Subaru announced that Legacy will be discontinued after the end of the 2025 model year. The Japanese car brand is gearing up to stop selling the slow-selling four-door sedan and turn its focus to electrified products as well as SUVs and crossovers. Subaru Legacy has also been sold domestically; The 2025 Legacy will be available in the U.S. at the same starting price ($26,015) as the 2024 model, including $1,120 shipping, and the entire line will be equipped with Subaru's EyeSight technology.
With the launch of the seventh-generation model, sales of Legacy began to stagnate in 2020 and have hovered around 25,000 units per year since then. The launch of the new model comes at a time when the model is no longer available in Japan and Australia due to disappointing sales.
Legacy has seen solid growth in the U.S. market in 2023, with a 12.9% increase in sales. However, as of the first three months of 2024, sales of Legacy models have fallen by 13.1%. Its most recent sales high was in 2016, with a total of 65,306 units sold.
Subaru introduced Legacy in 1989, becoming its first model produced in the United States. Since then, the Japanese automaker has produced every Legacy sold to the U.S. at its plant in Lafayette, Indiana, and has sold more than 1.3 million vehicles in the U.S. over 35 years.
Subaru previously announced that it will launch eight EVs in its product line by 2028, so we suspect that the gap in the lineup will soon be filled by an all-electric vehicle.