The Subaru Legacy will cease production at the end of the 2025 model year. The automaker is discontinuing the slow-selling sedan as it focuses on electrifying its lineup, it announced Tuesday. The 2025 Legacy will go on sale for the same starting price as the 2024 car – $26,015, including $1,120 destination charge – with Subaru’s EyeSight technology standard across the lineup.
Sales of older models began to stagnate in 2020 with the launch of the seventh generation model, hovering around 25,000 sales per year since then. The launch of the new model coincided with its discontinuation of sales in Japan and Australia due to disappointing sales.
The Legacy had a strong 2023 in the United States, with sales increasing 12.9%. However, sales of the car have already declined by 13.1% in the first three months of 2024. Its most recent sales record was in 2016, with 65,306 Legacy models sold.
Subaru introduced the Legacy in 1989, becoming its first American-built model. Since then, the automaker has built every U.S.-bound Legacy at its Lafayette, Indiana, factory, selling more than 1.3 million models domestically in 35 years.
Subaru previously announced that it would have eight electric vehicles in its lineup by 2028, so we think the Legacy-sized hole in its lineup will be filled sooner rather than later by something fully electric.