Subaru Levorg: car review | Martin Love

It's not just boy racers and rally drivers who love Subarus - the cars enjoy a fanatical following. The question is: why?

Price: 27,495
Top speed: 130mph
0-62mph: 8.9 seconds
MPG: 39.8

Imagine two drivers standing proudly beside their new cars. One is next to a Mercedes, the other a Subaru. Now picture the same scene a few years down the road. Both have replaced their cars, but which of the two has bought the same brand again? The Benz, surely! In fact it's the Subaru that will be putting in another shift. The marque has phenomenal brand loyalty, higher than Mercedes, BMW and even Porsche. But why such fidelity? Subarus are certainly good cars, but they are not great cars.