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Posted Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 10:11pm
Subaru didn’t always focus so much on sensible cars over all else. Long before the brand leaned so heavily into crossovers, wagons that are really just SUVs, and outdoorsy body cladding, it made things like this. One of just 300 Impreza S201 STIs is up for auction, and it’s a reminder that Subaru used to plant its flag in a very different place than it would dare to today. At a glance, the S201 almost… Read More →
Posted Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 10:08pm
Subaru has not always been a brand focused exclusively on practical cars. Long before the brand bet on crossovers and an off-road image, it created real gems for enthusiasts. Clear proof of this is one of only 300 examples of the Impreza S201 STI, which is up for auction. This car is a vivid reminder that Subaru once occupied a completely different market niche than it does today. At first glance, the S201 might seem… Read More →
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 8:05pm
While automotive manufacturers tend to remain secretive when it comes to sharing the special sauce that makes their respective models their own, every now and again they understand that working with another established brand can be a worthwhile exercise in shifting some more hardware. Porsche has been involved in many of these different collaborations, and in the late 1990s, it decided to add the Subaru Legacy to its list of projects. That said, the resulting… Read More →
Posted Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 9:58pm
Subaru’s Forester is intended to evoke a far milder employment choice and one hinting at some appealingly rugged usage. The first Forester, emerging in 1997, was promoted with the simple explanation “SUV Tough, Car Easy”. What you got was a tall, all-wheel-drive estate car, served with unexpected aural character via the rhythmic beat of a flat-four engine. Flat four apart, it was no ground-breaker. Toyota’s 1984 Tercel estate offered much the same mix, if with… Read More →
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 →
