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Posted Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 4:16am
Subaru has long touted the safety of its cars, and its entire lineup has earned top marks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests the past four years, but that’s for humans. According to FoxNews.com, the automaker has now teamed up with the Center for Pet Safety, a non-profit advocacy group focused on creating better equipment to protect the lives of animals during accidents. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 12, 2013 at 4:05am
The Subaru SVX remains one of the most distinctive Subarus ever built, and was full of exciting details that made it seem a bit like someone stole a little commuter spaceship from the year 2163. But how much of that look is original, and how much came from a 1985 concept car? Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 4:01am
After the Subaru BRZ became the company’s first non-all-wheel-drive car in the U.S. in a long time, it’s clear the Japanese automaker has come a long way since the first production Subaru arrived in 1968. That car was the 360 microcar, which we take a closer look at in the videos below. While most automakers wouldn’t advertise their cars as being cheap and ugly, Subaru did. In fact, those were the 360′s strongest selling points.… Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 4:00am
In order to show off their new automotive technology called “Eye Sight,” Subaru recently released a commercial starring miniature cars. Filmed without a single frame of CGI or a blink of sleep for 60 hours, the wonderland of a commercial is surprisingly beautiful! We do hope that the actual cars in the dealer lots will fit normal-sized people though… Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 3:57am
Subaru announced details on the 2014 WRX and WRX STI but it won’t be the new-generation we were expecting. We’ll have to wait until the 2015 model year to see the new design. We’ve seen the next-gen performance car testing in Germany and in California, but the 2014 models continue with the same drivetrain. Read More →
Posted Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 4:34am
What car company’s stock has risen the most — fivefold — since the beginning of 2012? Besides Tesla Motors Inc. It’s Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., maker of Subaru. Profits and sales are heading toward records after the company benefited more than most Japanese carmakers from the weakening of the yen and as new models such as the BRZ sports car have become so popular that U.S. consumers need to wait months to get one. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 5, 2013 at 4:19am
In its second year on the market, the 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek continues as a bona fide success for the small Japanese maker of all-wheel-drive cars. The high-riding hatchback compact crossover seems to appeal to a lot of buyers who don’t want the bulk of “compact” crossover wagons that get ever larger. Read More →
Posted Monday, August 5, 2013 at 3:45am
Former European RallyCross Champion Sverre Isachsen achieved his first X Games medal this weekend at X Games Los Angeles, the Global RallyCross Championship’s most high-profile event, piloting his 2013 Subaru WRX STI Rallycross car. The Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team driver expertly won his heat race and then overcame a false start penalty in the Final to finish 3rd overall in the hotly contested Global RallyCross event at the Irwindale Event Center. The podium finish is… Read More →
Posted Sunday, August 4, 2013 at 3:36am
Travis Pastrana was calling to the front of his Nationwide Series hauler, trying to direct his wife, Lyn-Z, to the place where the Red Bull hat that actually fit was located, when the subject of his high-profile BASE jumping excursion arose. Team owner Jack Roush had supposedly quashed three of his drivers’ hopes of accompanying the freestyle motocrosser/rallyist/action sports star-turned-NASCAR driver, but the story was “overblown,” Pastrana said. Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 4:12am
There are only two car manufacturers in the world that use “flat” engines, Porsche and Subaru. The flat layout, also commonly called “boxers” due to the opposing cylinders punching towards one another horizontally when fired, has two undeniable engineering benefits. The first is that the engines lend themselves to being mounted very low within the car, allowing a lower center of gravity. Secondly, the natural positioning of the cylinders in this configuration effectively cancels a… Read More →
