Some nickles worth of free advice:
I want to buy Subaru Legacy. It's an AWD sedan, it looks nice, it's fairly cheap, it has lots of nice features such as heated side mirrors or huge ass center display, and 180HP is enough for me, a casual driver. A brief look over competitors in the same segment didn't reveal any other cars that have or are close to having all those qualities. Did I miss something? Are there better choices than Legacy?
If you want AWD and saftey scuba-rus are the way to go.
I want to buy it new. it seems used prices aren't much lower than new, so buying second hand seems pointless. Am I making a mistake?
New vs used is the usual how much did you loose driving off the lot. If you want to maximize savings, buy used. If you want newest new toy? Buy new.
I want to buy it soon. According to the internet, now is a very bad time to buy cars in general, although I couldn't find any actual data confirming that. Just how bad is the market currently? GPU cards level bad, lumber level bad, or just typical 2-5%-compared-to-last-year level bad? Is there any point to waiting?
Also, I want it blue. For a Subaru, blue Legacies are surprisingly rare in dealers' stock, it seems based on the websites. Do dealers order custom builds? Is it a good idea to ask a dealer for a custom build? Is there any room for negotiation after that? Or is it better to just order online from the manufacturer's website?
Dealers should allow you to "order" from them. From what I've seen, color stock is basically a crap-shoot given chip shortage. So if color is a blocker, have the dealer order otherwise just take what they have that you want. If you "order" you will be waiting a while.
Thanks in advance for any helpful info.
Edit: Also, this car has CVT transmission. How much pain in the ass is it going to be? The internet can't seem to agree on it - it either works flawlessly or it's utter garbage.
The sucba-ru CVTs dont seem much worse than other CVTs but I've been driving a Ford Hybrid-CVT for 8 years so take that for what it should be worth.