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Posted Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 10:48pm
Well that was quite the finale, wasn’t it? Travis Pastrana is the 2021 Nitro Rallycross series champion after finishing fourth in the final round at the Florida International Rally and Motorsports Park level on points with Subaru Motorsports USA team-mate Scott Speed – ahead courtesy of his greater number of victories. But how does the field stack up from our perspective? For the final time this year, here’s the DirtFish Nitro Rallycross Power Rankings. Read More →
Posted Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:48pm
After soaring from one U.S. sales record to the next for more than a decade, Subaru is finally being tripped up, by ultrathin vehicle inventories. And recovering from that will take long into next year. Conceding Subaru can’t sell what it can’t build as the global semiconductor shortage drags on, CEO Tomomi Nakamura says the Japanese carmaker’s back orders now stand at around 45,000 vehicles in the U.S. That logjam is more than the 36,000… Read More →
Posted Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:47pm
Before full stardom, Bruce Willis was a dedicated actor, appearing in TV shows throughout the 1980s. These included Miami Vice. the Twilight Zone reboot, and Moonlighting. But his breakout role was as John McClane in Die Hard, released in 1988. He immediately reprised his role in Die Hard 2 and the rest of the series. This opened up opportunities such as starring in The Fifth Element, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, and M. Night Shyamalan’s The… Read More →
Posted Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:46pm
Spy video published last month provided our first look at the next-generation 2023 Subaru XV, the third iteration of one of the brand’s best-selling models in Australia. While the XV prototype was clothed in a relatively thin layer of disguise – cutting a shape through the air not dissimilar to its predecessor – we tasked Drive’s resident Photoshop guru Theophilus Chin with stripping off the camouflage, a year ahead of the Subaru’s scheduled unveiling. In… Read More →
Posted Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 11:41pm
Scott Speed emerged as top qualifier at the Nitro Rallycross season finale at The Florida International Rally & Motorsport Park following a post-race penalty for Timmy Hansen. Hansen won the Battle Bracket final ahead of Speed, passing him late on the track’s final asphalt section, making heavy contact with the Subaru driver in the process. The move, which resulted in the front bumper of Hansen’s Peugeot completely detaching, was judged to have featured all four… Read More →
Posted Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 11:40pm
It’s not often we have two of the same type of vehicle during the same week. It was just happenstance that we got either one of these great coupe offerings, and to get them during the same week must have had something to do with good karma. Regardless, it provided us the opportunity to really compare the two without having to think back a few months about what we liked or didn’t like about one… Read More →
Posted Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 11:31pm
It’s 1.6 miles and a cloud of dust. Bouncing cars, heaps of dirt and some lightning-quick drivers take center stage on the First Coast Saturday for the 2021 finale of the Nitro Rallycross series, set for Saturday and Sunday at Florida International Rally & Motorsport Park near Keystone Heights. The series, in its first year, features top drivers from the United States and beyond in rally racing — unlike conventional paved oval and road courses… Read More →
Posted Friday, December 3, 2021 at 11:29pm
The semiconductor chip shortage has made 2021 difficult for the entire automotive industry, but some carmakers are suffering standout bad years. One of them is Subaru, which is on a trajectory to record its first back-to-back years of sales decline in the United States since 1995. Subaru CEO Tomomi Nakamura told Automotive News that while the company’s sales through October haven’t been in a bad spot, with 499,619 cars sold, it’s not quite the pace… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 10:26pm
Robert Reid won the 2001 World Rally Championship for Subaru as co-driver to Richard Burns, the 20th anniversary was celebrated last week. The Scot has since gone on to a career in the sport’s governance on several FIA commissions including Safety. He’s running in the FIA elections in three weeks for the role of Deputy President for Sport under Mohammed ben Sulayem. Victory would see him as “co-driver” to the most powerful role in motorsport,… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 29, 2021 at 10:35pm
The casualty list of affordable performance cars is pretty much every car we search for on Bring a trailer: Probe, Prelude, Celica, Cobalt SS, SRT4, Impulse, Talon, Daytona, Laser, 240SX, XT6. A victim of a culture obsessed with sitting high and cornering slowly, going fast on a budget is harder than ever. Decades ago, nearly every brand sold an affordable sporty car; now we’re down to just a few choices. We’ve gathered four of the… Read More →
