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 →
Posted Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 4:09am
Kenya: The police force has spent over Sh300 million on new vehicles. In what seems to be a peculiar shift of allegiance, the police have settled for the latest Subaru Forester model, a departure from the Land Rover and Land Cruiser. Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 3:31am
Malcolm Bricklin will talk about his past if you ask. That’s where he learned his lessons. But he’d rather talk about the future and what’s next. Bricklin has made and lost fortunes, then made them again. Through it all, he’s still so full of positive energy he makes the Little Engine That Could seem like a total drudge. Read More →
Posted Friday, August 2, 2013 at 4:51am
Watch David Higgins practicing for the upcoming X Games.. Read More →
Posted Friday, August 2, 2013 at 4:04am
Harvey Lamm, then-president, Subaru of America, confirmed that the Japanese automaker was planning to bring a multipurpose four-wheel-drive vehicle to the States with introductions penned for the fall of 1977. Read More →
