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Posted Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 10:52pm
In August 2023, Subaru sold 915 Solterras, and in August 2024, it sold 1,417 of its BEV – a 55% increase. Year-to-date, 8,063 Solterras have sold – that’s a nearly 74% jump over 2023, when 4,645 Solterras sold. It’s probably not a coincidence that the Subaru Solterra was the most discounted car – including gas cars – in the US in August. The Solterra’s starting price last month was $46,340, and it sells for 12%… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 10:51pm
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today reported 63,053 vehicle sales for August 2024, an increase of 11.8 percent compared with August 2023 (56,407). SOA also reported year-to-date sales of 437,198 a 6.4 percent increase compared with the same period in 2023. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 10:49pm
For those looking to find strong Auto-Tires-Trucks stocks, it is prudent to search for companies in the group that are outperforming their peers. Is Subaru Corporation (FUJHY) one of those stocks right now? A quick glance at the company’s year-to-date performance in comparison to the rest of the Auto-Tires-Trucks sector should help us answer this question. Read More →
Posted Monday, September 2, 2024 at 10:46pm
espite its Impreza 555 being lightning quick and scoring a podium straight out of the box, it took Subaru almost a year to claim the model’s first win in the World Rally Championship. It was not the straightforward affair Carlos Sainz’s eventual winning margin of four minutes would suggest, as team-mate Colin McRae was controversially excluded for alleged unsportsmanlike behavior. We’re rewinding the clock back 30 years to remember this tale, to a time when… Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 10:43pm
It is against the law to touch a sea otter. Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act, you’re not even supposed to get within a few feet of them, which can be a challenge when you’re kayaking in the Elkhorn Slough along the California coast and curious otters keep popping up next to you. “Just row away from them,” said our guide, with the patient voice of a man who spends… Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 10:41pm
The thundering of cowbells and spectators in camp chairs look on. And then, a faint but suddenly distinctive “pop,” and a highly tuned rally car, trailed by clouds upon clouds of dust, emerges. These are just some of the sights and sounds from April’s Olympus Rally, an annual two-day gathering here near the base of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula that’s part endurance racing, part car show and part celebration of all things Subaru. Read More →
Posted Friday, August 30, 2024 at 10:35pm
Halfway through 2024, you’d have got incredibly long odds on anything other than another Brandon Semenuk title win. Even the return of Subaru Motorsports USA team-mate Travis Pastrana did nothing to destabilize the dominant Canadian, who after April’s Olympus Rally had won 12 American Rally Association National events on the bounce. But after a second DNF in three starts, and a first win in three years for Pastrana at last weekend’s Ojibwe Forests Rally, suddenly… Read More →
Posted Friday, August 30, 2024 at 10:32pm
Subaru’s Bifuka Proving Ground in Hokkaido, Japan, now utilizes a local sub-6 5G standalone (SA) network, which is an infrastructure that uses the spectrum below 6GHz and covers the entire circuit in the Subaru R&E Center. According to the company, the local 5G network across Subaru’s test course is the first to be used by a Japanese car maker. The network is trialling the use of cooperative driving automation. Read More →
Posted Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 10:37pm
Madelyn Tabor woke up one morning to a message that may end up changing her entire life trajectory. “I woke up to the email and I was like, look at this! Like half awake. I was like, ‘oh my god!’” Tabor tells DirtFish. Tabor, a regular competitor in the American Rally Association National championship’s NA4WD category in a 1999 Subaru Impreza, had elected to apply for the World Rally Championship’s Beyond Rally initiative, which aims… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 10:33pm
Subaru Corporation has installed a local sub-6*1 5G standalone (SA)*2 network covering the entire circuit at Bifuka Proving Ground in the Subaru R&E Center (Hokkaido, Japan), and begun trialing cooperative driving automation. Chiefly tasked with overseeing advanced research, the Subaru R&E Center has previously worked on automated driving systems using mobile communications. This time, harnessing the high-speed, highly reliable connectivity environment provided by the local 5G SA network, the center has begun testing coordination control*3,… Read More →
