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Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 2:47am

Subaru’s Outback and Legacy Plant to Break New Ground

Following a record year of sales for its Outback wagon and Legacy sedan in 2011, Subaru has announced that it will meet the increasing demand at Subaru dealerships by expanding the central Indiana plant where the vehicles are built. The Japanese automaker will begin construction this summer on 52,000 square-feet of additional factory space, a move that will increase production capacity at the plant by 15 percent and equates to roughly 24,000 more vehicles per… Read More →

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 2:47am

Gymkhana Four returns with new bonus edit

Rally driver Ken Block, DC Shoes and Ford Racing have teamed up once again to release a follow-up to “Gymkhana Four: The Hollywood Megamercial.” The new chapter, titled “DC Gymkhana Four: Bonus Edit,” focuses on Block’s behind-the-wheel driving while incorporating never-before-seen shots and all-new angles of previous shots. DC Shoes calls the new edit a “raw, more focused action edit.” Read More →

Posted Monday, May 21, 2012 at 2:46am

Subaru EyeSight Review

There was a time when Honda was the leading innovator of technology among the mainstream Japanese manufacturers. But it’s 2012 and times have changed. Subaru is taking on the technology race by releasing its EyeSight system on the range-topping Liberty and Outback models as standard equipment. Read More →

Posted Monday, May 21, 2012 at 2:45am

Subaru to expand Lafayette plant to increase Legacy, Outback production

Subaru will expand its Lafayette plant in Indiana to increase production of the Legacy sedan and wagon as well as the Outback crossover. The 52,000-square-foot expansion of the facility’s body assembly section costs $75 million. This project will begin this summer and will raise the factory’s capacity to 180,000 units during regular shifts, the automaker revealed. Subaru said that the present limit is 156,000 vehicles on straight time. The expansion is also anticipated to bring… Read More →

Posted Friday, May 18, 2012 at 2:45am

Auto review: 2013 Subaru BRZ is an honest-to-goodness sports car

This is what the 2013 Subaru BRZ might say if it could talk. The all-new, rear-wheel-drive sports car starts at $26,265, and boy is it honest— perhaps more so than any other car on the market today, save for its mechanical twin, the Scion FR-S. The two were jointly developed by Subaru and Scion’s parent company, Toyota, with both assembled by Subaru in Japan. Read More →

Posted Friday, May 18, 2012 at 2:44am

Subaru Tempt a Pair of Enthusiasts to Try Out the 2013 BRZ

The highly-anticipated BRZ is meant to hit U.S. showrooms imminently priced at $25,495 for the base and $27,495 for the Premium model.On one of their recent photo shoots, Subaru invited a couple of enthusiasts along to check out the car they have been reading about since before it debuted in concept form. Powered by a new Subaru-developed 2.0-liter boxer engine equipped with Toyota’s D4-S direct injection system, total output is 197hp and 151lb-ft of torque Read More →