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Posted Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 9:46pm
For car enthusiasts and casual followers of the auto industry, the most high-profile collaboration between Toyota and Subaru is likely the twin Toyota GR86 and Subaru BRZ sports cars. These were jointly developed by the two automakers, sharing both an assembly line and a Subaru-built flat-four engine. The BRZ and GR86 coupes, however, are not the only fruits of the growing partnership between Subaru and Toyota, which has owned a 20% stake in Subaru since 2019. Toyota… Read More →
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 9:45pm
Sno*Drift Rally winner and ARA National Championship leader Mark Piatkowski is on the hunt for a faster car to maintain a title tilt – but he says his feet remain firmly on the ground. Subaru driver Piatkowski won the Michigan event for the second time in five years last weekend, but his most recent victory came after rally leader Lia Block hit trouble two corners from the end and Javier Castro was excluded. “It was… Read More →
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 9:22pm
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games are on right now, and being racing enthusiasts, we’re all tuning in for the closest thing to car racing: the Bobsled events. Bobsledding requires inch-perfect collaboration between human and machine, the podium is often separated by hundredths of a second, and crashes can (and do) happen. Yeah, a bobsled is basically a car, and this sport is basically racing. Back in 2018 Subaru and Prodrive built an actual car with an… Read More →
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 9:09pm
Subaru seems keen on reintroducing a manual transmission SUV. The automaker recently sent out a survey to owners asking a few questions to gauge interest in a reintroduction. The last manual Subaru SUV left the brand’s lineup three years ago, but the survey specifically asks whether owners would consider buying a stick-shift SUV in the future. A screenshot shared to Reddit shows the survey, which asks if owners would “consider purchasing a manual transmission SUV… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 9:08pm
GREG CARLOSS: We’re heading off to the wilderness again, this time in the new 2026 Subaru Outback Wilderness. And while Outback and Wilderness may seem to be redundant, that’s how marketing jargon plays these days. This seventh-gen Outback just hit the streets a few months ago, now looking more like a true SUV than ever. Enough so that it’s our MotorWeek Drivers’ Choice Best Midsize Utility for 2026. Now we’re back from California with an… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 9:07pm
Subaru Pickups: A (Very) Abridged History Subaru doesn’t have a very long history when it comes to building pickups. They’ve only ever made two, but it’s safe to say that they’ve been memorable at least in enthusiast circles. We are, of course, talking about the Brat and the Baja. The Brat, also known as the Brumby, was based on the Leone and made from 1978 to 1994, spanning two generations. It was discontinued in America… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 8:56pm
Subaru has some priors as a small pickup truck manufacturer. In the 1970s and 1980s, Subaru built the BRAT, which avoided the prohibitive Chicken Tax by bolting seats into the bed. The Japanese brand revived the concept in the 2000s with the Outback-related Baja, which had a four-year run from 2003 to 2006. Following the Ford Maverick’s sales success, there have been rumors that Subaru may return to the American market with a new pickup.… Read More →
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 8:40pm
Subaru Australia general manager Scott Lawrence has insisted the brand’s haloed STI performance division is far from dead and will eventually start providing genuine driver’s vehicles again. Speaking to carsales at the media launch of the new-generation Subaru Outback this week, Lawrence was adamant STI was alive and well, with plenty of “exciting” work going on behind the scenes. “We are constantly discussing with Subaru Corporation about performance, and performance broadly, not just STI,” he said Read More →
Posted Monday, February 9, 2026 at 9:38pm
Japanese carmaker achieves milestone with mixed-model production line that builds EVs alongside petrol and hybrid vehicles, leveraging two decades of collaboration with Toyota to advance its electrification strategy When Subaru’s E-Outback rolled off the assembly line at its Gunma Yajima Plant in early February, it represented more than just another electric vehicle (EV) entering a crowded market. The event marked the culmination of a carefully orchestrated manufacturing transformation – one that signals how established carmakers… Read More →
Posted Monday, February 9, 2026 at 9:37pm
Out of left field, and some Toyota factories, Subaru is about to offer more electric models in its showrooms than Tesla. A three-row Subaru SUV that is electric is inbound with an imminent debut. The Japanese automaker’s been quiet about the upcoming SUV without so much as a teaser, but Jeff Walters, COO of Subaru of America, told Automotive News the Japanese company will have a yet-to-be-revealed three-row EV in its showrooms this year. That… Read More →
