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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 9:21pm
The cynics among us thought the Subaru BRZ and its near identical Toyota twin, the GT 86, were doomed. Launched in 2013, these compact, lightweight, and modestly powered rear-drivers enjoyed agile handling and easy chuckability. They left us smitten, even if they seemed increasingly out of step as the years passed while the world tripped out on mega-horsepower and 23-inch wheel and tire combos. Mercifully, the world isn’t as SUV-minded as we’d feared, and both… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 9:17pm
Subaru Motorsports USA driver Travis Pastrana and co-driver Rhianon Gelsomino won Minnesota’s Ojibwe Forests Rally, earning their fourth victory through six events of the 2021 American Rally Association (ARA) National Championship season and repeating their 2020 win at the Ojibwe event. Since teaming up for the first time at this rally last year, the crew of the #199 Subaru WRX STI have racked up five wins and eight podium finishes over nine events and have… Read More →
Posted Friday, August 27, 2021 at 11:10pm
Subaru will transform the next generation of the Levorg into what will essentially be a wagon version of the WRX, according to a rumor from CarExpert in Australia. Now the bad news: at the moment, this report potentially only applies to the land Down Under, meaning folks elsewhere wouldn’t get this speedy, all-wheel-drive estate. “The Levorg has proven itself as a niche performance wagon, and will morph into something slightly different in its next generation,”… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2021 at 11:10pm
The trickle of information continues about the new 2022 Subaru WRX with the latest teaser photo and a video clip that shows the new sport compact kicking up dust. We also now know that the new turbocharged, all-wheel-drive sedan will make its official debut in just a few short weeks, on September 10. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:06pm
Earlier this year, Subaru showed off the Outback Wilderness, a new trim level that took the already rugged wagon-turned-crossover and prepped it for more serious off-road duties. Now Subaru is applying the Wilderness badge to a new member of their lineup, with teasers hinting that it might be the Forester SUV. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 23, 2021 at 11:05pm
At the hands of Colin McRae, the Subaru WRX STI became a legend, with over 200 horsepower all-wheel drive, real-world practicality, and a distinctive engine sound that made the car a force to be reckoned with. Battling against Mitsubishi’s Lancer Evo series of vehicles, the Subaru often came out on top and is one of the iconic cars from the nineties and early 2000s. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 10:17pm
Subaru’s Impreza WRX was born from rally, and the brand owes a large chunk of its motorsport history to one man – Noriyuki Koseki. He’s one of a few key people who helped create Subaru Technica International (STI) – the brand’s motorsport division. Even before he helped develop world-beating road and race Subarus, he was racing them on his own time and money. In the late 1960s, Koseki founded a local motorsport club in his… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 10:14pm
Update 08/16/2021: With the cancellation of the New York International Auto Show, Subaru has pushed back the reveal date of the 2022 WRX, according to the automaker. This story, originally published 07/21/2021, has been updated to reflect this. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 16, 2021 at 10:13pm
Subaru Motorsports USA driver Travis Pastrana set a new record of 5 minutes, 28.67 seconds at Sunday’s 2021 Mt. Washington Hillclimb on the way to an overall victory at the wheel of the Airslayer STI, his 862-horsepower Gymkhana 2020 Subaru WRX STI. The new mark cut more than sixteen seconds from his winning time from the 2017 race up the narrow, steep and treacherous 7.6-mile Mt. Washington Auto Road. Pastrana blitzed the mountain to set… Read More →
Posted Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 9:53pm
There’s no other way to put it, rally drivers are truly a different breed. Their ability to read the road ahead with the help of pace notes while traveling over 100 mph on tight forest roads is simply astonishing. In changing weather conditions, rally drivers battle through gravel, asphalt, mud, dust, and even snow-covered roads while racing against the clock. Simply put, top drivers of the World Rally Championship have mastered the art of driving… Read More →
