Video: 2020 Subaru Legacy: First Look – Cars.com

It sits on an all new platform. Now it may not look all that different, but then the story with Subaru has never really been about the styling. It's all about what's under the hood. It's all about the safety features and they've updated both on this excellent new Legacy. There are three parts to the Legacy story for 2020. First part is what's under the hood. The standard engine is a 2.5 liter flat four cylinder engine making 182 horsepower. It's made it up to a continuously variable transmission and of course the standard Subaru all-wheel drive. But the big news for 2020 is the return of the turbo. You can get the new Legacy in the XT trim level, in which case you're gonna get a 2.4 liter turbo charged boxer for a cylinder engine making 260 horsepower. It too has made it up to a continuously variable transmission. It too has all-wheel drive just like just about every other Subaru you can buy. The second part of the Legacy story is in here. Now you can get the turbo engine with the two top trim levels, the limited and the touring. This one is the touring and it's got a couple of really interesting features. First and foremost, there's this thing, it's an 11.6 inch vertical touch screen. It could be split into two so that you can get two different pieces of media on the screen at the same time and it's got Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as well. But you also get some really nice Napa leather in this top touring model. Subaru's really trying to up its game at the high end of the segment to compete with things like Mazda. And the third part of the Legacy story is safety of course. Subaru's known for having very safe vehicles and there are two new features in the 2020 Legacy that are aiming to up that game even further. They've got a new distraction mitigation system called Driver Focus. It uses a couple of cameras in the dash to warn you if you're not paying enough attention. If your eyes are leaving the road, maybe you're using your phone, which you shouldn't be doing, it'll yell at you. Subaru has also introduced a lane centering function for the eyesight system new for the 2020 Legacy. Eyesight uses cameras and sensors to bring things like forward collision warning and automatic emergency breaking to the party. Now we don't have any pricing yet for the 2020 Legacy, that's gonna be coming later on this year closer to its on sale date. Which will be in the later part of 2019, probably right around the summer. If you'd like to learn more about the new 2020 Subaru Legacy look everything up at cars.com/news.