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Posted Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 10:33pm
It’s been almost two weeks since Shane Leonard, the owner of SL Performance Boxer Engines in Colorado Springs, disappeared. He allegedly did so with dozens of customer engines, their performance parts, and money, said to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, leaving clients’ cars by the roadside to be towed. While Leonard has not yet been found, the odds of him getting away with it to cheat other customers are diminishing by the… Read More →
Posted Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 9:47pm
Quick 100 Acre Wood Preview The Rally in the 100 Acre Wood. Open and flowing with a few tight, twisty stages thrown in. This year’s event features some of the fastest stages in the American Rally Association (ARA) series. Conditions can vary widely during this event, the range being from clear, sunny and 70 degrees, to the solid sheets of ice and snow of a true winter event. Coming into the rally this year,… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 10:31pm
While other manufacturers have taken auto electrification seriously, Subaru has been pretty slow to jump on the EV bandwagon. The automaker has a hybrid version of the Crosstrek, and that’s about it. The 2023 Subaru Solterra will be the carmaker’s first all-electric car. Considering that most manufacturers already have standard EV lineups, we can say that Subaru is lagging in this category. The 2023 Solterra is a collaboration between Subaru and Toyota. Both Japanese manufacturers… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 10:29pm
It wasn’t until I found myself behind the wheel of a 2022 Subaru Outback Wilderness that I realized just how many Subarus there are out there. At every stoplight, at every corner, at every drive-thru, at the school pick-up line, they’re everywhere. On one day I must’ve counted at least a dozen during my usual, twice-a-day school runs. To me, Subarus had always been overly rugged-looking wagons with loyal followings, but I never really understood… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 10:28pm
Petter Solberg isn’t short of World Rally Championship victories. In fact, he won 13 events across a career that peaked with the 2003 world title. But Rally México will always mark an important moment in his career as it’s the last full rally Solberg ever won. Rally GB 2005 will ultimately go down as Solberg’s final victory, but it was a rally marred by the tragic loss of Michael Park. Although Solberg won the event,… Read More →
Posted Monday, March 14, 2022 at 10:21pm
News broke late last week that the new Subaru WRX would not be getting an STI counterpart. The company announced it was exploring its options for a next-generation model, with electrification likely on the table. Making a new one now wouldn’t make sense, a Subaru spokesperson told Road & Track. “If we designed [a new STI] now, it would have a very limited shelf life,” Subaru Director of Corporate Communications Dominick Infante said. “The regulations are changing so quickly… Read More →
Posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:08pm
In what may come as a shock to many of us, Subaru has announced that the new WRX it just launched will not be getting a higher-performance WRX STI model, at least not one based on the 2022 Subaru WRX. Instead, Subaru is looking into electrification for its future performance applications, and we may not see another STI until the next generation of the WRX, which might be awhile. Read More →
Posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:07pm
CAMDEN, N.J., March 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As the automotive marketplace continues to move towards electrification, Subaru is focused on how our future sports and performance cars should evolve to meet the needs of the changing marketplace and the regulations and requirements for greenhouse gasses (GHG), zero emissions vehicles (ZEV), and Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ). As part of that effort, Subaru Corporation is exploring opportunities for the next generation Subaru WRX STI, including electrification. In the… Read More →
Posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:05pm
ravis Pastrana will return to the American Rally Association Presented by DirtFish National championship at next weekend’s 100 Acre Wood Rally, kicking off a title defense that was delayed through injury. The six-time US rally champion was sidelined for the season-opening Sno*Drift Rally after breaking his pelvis in a BASE jumping accident while taking a break from filming the latest Gymkhana film in January. While there was talk of him potentially making last month’s rally, Subaru Motorsports… Read More →
Posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 2:38pm
The 2021 Subaru WRX STI could go down in history as the last STI model that was powered by an internal-combustion engine. Subaru today announced that the gas-fed WRX STI is dead, but also suggested that the next generation of the brand’s iconic model could be an EV. The company didn’t mention when a potential next-gen WRX STI EV might arrive, either. Read More →
