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Posted Monday, July 15, 2013 at 3:55am
The 2014 Subaru Forester XT may not be the first pick for adventurers who want to explore the plains of Africa, but host Arthur St. Antoine selects that vehicle for just such a mission in the newest episode of Epic Drives. While Land Rovers and Toyota Land Cruisers are the most common sets of wheels found traversing the African landscape, the compact Forester proves to be a worthy off-roader for a safari. Read More →
Posted Monday, July 15, 2013 at 3:53am
To celebrate his return to international competition on next week’s European championship-counting Sibiu Rally in a Stohl Racing Subaru Impreza R4 STI, here are five Toshi Arai facts to get you in the mood. Read More →
Posted Saturday, July 13, 2013 at 3:37am
Global RallyCross -GRC makes a one day stop at New Hampshire International Speedway for round number 4 of the 2013 Championship. After coming off one of the best course layouts to date for the GRC in Munich Germany, it was for the most part back to where we were last year with a course layout that used over 70 % of the Loudon Speedway track, which I have to say can get mundane at times… Read More →
Posted Friday, July 12, 2013 at 3:32am
Toomas Heikkinen won his second consecutive Global Rallycross event of the nine-race season, capturing first place in the Sylvania Silverstar zXe at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Thursday. Heikkinen overtook Tanner Foust after a last-corner accident ended Foust’s dominating run. Read More →
Posted Friday, July 12, 2013 at 3:18am
Toyota’s redesigned RAV4 small SUV got the worst-possible score in an especially demanding crash test by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The 2013 RAV4 got a “poor” ranking in what the IIHS calls the “front small overlap” test. Read More →
Posted Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 3:10am
Let’s talk about mud, you guys. It’s bad news. Not only can it ruin that one nice pair of pants you have, it can also wash away your car in a filthy, gushing torrent. Just ask John Schroyer, a video editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette, whose Subaru wagon was carried off wholesale by a river of mud in the Waldo Canyon burn scar following a massive rainstorm on Wednesday. P Read More →
Posted Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 3:09am
Somehow — and don’t ask me how — John Davis and the crew from MotorWeek once managed to get their hands on what is arguably the baddest production Subaru of all time, the Impreza 22Bi STi. Get ready to be blown away. That’s an impressive get, considering that the right-hand-drive, 350 horsepower 22B was never sold on our shores. I won’t even ask about the bribes and blackmail that must have gone into making this… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 4:04am
Subaru is already having to increase production of the 2014 XV Crosstrek Hybrid because of incredible customer response. Can you have both all-wheel-drive and fuel-efficiency? What is Subaru doing to create such a strong demand for their first hybrid that it is already breaking sales targets by huge margins? Subaru Japan has just announced that demand for their first hybrid model is outstripping their projected sales targets by more than ten times. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 2:58am
Records are meant to be broken. Even really, really obscure ones. And that’s exactly what Itasca and Subaru officials hope to do Saturday. The village and Subaru of America Inc. Great Lakes Region, which is based in Itasca, will attempt to break their current Guinness World Record for the largest parade of Subaru cars. In July 2009 Subaru set the record with 339 vehicles parading along a 4.2-mile route through Itasca. The village and Subaru… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 2:53am
If any carmaker should already have had a hybrid in its lineup, it’s Subaru. We’ve said that before, and before the end of the year, we’ll know much more about the 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid that was unveiled at last spring’s New York Auto Show. But it turns out that Subaru now has two unexpected hits on its hands. In Japan, the company announced, it received 5,850 orders for the Crosstrek Hybrid in just… Read More →
