too many available. I live in sanford Florida and had to go as far as west palm beach Florida to find the one I wanted. (Color, trim etc.)

Maybe they should go all in with a spec.b again with a real transmission. Hopefully they can actually have 23 Sports available. 22 Inventory is non existent