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Posted Monday, September 13, 2021 at 10:34pm
lmost nine years since the game-changing original BRZ went on sale in Australia (alongside its Toyota 86 twin), Subaru’s rear-drive, flat-four sports coupe is back for generation two, and it’s already a sales hit. Offered in two high-grade spec levels – BRZ Coupe ($38,990) and BRZ Coupe S ($40,190), with a six-speed auto costing $3,800 more – online and dealer orders opened a week ago and already more than 50 percent of the initial 500-unit… Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:30pm
Subaru teases more and more images of its upcoming all-electric Solterra SUV, which will be launched in 2022 (including Japan, the U.S., Canada, Europe and China). This new model will be built on the on the e-Subaru Global Platform, but technically it’s a platform developed with Toyota, which calls its platform the e-TNGA. It’s the same thing as both companies have announced in 2019 partnership on both the platform and the all-electric SUV. Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:28pm
Six of Japan’s big automakers, including Toyota Motor, will cut production plans for the current fiscal year by more than 1 million vehicles, a decrease on the same level as the previous year that saw a major cutback due to the coronavirus pandemic. The impact of the surge in coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia, which is a major supply base for in-vehicle semiconductors, is the main cause for the cuts, and is also being felt… Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:19pm
When you think about the things a Lamborghini Urus and a Subaru WRX have in common, you probably don’t imagine a list that’s too long. They both have all-wheel-drive, turbocharged engines, and, beyond that, not much comes to mind other than dad jokes such as “four wheels” and all the rest. Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:18pm
At the moment, the Levorg doesn’t have a high-performance derivative. The sole engine option in the wagon is a 1.8-liter turbo. Dubbed the CB18, its more efficient than the engine it replaced. However, its 174 horsepower rating won’t exactly get pulses racing. But there is news from Australia that Subaru might just inject some adrenaline into the station wagon. Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:16pm
According to a 2011 study by AAA and pet-product maker Kurgo, more than half of American dog owners roll with a canine co-pilot, and a third of them admit that their furry buddy can be a driving distraction. Figuring out the best method of terrier transport has been a puzzle since the earliest days of automobiles. Here are a few milestones along the way. Read More →
Posted Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10:12pm
Subaru’s rally legacy started, fittingly, with a car called the Legacy, but it reached the peak of World Rally Championship success with the Impreza. Blue Imprezas with yellow accents defined the company’s brief moment in the rallying sun, inspired the WRX line, and briefly cemented the company’s all-wheel-drive road cars as pedigreed world-beaters. This car, a 2005 Impreza WRC2005, is a running-and-driving testament to those glory days. Read More →
Posted Friday, September 10, 2021 at 10:10pm
Subaru launched the all-wheel-drive, rally-inspired sport compact craze in the U.S. the early 2000s with the WRX. Others followed such as the Ford Focus RS, Mazdaspeed 3, and Mitsubishi Lancer. But those cars have all come and gone, leaving the WRX and the new Volkswagen Golf R as the only remaining vehicles in this space. The pioneering Subie is now entering its new generation with only a bit more power, but it rides on a… Read More →
Posted Friday, September 10, 2021 at 10:09pm
Now that Ford, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and many others have dropped out of the sport-compact segment, Subaru and Volkswagen are among the few automakers still burning the affordable performance flame. And there’s a lot of new stuff to digest for the 2022 model year, as Subaru has just debuted a new WRX and VW is bringing over the new Mk 8 Golf GTI and Golf R hot hatchbacks. Read More →
Posted Friday, September 10, 2021 at 10:08pm
It’s the go-anywhere, rip the HOA, and hoon like a hero part of Subaru. It’s Colin McRae’s 1995 World Rally Championship, and bug-eyed blue sedans that could have been styled using Play-Doh by a six-year-old. It’s not about cute little paw stickers in the back of an Outback hauling Labradoodles around Vermont. It’s about the WRX. That’s the Subaru that’s worth loving, craving and worshipping. And it’s been reformulated for 2022 in a new extra-strength… Read More →
