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Posted Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 10:05pm
Ah… the five-star Fuji Heavy Industries partnership. The first Japanese car company to use a Japanese name. The trademark of granolas. The head-gasket breakers. Subaru as a company kicked off in America with a silly little 1-and-1/3-seater car that got 61 miles to the gallon in 1958 when fuel efficiency was still ahead of its time. The little Subaru 360 was advertised and proudly proclaimed to the western world in its expensive color TV ads… Read More →
Posted Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 10:56pm
Here at Car and Driver, we take our title pretty seriously. We rarely, reluctantly relinquish control of the wheel. But if we must, we’re glad it’s to someone like Scott Speed. A three-time Global Rallycross winner, Speed has raced in practically every series, including Formula 1, NASCAR, and Formula E. Speed signed with Subaru Rally Team USA in 2019, which makes him the ideal hotshoe to introduce us to the new 2022 Subaru WRX. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 10:45pm
The fourth-generation STI will maintain its status quo as a more hardcore version of the WRX with more grunt, a sharper chassis and a more visceral driving experience. However, the 2022 WRX sits on Subaru’s latest global architecture that underpins Subaru’s cushy Impreza, Forester and Outback, so just how hardcore will the next-gen STI be? Read More →
Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 10:40pm
Subaru has finally redesigned the WRX for the 2022 model year, and people are somewhat polarized by the Japanese automaker’s rally-bred sedan. The front-end styling kicks off the list of schismatic touches, and I wholly agree with the criticism because the lower half of the front bumper looks tawdry. Read More →
Posted Monday, September 13, 2021 at 10:35pm
n a nod to the car’s gravel road-blasting intentions, the new Subaru WRX features prominent unpainted plastic body cladding. Cladding isn’t typically found on the modern rally cars that inspired the existence of the original Subaru Impreza WRX – and its simply-named WRX successors – so what is it doing on the new 2022 WRX? Theories vary. The cladding is a nod to Subaru’s famously pragmatic and purpose-driven attitudes to design – but it’s also… Read More →
Posted Monday, September 13, 2021 at 10:34pm
lmost nine years since the game-changing original BRZ went on sale in Australia (alongside its Toyota 86 twin), Subaru’s rear-drive, flat-four sports coupe is back for generation two, and it’s already a sales hit. Offered in two high-grade spec levels – BRZ Coupe ($38,990) and BRZ Coupe S ($40,190), with a six-speed auto costing $3,800 more – online and dealer orders opened a week ago and already more than 50 percent of the initial 500-unit… Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:30pm
Subaru teases more and more images of its upcoming all-electric Solterra SUV, which will be launched in 2022 (including Japan, the U.S., Canada, Europe and China). This new model will be built on the on the e-Subaru Global Platform, but technically it’s a platform developed with Toyota, which calls its platform the e-TNGA. It’s the same thing as both companies have announced in 2019 partnership on both the platform and the all-electric SUV. Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:28pm
Six of Japan’s big automakers, including Toyota Motor, will cut production plans for the current fiscal year by more than 1 million vehicles, a decrease on the same level as the previous year that saw a major cutback due to the coronavirus pandemic. The impact of the surge in coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia, which is a major supply base for in-vehicle semiconductors, is the main cause for the cuts, and is also being felt… Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:19pm
When you think about the things a Lamborghini Urus and a Subaru WRX have in common, you probably don’t imagine a list that’s too long. They both have all-wheel-drive, turbocharged engines, and, beyond that, not much comes to mind other than dad jokes such as “four wheels” and all the rest. Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:18pm
At the moment, the Levorg doesn’t have a high-performance derivative. The sole engine option in the wagon is a 1.8-liter turbo. Dubbed the CB18, its more efficient than the engine it replaced. However, its 174 horsepower rating won’t exactly get pulses racing. But there is news from Australia that Subaru might just inject some adrenaline into the station wagon. Read More →
