Posted Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 9:59pm
Seeing a full-blown race car on the street will never get old. Either blasting by on the freeway or idling in traffic, they always stand out amongst the other commuter vehicles on the road. It is not entirely legal for most race cars to have them on the street. Many race cars need to be registered and have the proper lighting or the proper safety equipment to be able to do so. But for a… Read More →
Posted Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 9:56pm
Subaru of America, Inc. today reported 56,760 vehicle sales for December 2022, an 11 percent increase compared with December 2021 (51,146). With five consecutive months of sales increases, Subaru ended calendar year 2022 with 556,581 vehicles sales, a 4.7 percent decrease compared with calendar year 2021. These year-end results are reflective of the impact that the semiconductor shortage and supply chain disruptions continue to have on the automobile industry. Read More →
Posted Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 9:53pm
Regardless of whether you know it, there’s a good chance you’re a fan of Ken Block. The diversity of the man’s accomplishments and the legacy he leaves behind are so broad that, even if you only knew him as the dude that slides cars around in those videos, I’m willing to bet he’s had a bigger influence on you than you think. To Block’s oldest fans, he was the kid who lived on an avocado… Read More →
Posted Monday, January 2, 2023 at 10:39pm
Pro rally driver and Hoonigan co-founder Ken Block was killed in a snowmobile accident on Monday, Hoonigan and local authorities confirmed. Block, a prolific figure in the car community, was 55 years old. A co-founder of DC shoes, he moved into the world of rally and quickly made a name for himself, developing the Hoonigan brand and creating the much-loved Gymkhana video series. Read on… Read More →
Posted Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 10:14pm
The works R&D Sport Subaru BRZ, built to GTA-GT300 rules, took four pole positions and started from the front row six times out of eight during Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi’s title-winning 2021 season. Despite BoP adjustments being made in a bid to slow down the GTA-GT300 cars relative to their FIA GT3 rivals last year, Iguchi and Yamauchi enjoyed similar success in qualifying. The pair scored pole positions at Okayama, Fuji Round 2, Sugo… Read More →
Posted Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 10:12pm
Lists of cars that were not made for U.S-market regulations but are newly available to import under the Imported Vehicle Safety Compliance Act have become a bit commonplace on the internet these days. But we figured surely there must be an overlooked morsel, a gem waiting to be discovered. Perhaps if we found and conquered this metaphorical mound, we’d have an ideal place to fly the C/D flag, where it would proudly wave in the… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 10:09pm
Recently, Tyre Reviews got its hands on a set of Pirelli Sottozero designed for racing, as well as a Subaru rally car. That sets the stage for an incredibly entertaining comparison test between those WRC tires and some of the best street-legal studded winter tires on the market: Pirelli Ice Zero 2s. But the question wasn’t whether or not the Sottozeros would perform better than the road tires. It’s how much better they’d be. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 10:01pm
We dragged the new Subaru WRX out to our Performance Car of the Year test, pitting it against Lamborghinis and Porsches and Corvettes. That’s a tall task for any junior family car, and we applaud its heroic effort. But the arrival of any new WRX means we must engage in another time-honored tradition; We need some sort of hater’s guide. Read More →
Posted Friday, December 23, 2022 at 9:58pm
Neither I nor any of my MotorTrend cohorts involved in planning our long-term test-fleet coverage discussed this ahead of time, but one way or another, stewardship of the 2022 Subaru WRX Limited that just landed in our garage fell my way. “One way or another,” because I don’t recall how we decided I should oversee its yearlong MT stay, but it feels supremely natural if not outright preordained. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 9:57pm
Inflation is a fact of life, and cars are central to the phenomenon. Besides the obvious boost in prices, we see it in performance and capability too. Remember when 228 horsepower was a big deal, the stuff of V-8 Mustangs and Porsche 911s? Now 600 horsepower almost seems normal, and with it comes a spiral of more: more weight, more money, more digital nannies to keep it all on the road. That’s why the Subaru… Read More →
