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Posted Saturday, April 2, 2022 at 9:43pm
Forget Benito Guerra vs Matthew Wilson battling Harri Rovanperä against Adrien Fourmaux taking on Mads Østberg. This week’s Rally of Nations Guanajuato is about México vs United Kingdom battling Finland against France taking on Norway. And that’s just the start, with incredible teams also coming from USA, Japan, Italy, Spain, Europe, Latin America and Ecuador. Based out of León, this week’s Rally of Nations Guanajuato will mirror the itinerary of México’s round of the World… Read More →
Posted Friday, April 1, 2022 at 9:42pm
I’ve been a fan of small, sporty Toyotas ever since my buddy told me about riding around California as a kid in his dad’s 1980s FX16, a twin-cam hot hatch the world wasn’t ready for at the time. So I’m not mad that there’s a new 300-horsepower Toyota GR Corolla hot hatchback, I just find one coincidence funny. It all started this morning when we first saw the leaked photos and specs of the car.… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 10:43pm
There’s an old joke about people confessing their sins out loud in church, where the preacher encourages the congregation to “Tell it all, brother!” This goes well until one of the men, in the enthusiasm of the moment, shares too much information. The preacher replies, “I wouldn’t have told that, brother!” I’m about to confess something I might wish I hadn’t told: I gave my pickup truck to my teenagers and bought a compact crossover. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 10:41pm
It’s been 15 whole years since we’ve seen reigning American Rally Association presented by DirtFish National champion Travis Pastrana compete in the World Rally Championship, but it has happened. That first foray was on none other than Rally México in 2007, where he entered a modified Rally America Group N Subaru Impreza WRX STI in the P-WRC category with Christian Björn Edström sitting in the passenger-seat to navigate. Pastrana would be joined by his team-mate,… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 10:39pm
HEREFORDSHIRE co-driver Keaton Williams has made a dramatic return to top flight rallying taking victory in America. Williams is set for a full American rally championship with rising American star Brandon Semenyuk in the Red Bull/ Subaru USA Subaru Impreza, writes Paul Willetts. Semenyuk has been the find within the ARA Championship in recent years, now battling team-mate Travis Pastrana for the number position in the team. Read More →
Posted Friday, March 25, 2022 at 10:34pm
When Jennifer Homendy saw the Toyota RAV4 hurtling her way as she sat in Northern Virginia traffic, the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board had only a moment to prepare before experiencing the type of violent collision she has tried to reduce across the country. The former union official and Democratic staff director for the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Material was nominated by President Biden in May to lead the independent… Read More →
Posted Friday, March 25, 2022 at 10:10pm
Last week, someone—police are still unsure who—rented a Tesla Model S from Enterprise and jumped it over a street in Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood, completely annihilating the Tesla. Unfortunately, upon landing the EV, the driver lost control of the Tesla and slammed into a street-parked Subaru Forester, totaling it. Now, at the very least, the Subaru owner has had a successful fundraiser so he can replace his destroyed car. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 10:20pm
Over the weekend, a driver behind the wheel of a rented Tesla launched over a hill in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles before landing on other vehicles at the end of the street. One of those vehicles was allegedly owned by Jordan Hook, whose Subaru Forester was destroyed in the process. And to recoup his losses, Hook has started a GoFundMe. “Hi, I’m Jordan, a local musician here in LA. Last night, I… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 10:16pm
Possum Bourne’s awesome 1982 Subaru Leone rally car has appeared for sale at Webb’s April “Collectors’ Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia” auction house, and compared with other ex-motorsport vehicles, it could be a steal. The car was first registered in New Zealand on 22 December 1982, and raced in the 1983 Rally of New Zealand with Bourne at the wheel, the first time he helmed a Subaru. He managed 14th, the car’s best result of its… Read More →
Posted Sunday, March 20, 2022 at 10:14pm
Brandon Semenuk has claimed a last gasp 100 Acre Wood Rally win as Ken Block hit a deer and dropped a minute on the final stage. Block, debuting his new Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC, led the majority of the second round of the 2022 American Rally Association presented by DirtFish National championship and looked well on course to extend his record of 100AW Rally victories from seven to eight. He’d put the hard yards in… Read More →
