Subaru
Among the 108 Subaru entries in the MotorJury library, the Subaru Legacy (second generation) holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1993. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Subaru Legacy (second generation) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz E-Class, the GM (General Motors) Hummer H1, the Renault Renault Twingo — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Subaru Legacy (second generation) reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ20 / EJ20 Flat-four engine / H4 / 2.0 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ20 / EJ20 DOHC H4 / 2.2 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ22 / EJ22 H4 / 2.5 L Subaru EJ engine#EJ25 / EJ25 D; kerb weight is recorded at 3135 lb max; drive goes through 4-speed automatic / 5-speed manual; the layout is FF layout 1993–1995 standard continued to be standard until 1999 in Japan and Europe / F4 layout 1995 optional, continued to be optional until 1999 in Japan and Europe / 1996 & up,. 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.
Within Subaru's own catalogue the Subaru Legacy (second generation) sits alongside the Subaru Chiffon, the Subaru Lucra, the Subaru Pleo Plus, the 2000-2007 Subaru Impreza. The record names the Subaru Legacy (first generation) as its predecessor and the Subaru Legacy (third generation) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Olivier Boulay (1991).
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.
A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Subaru Legacy (second generation) was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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