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Posted Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 2:49am
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (7270) is making a contrarian bet: The maker of Subaru cars is cranking up domestic manufacturing at a time other Japanese automakers are expanding overseas to escape the strong yen. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 2:48am
Stock car racing veterans Mike Greci and Scott Zipadelli serve as an integral part of No. 99 Boost Mobile Toyota driver Travis Pastrana’s introduction to NASCAR. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 2:48am
To us enthusiasts, the shining star of Subaru’s lineup is the Impreza WRX. It has a lot of staunch fans, and there’s always strong debate between the WRX and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution camps. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 2:47am
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
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
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 2:46am
SUBARU furthers its street cred, tuner-friendly, rally racing heritage as it unveils a trio of Impreza WRX STI hatchbacks that will compete in the six-round, US-based 2012 Global Rallycross Championship series. Scheduled to start on May 26, the series will hold races across speedways in US. Read More →
Posted Monday, May 21, 2012 at 2:45am
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
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
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 →