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the new Subaru Legacy goes head-to-head with other mid-size sedans like the Toyota Camry and the Ford Fusion but then it gives you something more let's check the tech in the 2015 Subaru Legacy for 2015 Subaru completely redesigned its midsize sedan legacy model but being a Subaru it also comes standard with all-wheel-drive and it's got something called active torque vectoring really quarter braking it breaks the inside wheels during the turn to get you around that corner a little bit better and also optionally it's got the eyesight system these are these cameras looking through the front windshield stereoscopic cameras that see the vehicles ahead of you and work for adaptive cruise control and collision braking they can give you a warning before you're gonna hit something ahead of you now let's take a look and see what's under the hood now here we have a 2.5 liter four-cylinder engine that does 175 horsepower 174 pounds feet of torque but in Subaru style it's actually a flat floor that means the cylinders are horizontally opposed across the crankshaft and that means the center of gravity sits a little bit lower than a car with an inline for sticking up for fuel economy this engine gets to the legacy 26 miles per gallon city 36 miles per gallon highway those are pretty good numbers now you can also get a 3.6 liter 6 cylinder engine same flat configuration that does 256 horsepower so in the cabin here we have the optional navigation system that's it entirely means 6.2 inch touchscreen right here this is what I feel like a lot of car infotainment systems are gonna go towards is having these equally sized icons for the different functions we go to info and then we get information sources they're brought in through Sirius XM satellite radio so we have sports scores weather stocks fuel prices that's really useful and we also have an eco monitor in a vehicle monitor some useful stuff to see how the car is performing I would go back to them so when we go to the map here we see the navigation system so this is a flash memory-based navigation system it works really fast I've been pleased seeing how quickly I can move the map around it refreshes pretty quickly we also get traffic here and it'll automatically reroute you around traffic problems and this car has voice command too and the voice command is really good so I can say just a string of an address all in one piece and it'll take it in it's been really accurate about interpreting that for the audio sources here I've actually got two USB ports in this little bin here I also have Bluetooth audio so I can just jump in the car and have a plane off my phone although you don't get you can't browse the music library through the interface when you're doing Bluetooth audio you have to call it the music on your phone we still have a CD player in this car too and then of course I got satellite radio as well so we have the shifter on the console right here there is also a manual setting and now I actually have paddle shifters here these paddle shifters are standard on all legacy so that's actually a nice feature takes you through six virtual gears on the continuously variable transmission those are just ship points that they program in so you can kind of control what the engine is doing all right I'm driving the legacy with the adaptive cruise control on this is using the two cameras that are mounted over the dashboard they're taking a stereoscopic image of the cars in front of me I'm set for 65 miles per hour right now but because there's traffic in front of me the car is slowing down to their speed which right now is 60 and I've seen the system work really well under a wildly different conditions at night time it was able to detect motorcyclists and any cars in front of me this thing will bring you to a full stop so this eyesight systems really impressive now it beeped a couple of times because traffic stopped abruptly and that's sort of your collision warning but it handled at all I'm not touching the pedals right now and it is accelerating braking doing everything I need it to do at any speed as far as the driving character goes it's really a very easy car to drive and that's the characteristic of a midsize today I'm the 2.5 liter engine is fine for this car it it's enough power for everything I need to do and I've driven this car pretty far so it handled it well now let's price out our 2015 subaru legacy for this premium prim model it's 23 495 base but to go really CNET style we want to go up to the limited trim which has the Harman Kardon audio system that's 26 495 base and then we add one package that package includes navigation and the eyesight adaptive cruise control system that adds 2990 for a total width destination of thirty thousand two hundred eighty