VFACTS November 2021: The last Subaru Liberty has sold
The end of an era as the final Subaru Liberty rolls off the showroom floor.
We’re not crying. You’re crying.
The end of the line for the Subaru Liberty has been reached, with one final vehicle joining 266 others sold during the year, to mark the end of the model’s run in Australia.
Subaru announced the retirement of the Liberty nameplate in September 2020, with the mid-size vehicle segment not proving as popular with buyers as it once was.
When the decision was made to remove the Liberty sedan (the wagon has been gone since 2014), we produced a two-part retrospective look at the Liberty (nee Legacy) to celebrate the best of what ‘Japan’s 5 Series’ had meant to Australia. Read The Rise and Fall of the Subaru Liberty Part One, and Part Two here.
And now, it has all become very real as the last one has left the building.
It wasn’t a bad way to sign off either, as the last car, sold to a customer in Western Australia, was a Crystal White 3.6R sedan. The top-specification Liberty features a 191kW/350Nm horizontally-opposed 3.6-litre six-cylinder engine and a continuously-variable transmission (CVT) with six pre-set ratios.
So pour out a glass (or a couple of litres of oil) for the all-wheel-drive, and ideally turbocharged, boxer-engined sedan that impressed and entertained Australian buyers for 32-years.
Vale Subaru Liberty.
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