Posted Friday, July 25, 2025 at 10:26pm
While automotive manufacturers tend to remain secretive when it comes to sharing the special sauce that makes their respective models their own, every now and again they understand that working with another established brand can be a worthwhile exercise in shifting some more hardware. Porsche has been involved in many of these different collaborations, and in the late 1990s, it decided to add the Subaru Legacy to its list of projects.
The call Porsche got was different from the one it usually received, as Subaru wasn’t interested in its engineering prowess. The marque was confident enough in its own capabilities from this standpoint, and it instead sought Porsche’s influence from a purely aesthetic perspective. Subaru felt its homegrown fans would relish having a special version of the Legacy that boasted a more Eurocentric silhouette, and thus Porsche was contracted to tweak the Legacy’s exterior and cabin to set it apart from the normal Legacy.
