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Posted Thursday, December 16, 2021 at 10:17pm
As sports cars become faster and faster, it gets harder to enjoy their abilities on public roads. Most of today’s sports cars don’t even get to be any fun until you’re nearly scaring yourself to death. Spare a thought for your terrified, unwitting passenger. The redesigned 2022 Subaru BRZ is different. Not only is it amazingly capable, but the fun is accessible at legal speeds. The new BRZ has something for drivers of all skill… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 11:06pm
If Nitro Rallycross seems familiar that’s because it was an event as part of the Nitro World Series starting in 2018, but now is its own thing! This sort of Rallycross stands apart from anything we’ve seen so far and stays true to its roots in America, as it is fast, loud, casual, and made for just about anybody! Low cost of entry, races all over the States, and ties to other sports including halftime… Read More →
Posted Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 9:43pm
Tommi Mäkinen hadn’t seen this one coming. He should have. But he didn’t. There he was, trying not to get his nice gold boots dirty in a very wet, very Welsh field, when a near delirious Norwegian landed in his arms. And stayed there. That was one very special Sunday for Subaru. Even more so for Petter Solberg. The 28-year-old from Spydeberg was world rally champion. His life had already evolved quite considerably from racing… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 10:15pm
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but there are Subarus everywhere you look. They’re lifted, heavily cladded, equipped with standard all-wheel drive; in other words, they’re the perfect car for people who live where it can get a bit snowy and muddy, or those who like the idea of going to such a place. The smallest of the automaker’s lifted, hatchback-like SUVs is the 2021 Subaru Crosstrek. The things are ubiquitous. And there… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 10:14pm
You don’t need to know the new 2022 Subaru BRZ’s 0-60-mph time, and there’s no reason to worry about the car’s skidpad grip. We tested both the manual and automatic transmission versions, but you shouldn’t care about those results, either. Contextualizing it by numbers misses the point. Rather, you should judge the BRZ by how it feels—how it connects you to every detail in the asphalt, in every corner, on any road. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 10:48pm
Well that was quite the finale, wasn’t it? Travis Pastrana is the 2021 Nitro Rallycross series champion after finishing fourth in the final round at the Florida International Rally and Motorsports Park level on points with Subaru Motorsports USA team-mate Scott Speed – ahead courtesy of his greater number of victories. But how does the field stack up from our perspective? For the final time this year, here’s the DirtFish Nitro Rallycross Power Rankings. Read More →
Posted Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:48pm
After soaring from one U.S. sales record to the next for more than a decade, Subaru is finally being tripped up, by ultrathin vehicle inventories. And recovering from that will take long into next year. Conceding Subaru can’t sell what it can’t build as the global semiconductor shortage drags on, CEO Tomomi Nakamura says the Japanese carmaker’s back orders now stand at around 45,000 vehicles in the U.S. That logjam is more than the 36,000… Read More →
Posted Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:47pm
Before full stardom, Bruce Willis was a dedicated actor, appearing in TV shows throughout the 1980s. These included Miami Vice. the Twilight Zone reboot, and Moonlighting. But his breakout role was as John McClane in Die Hard, released in 1988. He immediately reprised his role in Die Hard 2 and the rest of the series. This opened up opportunities such as starring in The Fifth Element, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, and M. Night Shyamalan’s The… Read More →
Posted Monday, December 6, 2021 at 11:46pm
Spy video published last month provided our first look at the next-generation 2023 Subaru XV, the third iteration of one of the brand’s best-selling models in Australia. While the XV prototype was clothed in a relatively thin layer of disguise – cutting a shape through the air not dissimilar to its predecessor – we tasked Drive’s resident Photoshop guru Theophilus Chin with stripping off the camouflage, a year ahead of the Subaru’s scheduled unveiling. In… Read More →
Posted Sunday, December 5, 2021 at 11:41pm
Scott Speed emerged as top qualifier at the Nitro Rallycross season finale at The Florida International Rally & Motorsport Park following a post-race penalty for Timmy Hansen. Hansen won the Battle Bracket final ahead of Speed, passing him late on the track’s final asphalt section, making heavy contact with the Subaru driver in the process. The move, which resulted in the front bumper of Hansen’s Peugeot completely detaching, was judged to have featured all four… Read More →
