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Posted Monday, November 15, 2021 at 9:46pm
As if making history in one sport wasn’t enough, Brandon Semenuk is rapidly building a reputation in his secondary career, rally car racing. Just weeks after landing an unprecedented fourth victory at Red Bull Rampage, Brandon Semenuk was back on top of another podium. The Canadian traded in his bike for a different set of wheels. Semenuk and John Hall closed out the Oregon Trail Rally, the final race of the American Rally Association national… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 15, 2021 at 9:39pm
For a car brand so closely associated with the great outdoors, Subaru Corp. has been weirdly slow to cash in on environmental friendliness. In the U.S., its biggest market by far, the Japanese automaker offers just one partly electrified model, the plug-in hybrid Crosstrek compact SUV. Even that is listed on the company’s website as having “limited availability.” So Thursday’s unveiling in Tokyo of the Subaru Solterra, its first fully electric SUV, feels like an… Read More →
Posted Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 9:46pm
The 2023 Subaru Solterra world premiere video is almost 10 minutes long. Considering the fact that the average attention span in the age of social media is much less than a minute, you may have missed a view things. Don’t worry. We got you covered. After watching the premiere video several times, it became clear that Subaru President Tomomi Nakamura didn’t actually have to verbally reveal much about the electric SUV itself to give Subaru… Read More →
Posted Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 9:44pm
Toyota marshalled corporate allies this weekend to form a Team Japan dedicated to keeping internal combustion engines alive on the road to carbon neutrality even as rivals continue to gravitate toward battery electric vehicles. Under the initiative, kicked off Nov. 13 by Toyota, a coalition of five Japanese companies will explore new, greener fueling options for internal combustion. The push brings together Toyota, Subaru and Mazda, as well as motorcycle makers Kawasaki Heavy Industries and… Read More →
Posted Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 9:39pm
It’s obvious that auto manufacturers have shifted focus heavily toward crossovers and SUVs.The thing is, inevitably things can start to look the same as the playing field levels out and it can be hard to separate car makers and models on merit, especially as the running gear for one EV becomes indistinguishable from the next one. You can argue that rather than varied and characterful engines playing a role in vehicle choice, it may fall… Read More →
Posted Friday, November 12, 2021 at 9:36pm
Subaru is officially joining the electric car game, debuting a new SUV based on the platform that the company worked with Toyota to build. Called the Subaru Solterra, the vehicle will feature an all-wheel drive system with Subaru’s world-renowned “X-Mode” feature, plus it will get some kind of off-road cruise control. Here’s what we know so far. June of 2019 was an exciting time because the world got its first close look at how Toyota… Read More →
Posted Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 10:33pm
Here’s our first good look at the 2022 Subaru Solterra, the Japanese automaker’s first electric vehicle. Coming to the US, Canada, and Europe in 2022, the Solterra SUV will be powered by an electric vehicle platform that Subaru has been co-developing with Toyota. The Solterra will come in both front-wheel and all-wheel drive variants, with either a 150kW (201 horsepower) AC synchronous motor driving just the front wheels or a pair of 80kW (107 hp)… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 10:57pm
Subaru’s ready to enter the electric vehicle segment with the 2023 Solterra SUV. While we won’t have specifics and details on the electric SUV for the US until next week, we’re in for an early treat. Subaru plans to reveal the new EV in Japan, and has a livestream ready for everyone to enjoy. The electric SUV will be a twin of the Toyota BZ4X, which we already saw, so don’t expect too many surprises… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2021 at 10:56pm
Subaru is getting ready to take the wraps off its first mass-market EV next week, when the Solterra debuts at the LA auto show. The battery-electric EV will share a platform with the Toyota bZ4X, which was revealed in near-production form just last week, but Subaru is expected to put its own spin on the model, not only to differentiate it from the Toyota version on the outside, but to offer its own audience something… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 8, 2021 at 9:54pm
The 2023 Subaru XV has been spied testing for the first time, ahead of its global unveiling rumoured for late 2022 or early 2023. Caught on camera on US roads by YouTube user KindelAuto, the next-generation XV’s styling is an evolutionary step forward from its predecessor, mixing the current model’s high-riding hatchback shape with smoother lines and design cues from Subaru’s latest models. Up front, slim new LED headlights link with the hexagonal grille through… Read More →
