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**IRMartin** · 08-23-2009, 12:37 PM

I love my Subarus like the next guy, it's all I drive... but to compare a 1991 Legacy turbo with this new Taurus is like apples and oranges. Your car weighs 1,200lbs less from the factory, has 200hp less from the factory, a manual transmission, and 1.4L less displacement from the factory. There is little surprise it has a better fuel economy. It's going to take more than a little work to make that car push the kind of power the Taurus is pushing, and when it is finally pushing that power, expect fuel economy less than the Taurus. I love Subarus, it's all I drive, but a 1991 Legacy is not really much of a comparison.

The sad part is that it won't take that much work any more,now that there's a company thatis offering a chip for them..well close to that much power anyway,maybe not exactly.

FE doesn't sink that dramatically either from what I can ascertain from people who've already done it.

The weight is what the main culprit is,which was my point,that car is as heavy as yesteryears suv's,undoubtedly if they focused more on lightening the monster up it would get better fe than 25mp from a far more sophisticated engine than was available in anything even just ten years ago...and it would undoubtedly perform better,with less hp too if it didn't weigh over two tons.

08-23-2009, 12:37 PM	#14
IRMartin Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	I love my Subarus like the next guy, it's all I drive... but to compare a 1991 Legacy turbo with this new Taurus is like apples and oranges. Your car weighs 1,200lbs less from the factory, has 200hp less from the factory, a manual transmission, and 1.4L less displacement from the factory. There is little surprise it has a better fuel economy. It's going to take more than a little work to make that car push the kind of power the Taurus is pushing, and when it is finally pushing that power, expect fuel economy less than the Taurus. I love Subarus, it's all I drive, but a 1991 Legacy is not really much of a comparison. The sad part is that it won't take that much work any more,now that there's a company thatis offering a chip for them..well close to that much power anyway,maybe not exactly. FE doesn't sink that dramatically either from what I can ascertain from people who've already done it. The weight is what the main culprit is,which was my point,that car is as heavy as yesteryears suv's,undoubtedly if they focused more on lightening the monster up it would get better fe than 25mp from a far more sophisticated engine than was available in anything even just ten years ago...and it would undoubtedly perform better,with less hp too if it didn't weigh over two tons.
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