Posted Friday, August 23, 2013 at 1:30am
Having aced the crash test from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and earning the highest rating of Top Safety Pick+, the 2014 Subaru Forester headed over to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for a date with destruction. In the barrage of NHTSA tests, the new Forester met similar results as it did with the IIHS, earning a five-star overall crash rating. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 19, 2013 at 1:19am
Subaru has a problem any auto maker would love to have. It’s selling too many cars. Subaru-brand sales in the U.S. are up 27% in the first seven months of 2013, more than three times the market overall. The auto maker, owned by Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., 7270.TO +0.87% is on track for a sixth-straight year of sales gains, a period that includes the 2009 financial crisis that bankrupted two of Detroit’s Big Three. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 19, 2013 at 1:16am
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen: the Subaru BRZ tS, the car we were kind of hoping would be some sort of insane turbocharged BRZ STI. Actually, it was developed by Subaru’s STI division, but more power isn’t on the table. P Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 3:35am
The FR-S won’t be getting any power upgrades anytime soon, but it’s a different story for the Toyota 86, the Scion’s twin sold in other markets. According to the coupe’s chief engineer Tetsuya Tada, the 86′s boxer engine will definitely be offered with more power for the model year 2015 refresh. Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 3:34am
Subaru has been off the radar for many buyers, putting out odd but good cars, the kind that seem to score well on quality surveys and in crash tests. Subaru as a brand came in No. 2, just behind Lexus, in Consumer Reports magazine’s recent annual auto rankings, and the magazine gave what seems like a perfect summary: “Simple, dependable and efficient cars, but they’re often noisy.” Read More →
Posted Friday, August 16, 2013 at 3:31am
HOW far would Cebuano’s go to win a Subaru Impreza 2.0 six-speed manual? Cebu found out last Saturday, Aug. 10, when 107 men and women showed up for the 2013 Subaru Impreza Challenge Philippine Leg in Cebu at the Ayala Terraces. The challenge sounds simple: participants need to place their palm on a specified area on the car, without lifting it for as long as they can. However, they only get a five-minute break every… Read More →
Posted Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 3:28am
With the Ojibwe Rally just a week away, we’re taking this opportunity to drop our complete coverage from Round 5 on you: The New England Forest Rally. If you want to see America’s only stage rally Toyota GT-86, or hear the tale of Ken Blockenheimers broken alternator, this is your must-watch video of the day. Read More →
Posted Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 3:24am
The Ojibwe Forests Rally returns to the Rally America National Championship Friday and Saturday after running as a regional rally event the last three years. This edition of the Ojibwe Forest Rally is round 6 of the championship and is now headquartered in Detroit Lakes. With a new location and a return to national event status many national teams will race the iconic fast and flowing stage roads for the first time, which adds another… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 4:30am
Roughly 1,000 vehicles flooded the Empire Center in Burbank on Tuesday night for a car “flash mob” organized through social media, snarling traffic as crowds swarmed the parking lot. More than 20 police officers from Burbank, Glendale and San Marino were assigned to patrol after a similar event in November also caused traffic headaches. Earlier in the evening, police closed the parking lot to cars, shut down surrounding streets because of traffic congestion and warned… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 4:19am
Safety-minded Subaru has a new pet project: crash tests for dogs. This year, the automaker started funding first-of-its-kind research by the nonprofit Center for Pet Safety to study the dangers of driving with a dog. The researchers are borrowing from the driver-safety playbook, putting dog-shaped dummies through crash simulations at a Virginia laboratory that tests child seats for the government. Subaru, which has carefully cultivated an image as a pet-friendly brand, hopes the research will… Read More →
