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Posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 9:49pm
Last month, Subaru of Japan offered skiers a more fun way to get to the top of the hill than the usual chair lift. Over four days at the Naeba resort, situated a couple of hours by car or transit northeast of Tokyo, snowsports enthusiasts could hop in a Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid and have a pro driver slew it through the snow on the way up. Subaru calls this event the Gelande Taxi, and it’s… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 10:25pm
The 2025 World Rally Championship campaign stops off in Scandinavia for the snowy stages of Rally Sweden this week, where every fraction of a second can be crucial. Twenty years ago, that was never more apparent than in one of the event’s all-time great tussles, where two men were separated by a split-second measurement on ice. Cast your mind back to 2005. Chelsea were romping away to a then-record points haul for the Premier League… Read More →
Posted Monday, February 10, 2025 at 10:47pm
Walking across the car park towards his Subaru first thing on Saturday morning, Brandon Semenuk caught some ice. Ordinary people might well have headed south and bounced. The Canadian gathered it up and barely noticed. That was the triple American champion’s only moment in a flawless season-opening Sno*Drift Rally. He and co-driver Keaton Williams bossed round one of the ARA National Championship presented by Kubota from the start of the first stage to the end… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:42pm
As the Friday night darkness descends over the frozen fields of Michigan, Brandon Semenuk will fire up his Subaru WRX to begin a third consecutive defense of his ARA National Championship presented by Kubota crown. And the good news this year? The snow’s back in the Sno*Drift. Last month Sébastien Ogier talked about the final day of the Monte Carlo Rally sporting the right livery, showing its true colors. That’s when the snow came. It’s… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:41pm
If you’re at all like me, you’ll relate to this feeling: lost, overwhelmed and at times perplexed. What am I doing here? Do they really want to speak to me? If I just went home, would anybody notice? Imposter syndrome isn’t the one. But it’s part of what makes a lot of us who we are. For years, this was my relationship with rallying. I was an imposter. Somehow, I’ve managed to evolve that to… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:39pm
Squint at the side profile of the newest Subaru Forester and you can trace the compact SUV’s evolutionary path back to its roots as a boxy, go-anywhere crossover. The sixth generation introduced last year gives the Forester modern curb appeal, but inherited traits lay underneath. Every Forester marries a flat-four engine with standard all-wheel drive and enough extra ground clearance to comfortably handle moderate off-road treks. It’s not all old news, though, as the Forester’s… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:37pm
The 2025 Forester Hybrid fulfills one of the most natural yet overlooked pairings in all the automotive universe: a compact Subaru SUV with a hybrid powertrain. True, this isn’t the company’s first attempt at blending internal combustion and electrons, but the previous efforts focused on the smaller Crosstrek left us uninspired. The 2025 Forester Hybrid combines a version of Subaru’s familiar flat-four internal combustion engine with a pair of electric motors and ups the efficiency… Read More →
Posted Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 10:34pm
THE SOUTH OF FRANCE — The Rallye Monte-Carlo is not only the most prestigious and glamorous event in the World Rally Championship, but also the most logistically demanding. The race, which starts in Monaco and loops 1,012 miles into the Alps and back over the finish line in the Principality, presents its drivers with the most treacherous stages of any rally on Earth. Over the course of a single afternoon, drivers might encounter dry roads… Read More →
Posted Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 10:33pm
A hybrid Subaru Forester has never been sold in this country, but that’s about to change. Sure, there were a couple of hybrid Crosstreks, but their powertrains didn’t have what it takes to power the larger Forester. After all, the first 2014 Crosstrek XV hybrid made just 160 horsepower, and the 2019–23 Crosstrek Hybrid (a plug-in hybrid, actually) made only 148 horsepower. Recently, the 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid was announced with 194 horsepower, and the… Read More →
Posted Monday, February 3, 2025 at 10:28pm
Triple American Rally Association National champion Brandon Semenuk won’t have it all his own way in 2025 as Conner Martell increases his rallying commitments for the upcoming season. The esteemed rallycross racer, with experience at the top of Nitrocross, has a strong rallying CV with two victories at the Boone Forest Rally and runner-up finishes at both the Ojibwe Forests and Lake Superior Performance Rallies last year. Alongside co-driver Alex Gelsomino, the 27-year-old will again… Read More →
