Subaru Legacy (fourth generation)

The Subaru Legacy (fourth generation) is one of 108 Subaru models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2003. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Subaru Legacy (fourth generation) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mazda Mazda RX-8, the Bentley Bentley Continental GT, the Mazda Mazda3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Subaru Legacy (fourth generation) reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0L SOHC EJ20 H4 / 2.0L DOHC EJ20 H4 / 2.0L DOHC Turbo EJ20 H4 / 2.0L DOHC Turbodiesel EE20 H4 / 2.5L SOHC EJ253 H4 / 2.5L DOHC Turbo EJ255 H4 / 3.0L EZ30 DOHC H6; kerb weight is recorded at 2900-3200 lb; drive goes through 4-speed automatic / 5-speed automatic / 5-speed manual / 6-speed manual; the layout is All-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Subaru story

Within Subaru's own catalogue the Subaru Legacy (fourth generation) sits alongside the Subaru Chiffon, the Subaru Lucra, the Subaru Pleo Plus, the 2000-2007 Subaru Impreza. The record names the Subaru Legacy (third generation) as its predecessor and the Subaru Legacy (fifth generation) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Toru Ozeki (exterior: 2000) / Hiroyuki Kobayashi (exterior: 2000) / Fumio Wakao (chief exterior designer: 1999-2004) / Ken Nakao (exterior clay modeler: 2000-01) / Tadan Sugiyama (.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Subaru Legacy (fourth generation) costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.