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Posted Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 10:11pm
“Err on the side of aggressive…” This is the Travis Pastrana life motto. He is not what you’d call a typical driving instructor. And his 1983 Subaru GL wagon isn’t your typical driving instructor’s car. The ‘Family Huckster’ is powered by an 862bhp flat-four boxer engine. It gets active aero, a six-speed sequential box and runs four bar of boost. It doesn’t come with dual control pedals. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 10:08pm
Thirty years have now passed but the 1993 World Rally Championship season will always be remembered as a year of firsts. It witnessed the rise of the WRC’s most popular figure amid the crowning of a bona fide record-breaking rally legend. It was Toyota’s Juha Kankkunen who ultimately emerged with the spoils, becoming the first four-time world champion and record rally winner to boot after seeing off the factory Ford challenge from Francois Delecour and… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2023 at 9:24pm
Subaru will raise U.S. autoworkers’ wages following similar pay hikes by Toyota, Hyundai and Honda, which all were announced after the UAW negotiated labor deals with the Big Three, CEO Atsushi Osaki told Reuters on Thursday at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Read More →
Posted Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 10:09pm
Harry Bates and Coral Taylor have been crowned champions of the 2023 Bosch Motorsport Australia Rally Championship (ARC) after a thrilling season finale in Canberra. Highlighting the closeness of this year’s season-long title fight, Bates and Taylor needed to win both the Subaru Canberra Rally of Canberra outright and Sunday afternoon’s EROAD Power Stage in order to take out the championship. And the duo did just that, as they won the final stage of the… Read More →
Posted Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 10:08pm
Subarus evolve slowly. So slowly that at a glance, it’s sometimes hard to tell one generation of Outback or Impreza from the last. That won’t be the case with the 2025 Subaru Forester, revealed just ahead of the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show, but Forester fans will find the recipe very familiar. The restyled 2025 will offer lots of little upgrades and a fresh, and less frumpy wrapper, but the best is yet to come.… Read More →
Posted Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 10:06pm
Subaru’s design team phoned it in with the 2025 Forester, but they weren’t the only ones slacking as the engineering team decided to take an early lunch and let Toyota do some of the heavy lifting. Speaking to Autonews, Subaru of America’s Jeff Walters said the upcoming hybrid variant will have a “Toyota-sourced battery [and electric components] joined with a boxer engine.” He added the hybrid will arrive roughly one year after the standard model… Read More →
Posted Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 10:05pm
Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin have finished the opening day of the Subaru Canberra Rally of Canberra just seconds on top of the event standings after a dramatic six stages. In what was an extremely tough day for crews facing challenging conditions, the reigning ARC champions’ consistency saw them end the day with a narrow three second advantage over Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia teammates Harry Bates and Coral Taylor. The two title contenders were the… Read More →
Posted Friday, November 17, 2023 at 9:59pm
There is a potential Marvel heroine movie in rally star Molly Taylor. It wasn’t enough that she was the first female to win the Rally of Canberra in 2015 and then the following season, take on a completely male field and win the entire Australian Rally Championship, the first woman to do so in the history of the sport. Read More →
Posted Friday, November 17, 2023 at 9:56pm
Check one off the forbidden-fruit list. With the 2025 Subaru Forester hybrid, the automaker is finally bringing to the U.S. the latest version of a model that’s lived in Europe for years. Toyota and Honda should take note of the 2025 Forester hybrid, which fills one of the most gaping holes in Subaru’s lineup. As Honda brags that more than half of all CR-V sales are hybrids and Toyota sells more RAV4 Hybrids than any… Read More →
Posted Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 10:00pm
Officially, the 2025 Subaru Forester will come in base, Premium, Sport, Touring, and Limited trims once it goes on sale in the first half of 2024. Unofficially, the new compact SUV will almost certainly add an off-road-focused Wilderness guise to its trim-level hierarchy within a year of its debut. It’s as inevitable as the changing tides of the ocean. Read More →
