AFTER A LONG run of leaked images and artist’s impressions, followed by an international unveiling at the New York Motor Show, the 2010 Subaru Liberty is now here in Australia and on sale.

As with others in its market segment, the Honda Accord Euro and Mazda6, the new Liberty has grown in size.

Now 6mm longer, 90mm [...]

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SUBARU’S LATEST Liberty and Outback  family cars have passed ANCAP’s rigorous crash testing program with flying colours, each scoring a full 5-Star safety rating.

Both Liberty and Outback received 34.8 points out of a possible 37 for occupant protection, and also scored three out of four stars in pedestrian impact testing.

Both cars scored highly thanks [...]

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ALL DUE IN AUSTRALIAN showrooms in the near future, a flotilla of new models have been awarded 5-Star crash test scores by Euro NCAP, the European equivalent of the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

The 2010 Kia Sorento, scheduled for an Australian launch this year, achieved an 87 percent score for Adult Occupant Protection, [...]

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Around this time last month, the first images of the 2010 Subaru Liberty Touring - sold just about everywhere else as the Legacy - made their way online. Now, the Japanese-market version of Subaru’s new wagon has had a proper reveal.

The Australian-delivered model will be based on the Japanese version, so if you’re in the [...]

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Well folks, we can probably expect to hear of Mr De Niro’s retirement in the next couple of days. After all, now that he’s starred in a television commercial for the Japanese version of the upcoming 2010 Subaru Liberty (sold overseas as the Legacy), what’s left to achieve?

You might think it’s an odd pairing, but [...]

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Having seen the Liberty/Legacy-based 2010 Subaru Outback in all its high-riding glory, it isn’t difficult to venture a guess at what the wagon version of the 2010 Subaru Liberty sedan might look like.

To help us along, Subaru Japan has revealed this teaser image of the official 2010 Subaru Legacy Touring wagon.  Visually, it’s essentially the same car, but without all [...]

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The man named Vince has landed new images of what is looking more and more likely to be the next all-new Liberty, if these and the previous batch of 2010 Subaru Liberty/Legacy images are anything to go by.

While there’s still very little technical information that has escaped (aside from a few rumours), it looks at [...]

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It’s not official yet, but it does look as if the recent batch of 2010 Subaru Liberty / Legacy images – and these latest ones – are the all-new 2010 Subaru Liberty (known internationally as the Subaru Legacy).

No other information is available as yet, but with these images and with last week’s magazine scans, it [...]

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UPDATE April 3rd 2009: Official details and images are here.

We reported earlier this afternoon about a rumour getting around that Subaru would be unveilling the production version of the new Legacy/Liberty at the New York Motor Show, and now these new images have surfaced online.

Purportedly a look at the next generation Outback and Legacy versions, [...]

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