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Posted Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at 9:50pm

MCKENNA STARS, SEMENUK WINS 100 ACRE

On the face of it, it was business as usual for Brandon Semenuk and Keaton Williams in Missouri on Saturday night. The Subaru WRX pair arrived back into Salem with almost two minutes in hand over their nearest 100 Acre Wood rival. Switching the #1 car off at the finish, the driver’s door was opened and the Canadian was greeted by the team. Semenuk blew out his cheeks, before offering the same smile he’s delivered… Read More →

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 10:14pm

Subaru to cut output at plants in Japan, U.S. due to global chip shortage

OKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automaker Subaru Corp said on Thursday it would cut output this month by “several thousand” vehicles at plants in Japan and the United States, citing a global shortage of semiconductors. A spokesman said Subaru will adjust production at factories in Gunma, Japan and Indiana, reducing output by several thousand vehicles at each, without specifying exactly how many fewer cars will be made. Read More →

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 10:12pm

Miniature Flat-Four Air-Cooled Engine Sounds Like A Subaru Rally Car

It revs to more than 10,000 rpm. Тhe boxer engine stands out in the realm of internal combustion engines for its unique design and distinctive sound. Unlike the more common inline or V-shaped engines, the boxer engine, also known as a flat-four, boasts a configuration where its pistons move horizontally in opposite directions, creating a perfectly balanced force. This configuration is renowned for its smoothness, low center of gravity, and the unmistakable purr that has… Read More →

Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 10:10pm

Subaru’s Former CEO Left a Lasting Impact of Important Change

Tom Doll changed the way Subaru operates. During a 40-year tenure at the automaker, he worked to develop some of the best-known vehicles and marketing campaigns in the automotive world. His hands helped to mold Subaru into the quirky, inclusive brand it is today. But, his legacy is even larger. Doll touched the lives of Subaru employees, past and present, showing grace, confidence, compassion and appreciation in ways that elicit respect and changed the way… Read More →

Posted Monday, March 25, 2024 at 10:05pm

Top 10 Best Subaru Cars of All Time

Before we get into the meat of this top 10 list, let’s set a few parameters. When talking about the best Subaru cars of all-time, it would be very easy to just list a collection of 10 WRX/STI models. But we want to broaden this list, and in turn, make it more interesting. Therefore, from an model’s entire history, we’re only allowing one example to make the list. That means just one Impreza-based car, one… Read More →

Posted Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 10:02pm

SEMENUK HAPPY TO HELP PASTRANA FIND SPEED

Brandon Semenuk is ready to help team-mate and rival Travis Pastrana re-find the form and the speed which carried him to six American titles earlier in his career. After a tough couple of rallies back in a full-time ARA program, Pastrana revealed his frustrations to DirtFish and admitted he would need Semenuk’s help. The 40-year-old is candid enough to admit the Canadian is the biggest rival he’s faced in his career. “I mean [David] Higgins… Read More →

Posted Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 10:00pm

NEUVILLE’S ALTERNATIVE MASTERPLAN TO FIX THE WRC

There was a lot of hullabaloo last week about whether Thierry Neuville wanted to stay or wanted to go from the World Rally Championship. That’s all been sorted now: Neuville is here to stay, so long as the manufacturers do likewise. End of. If Hyundai offers him a contract for 2025 he’ll sign it. But it’s worth digging further into how that whole narrative came about: it was a misunderstanding from a point of view… Read More →

Posted Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 9:57pm

2024 Subaru WRX Ditches Nonsensical BMW-Style Turn Signal Stalks

When Subaru introduced the current-gen WRX for the 2022 model year, it gave the sport sedan a turn signal stalk that immediately flicked back to center, like the much-maligned ones found in BMWs from the mid-aughts and early 2010s. Now, the WRX is getting a minor refresh for 2024, and as part of it, Subaru has quietly ditched that design for the more conventional kind, as one Redditor has confirmed. Read More →

Posted Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 9:56pm

PASTRANA: I’VE NEVER BEEN THIS SCARED IN MY LIFE

In 2007 Travis Pastrana jumped out of an aeroplane somewhere over Puerto Rico. He didn’t have a parachute, but it wasn’t a problem – he was meeting a friend mid-air to harness himself into one. A few years later, he jumped 52 cars. Which was cool. But not cool enough. So he jumped 16 buses. When the bike still had some fuel in the tank, he jumped the fountain at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. That… Read More →