Posted Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 10:08pm
Jensen said a man and a woman drove up to look at the Subaru, then the man wanted to take it for a spin. At first he asked Jensen to come along but … Read More →
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 11:41pm
The Ascent may not be the street-legal rally wagon of three-row CUVs, but those figures are perfectly competitive for the segment. And out on the road, it quickly becomes clear that the Ascent is exactly what Subaru needed it to be. Take the design, for instance. It doesn’t break any new ground, but you won’t mistake it for anything other than a Subaru. That wasn’t the case with the Ascent’s oddly styled predecessor, the B9… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 11:31pm
Vehicles come loaded with so much technology these days that it can be difficult to take it all in during a short test drive. Because I test more than 50 cars a year, certain tech features stand out as either positive or negative and on how they compare with other vehicles in the same class. Subaru’s last attempt at a three-row SUV, the Tribeca, didn’t turn out so well. Due to its polarizing appearance and… Read More →
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 12:27am
If there’s one thing I want people to take away from reading Jalopnik—besides obviously that Florida is terrifying—it’s that you have to be smart when you’re buying a used performance car. Has it been crashed? Has it been subjected to shady mods? Does it have secret problems lurking within? And in the case of the Subaru WRX, has anyone vaped in it? Read More →
Posted Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 12:23am
Will he or won’t he? As President Trump toys with his controversial plan to impose 25% tariffs on car imports into the U.S., carmakers from Tokyo to Stuttgart await the outcome with baited breath. These automakers have need to worry. A precedent has been set. Trump has already imposed tariffs of 25% on $34 billion worth of imports from China and Beijing retaliated in kind with $34 billion in tariffs on American goods including soybeans.… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:54pm
The all-new 2019 Subaru Ascent is a solid return for the brand to the three-row SUV class. In addition to familiar styling that still adheres to the automaker’s design language found in its popular smaller SUVs/wagons, the Ascent upholds Subaru’s time-honored tradition of safety, practicality and affordability. Its interior quality stands out, its noise-canceling abilities are at luxury-class levels, and its standard all-wheel drive and EyeSight safety suite make it a competitive entrant to an… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 11:47pm
Fifteen hours of travel and a vaguely nauseating drive to 6,600 feet in elevation came down to three seconds of action: Rally master Mark Higgins burst through dense Romanian fog in Subaru’s purpose-built STI time-attack racer, howled past our vantage point and … vanished again into another fog bank. Thanks to murky weather, it was an anticlimactic glimpse of an otherwise remarkable attempt: Subaru managed to grease enough government palms to shut down 84 kilometers… Read More →
Posted Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:18pm
The quirky company, beloved on the coasts, is taking a risk with its largest vehicle to date. How far has Subaru come during its 60 years of selling cars? Roughly seven feet. That’s the difference lengthwise between its first vehicle, the diminutive “360” later dubbed “the ladybug,” and a pumped up new SUV called the Ascent. Make no mistake. The Ascent is a Texas-sized rig, thoroughly incongruous with its creator’s climate-conscious, blue-state reputation. It’s a… Read More →
Posted Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:13pm
Subaru is a once-tiny manufacturer that grew in leaps and bounds thanks to high demand from the United States. The automaker is the eighth best-selling brand in the region, despite being a scrappy upstart, and has managed multiply its volume many since the 1990s. But, like any business loaded into a cannon with the word “success” emblazoned on the side, it can’t continue streaming through the clouds indefinitely without encountering some turbulence. Read More →
Posted Monday, July 16, 2018 at 11:10pm
Even with less concealment, the next-gen sedan still looks a lot like the current model. New spy shots of the next-gen Subaru Legacy are here, and they show a lot more of the new sedan than the previous, heavily concealed test mule. This one only appears to wear camouflage, and there’s no evidence of extra cladding to hide the body. According to the spy photographer, this one was on the road in Detroit. Read More →
