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My mate is looking to buy a 04/05 Legacy Spec B - after having BMW's for years.

Prices seem to be down around the £8k-£10k mark for a 2-3 year old machine with average miles.

Anything to look out for in particular? Decent enough performing machines?

Cheers
Richard.

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They are a nice enough car. Smooth and with good handling. I rather fancy one myself. A friend had one for about 6 months and liked it a lot.
The downside is that they tend to be VERY thirsty - he was routinely getting sub-20mpg. A lot of the parts (exhaust, dampers, steering parts) are unique to the car (parts from other Legacies, Imprezas won't fit) and so expensive.
My mate sold at 6 months on account of the running costs and bought a BMW 330D, which was much cheaper to run. He made the comment to me that you see very few Spec B's on the road, but quite a lot for sale. With current fuel and road tax prices they must be dropping in value like a block of concrete, so if you do go for one you should haggle VERY hard and only pay rock-bottom.

Scotsman

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Ta for the advice. I'll pass it on!

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Tosh.

My Legacy GT Spec B WR Ltd is For Sale in Litchfields. I could easily get 30+mpg. Many parts are the same as the UK Legacy, also many parts from the New Impreza are the same, air box, plastic inlet manifold etc (let's not forget these have been on the Legacy for 4 years now).

Awesome spec, scared the Germans on the motorway and the insurnace was the same as my modded UK Wagon. easily modded to 330bhp/350ftlbs of torque.

My homelife changed so I changed it. Otherwise I would have it now.

Scotsman

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Just looked at your car on Litchfields - stunning machine!

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The JDM Legacy GT Spec B WR Ltd is a totally different beast to the UK-market model though. The UK model is 3 litre 6-cyl with 6-speed box and no turbo. I'd imagine they'd drive very differently.

scooby L

I had a 54 UK spec B touring

Superb spec with the Sat Nav (same as new STI) full leather, cruise control, electric & heated front seats, 6 speed box, 18" Spec B Alloys and an amazing engine, very very smooth right up to red line..in fact the power delivery was so smooth I'd hit the limiter in 3rd sometimes because it was still pulling hard at 7k and the engine was just sooo quiet and eager.

Aveage mpg was 26-30

Loved it... awesome luxury stealth machine.

I drove down to St Tropez (1200 miles) and stepped out as if it had been 2 miles, very comfortable and quiet.

I did look at the JDM twin scroll, but my local importer wanted £31k for their Leggy Touring, with no leather, no sat nav, no 6 speed, 17" alloys etc... the UK was £27k OTR ... so was no contest. The JDM is a quicker car... but 0-60 in 7 secs is plenty for 99% of the time,and the tourqe of the 3.0L more than made up for the lack of turbo boost.

Scotsman

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Thanks for the write-up and pics - comfy looking motor!

scooby L

Not as Hard Core as Dragoon's... but no slouch either.

I've driven both the JDM and the UK cars... the JDM drives like all Subaru Turbo'd cars... with power building majorly as the revs increase.. the UK 3.0L just pulls relentlessly from 1000 rpms.... much more relaxing I found, hense (along with the price and toys) I chose the UK car.

Nice motor btw BD.... that's a well spec'd up JDM

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I want to know how you get 30mpg out of these cars. The one my mate had never did more than about 25mpg (according to him) and dropped to sub-20mpg in town. When I drove it you could almost see the needle dropping!

scooby L

30mpg was on the m-way at 70mph for 130 miles

My normal average was 26 (bit of m-way and village lanes)

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As above. Easy

aggs

My Father in Law has got one. (Estate)
Looks so cool in dark blue with the 18 alloys.
It s a cracking car both looks and ability.
Prodrive rear silencers give a nice burble.

I would love to own one some time in the future.