2015 Subaru Legacy: The Car Connection’s Best Car to Buy 2015

The 2015 Subaru Legacy is feature-packed, polished, secure, and spacious. It’s outgrown its niche appeal, while dollar for dollar, it’s an irresistible value in today’s new-car market. And it’s The Car Connection’s Best Car To Buy 2015.

The Legacy follows the 2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2012 Ford Focus, 2013 Ford Fusion, and most recently, the 2014 Subaru Forester as our top pick among the year’s entire crop of completely new or redesigned models. Simply put: Of what’s new this year, it represents the best value on the market.

We understand that value means something different depending on your own priorities; and to represent most of those priorities, we rank every new model we review in six key categories, to arrive at an Overall Rating that lets you quickly size up which models you should consider.

This year’s nominees included the Acura TLX, Ford F-150, Ford Mustang, Honda Fit, Hyundai Genesis, Hyundai Sonata, Lincoln MKC, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class, Subaru Legacy, and Subaru Outback.

And of all those, the 2015 Legacy is the one that we think you’d be remiss not to include on any value-minded sedan shopping list.

It wasn’t easy picking a winner this year. The 2015 Mercedes-Benz C-Class is one of the most tantalizing luxury-car values on the market—one with absolutely stunning styling, inside and out. And if you can stay resolved in getting only the base C300, the sticker price of just under $40,000 represents good value. Likewise, the Hyundai Genesis gets our top overall score among new models (8.8), and it’s a great all-around luxury car—provided you’re not too focused on the badge, or wanting things like a V-8 or all-wheel drive that make this a pricier and less agreeable car.

It’s the value factor that really nudges the Legacy ahead of every other contender—including those two models. For less than $23,000 you can get a solid mid-size sedan with all-wheel drive—an all-weather convenience that pushes you to a larger engine or a much higher sticker price in any rivals that DO offer it.

The top value of the lineup, as we see it, is the Legacy Premium four-cylinder model, optioned with EyeSight, the already top-rated accident avoidance system that now includes blind-spot monitoring, lane-departure warnings, and rear cross-traffic alerts. It’ll actually brake automatically in some situations to keep you safe and sound, and it even includes active cruise control and new steering-responsive fog lights—and that’s all for a sticker price that’s still under $26,000.

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Written by Bengt Halvorson for The Car Connection.