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Posted Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 9:54pm
Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Despite feeling relatively modern, the airbag’s roots go back more than a century, with two Birmingham, Alabama dentists submitting a patent “for the covering of aeroplane and other vehicle parts” in 1919. That said, the first automobile airbag patent application wasn’t approved until 1953, and only in the late 1980s and early 1990s did… Read More →
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 9:53pm
The secret to some of Subaru’s most successful crossovers isn’t really a secret at all. To build both the Outback and the smaller Crosstrek, the brand simply took two of its existing cars — the Legacy and Impreza, respectively — and raised their ride heights. Aside from slightly more rugged styling courtesy of some body cladding, that’s all it took to create new models with more appeal than the ones they’re based on. The approach… Read More →
Posted Monday, April 21, 2025 at 9:48pm
Subaru has been slow to adopt electrified vehicles. The brand’s first all-electric vehicle, the Solterra, was built in partnership with Toyota and hasn’t been a huge success in the competitive class. That isn’t stopping Subaru from introducing its second all-electric SUV with the 2026 Subaru Trailseeker. While it’s based on the current Solterra, the new Trailseeker is a larger SUV with a lot more power and an eye toward off-roading capability. Compared to the Solterra,… Read More →
Posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 9:44pm
The magical world of rallying has turned so many humdrum family cars into generation-defining performance heroes. On their own, the names Delta, Escort and Lancer offer little to get enthusiasts excited, but tag Integrale, Cosworth and Evolution onto them, and you get the sort of late 20th century legend that gets a certain type of person bidding their life savings away on online auctions. Then there was the Subaru Impreza, another small, run of the… Read More →
Posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 9:42pm
To the relief of practically anybody who drives a car regularly, Japanese carmaker Subaru has brought back physical buttons and knobs for its 2026 Outback midsize SUV. It’s yet another sign that carmakers are finally starting to listen, ditching massive touchscreens that have taken over a vast number of vehicle controls in favor of tactile buttons, switches, and knobs. Read More →
Posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 9:41pm
The STI S210 could well be the last pure turbocharged, boxer-engined, gasoline powered sports sedan made by Subaru before the model is hybridized. The S210 is based on the WRX S4 sedan but employs upgrades and bespoke parts that elevate this car from ballsy to ballistic. But like all super high achievers, there are conditions—it will be limited to just 500 units, it has no 6-speed manual option, and all are destined for Japanese buyers… Read More →
Posted Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 9:36pm
Gone are the days of Subaru releasing new WRX STI models that go Brap! But after years of leaning further and further into its granola munching side, Subaru is preparing to swing the pendulum back toward its sporty roots, at least, according to the brand’s European boss, David Dello Stritto. The catch? The days of internal-combustion Subaru STIs are behind us, according to Stritto. Speaking to Autocar at the New York auto show earlier this… Read More →
Posted Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 9:34pm
Subaru released technical specifications for the new, Japanese-market Forester, and there’s a cool feature available in the SUV’s home market that hasn’t been announced for America yet. It’s a big, U-shaped airbag that deploys from the upper edge of the hood to protect cyclists. Read More →
Posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 9:42pm
Travis Pastrana smiled. He knew what he wanted to say, but how best to put it across? Route one. Same way he’s always gone. “Brandon Semenuk pretty much retired me,” he said, answering the question of why he’d stepped back from American rallying’s dream ticket of an Open class Subaru WRX ARA25 to the all-new Limited category equivalent. “I realized I’m no longer willing, capable maybe, I don’t know, whatever the word is, to run… Read More →
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 9:38pm
When it first launched an “Outback” as little more than a trim level for the Legacy wagon, Subaru possibly didn’t expect it to become arguably as much of a brand icon for the company as the rally-bred WRX. It should have, however, because all-wheel-drive wagons are part of the genesis story of the brand, specifically the eight special-order FF-1 wagons built as service vehicles for the Tohoku power company of northern Japan. Go-anywhere wagon practicality… Read More →
