2020 Subaru Legacy GT Premier Review: The Return of the Turbo Does it a World of Good

Although the photos you see here, taken in December 2019, show a 2020 Subaru Legacy GT Premier surrounded by asphalt, most of my week in in and around Montreal was spent driving on road surfaces that were both icy and snowy - an ideal playground for testing the latest generation of the Japanese automaker’s trusty sedan.

Subaru is back this year with a seventh-generation model, a confident move given the decline of the category the Legacy competes in, in both the U.S. and Canada. In fact, while we applaud the arrival of a Nissan Altima with all-wheel drive (in 2019) and soon a Toyota Camry with similar drivetrain (in the spring of 2020), the Subaru Legacy has been coming standard with constant-gear four-wheel drive since the late 1980s.

And yet, despite this undeniable and for a long time unique quality, Subaru's representative in this once-popular category has never managed to break into the top 5 of the top-selling mid-size sedans in North America.

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The brand's commitment (stubbornness?) in pursuing the Legacy adventure is likely due mainly to the success of the other Legacy-connected model, the technically similar Subaru Outback, which pushed the Legacy wagon into retirement (in our market anyways at least) after the 2009 model year, let's not forget. Since then, the elevated wagon has been a favourite choice of families looking for a vehicle that's practical, comfortable and capable of handling just about any winter condition.

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