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Posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 9:49pm
When most people think of “cool vintage cars,” they’re picturing muscle cars, classic Porsches, or maybe a mint-condition Datsun 240Z. But Subaru? The brand your neighbor uses to haul mulch and groceries has actually built some genuinely awesome machines over the decades. However, Subaru doesn’t just produce quirky oddities that appeal to a niche crowd of rally nerds (though we love those folks too). These are legitimate enthusiast cars that still turn heads, deliver smiles… Read More →
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 9:22pm
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are on right now, and being racing enthusiasts, we’re all tuning in for the closest thing to car racing: the Bobsled events. Bobsledding requires inch-perfect collaboration between human and machine, the podium is often separated by hundredths of a second, and crashes can (and do) happen. Yeah, a bobsled is basically a car, and this sport is basically racing. Back in 2018 Subaru and Prodrive built an actual car with an… Read More →
Posted Monday, February 9, 2026 at 9:38pm
Japanese carmaker achieves milestone with mixed-model production line that builds EVs alongside petrol and hybrid vehicles, leveraging two decades of collaboration with Toyota to advance its electrification strategy When Subaru’s E-Outback rolled off the assembly line at its Gunma Yajima Plant in early February, it represented more than just another electric vehicle (EV) entering a crowded market. The event marked the culmination of a carefully orchestrated manufacturing transformation – one that signals how established carmakers… Read More →
Posted Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 10:12pm
The manual transmission is an endangered species, and the proliferation of EVs (at least, until recently) probably means the end is near. Or is it? Last week, both Toyota and Subaru published patents for systems that promise to simulate the experience of driving a manual transmission as accurately as possible, even in EVs that don’t have an actual transmission. We first noticed this development by Subaru spotted by CarBuzz. But we’ve seen something like this… Read More →
Posted Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 9:45pm
From the April 2001 issue of Car and Driver. We’d been driving around in the new Subaru Impreza WRX inventing errands on a Saturday just so we could push the gas pedal and watch the tach needle motor past 3000 rpm. Layered atop the characteristic growl of the Subaru flat-four engine was the whine of a single Mitsubishi-supplied turbo cramming air into the little 2.0-liter four-cylinder at twice the pressure of the atmosphere. It sounds… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 8:59pm
Car geeks love a weird flex with their engines, and this one comes straight from Japan. Imagine a flat-four boxer engine with two turbos working in sequence, chasing boost like a rally stage start. The goal was a smoother spool, less lag, and a powerband that felt stacked with torque, not waiting to wake up. On paper, it sounded like a tuner dream. In the real world, this rare setup built roughly 247 hp and… Read More →
Posted Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 10:11pm
Pick-up trucks are what keep America moving. Whether they are hauling haybales or livestock, tools or jet skis, these utilitarian machines are the modern day equivalent of the coach and horses. With myriad options, from gas V8s to torquey diesels that could pull a tree out of the ground, there is a pick-up for everyone. Every now and again, however, someone tries to slightly reinvent the pick-up formula – and it doesn’t always work –… Read More →
Posted Monday, September 22, 2025 at 10:33pm
It’s not every day that you say goodbye to a vehicle after 36 years of production, so to mark the occasion, Subaru officially sent its long-running Legacy sedan out with a fitting ceremony earlier this month as the last model rolled off the line. That’s a pretty long career for a car these days, one that leaves behind a … wait for it … interesting legacy as a solid sedan with some unique history and… Read More →
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:24pm
Subaru’s model lineup has felt a bit antithetical to the brand’s image for much of the 2020s. Subaru’s key demographics – with the exception of WRX bros – seem like the sort of environmentally conscious buyers in liberal states that would embrace the move toward fuel-efficient hybrid and battery-electric vehicles. But Subaru’s offerings have not catered to that sentiment at all. Subaru partners with Toyota on electric vehicles, which has meant – for better or… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 10:03pm
A forgotten hero, the Subaru SVX has an impeccable origin story: dreams of conquering the USA, aircraft-inspired styling like no other car before or since – and a fatal flaw that put it out of contention. That said, Subaru had form for pushing boundaries, as Jason Cammisa’s video on the XT Turbo explained. Released in 1991 in the US and Japan, then stuffed awkwardly the following year into UK showrooms the “Subaru Vehicle X”, (the… Read More →
