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Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 10:08pm
There was a time—and this wasn’t that long ago—that buying a Subaru meant making some sacrifices. In exchange for your symmetrical all-wheel-drive system, practicality, safety, and a friendly dog-loving image, you gave up things like sound deadening, an interior you actually wanted to spend time in, and reliability (Can somebody say “head gaskets?”). With the 2025 Subaru Forester, it’s clear that Subaru is keen to put those days behind us. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 10:06pm
If—hypothetically speaking, of course—we found ourselves without cell service or GPS, we would be just as helpless as everyone else whose memory of a pre-Google Maps world is fading. How do we know? We trekked out to the Paws Up Ranch in Montana to drive the new 2025 Subaru Forester and found out firsthand when we got lost in the kind of way that’s only possible in the forest-covered mountains of Big Sky Country. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 10:03pm
Even with decades of rally pedigree behind the Subaru WRX name, it’s easy to forget where the AWD sedan is truly at home. Sliding on loose surfaces and jumping through a row of trees is where the Subaru WRX still performs best, as the folks at Team O’Neil Rally School tested recently. Without the WRX STI in the lineup, Wyatt from Team O’Neil set out to test the remnants of Subaru’s sport sedan lineup on… Read More →
Posted Monday, May 6, 2024 at 10:00pm
I just drove the all-new sixth-generation Subaru Forester, more specifically the Forester Sport, through some of the wilderness of western Montana. When I was first handed the keys to this Sapphire Pearl Blue crossover, it was spotless. That quickly changed as I went up and down mountains, through flooded roads and across snow and ice. I think the Forester is a fairly good-looking car right from the jump. However, I cannot deny that it looks… Read More →
Posted Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 9:54pm
Japan’s Subaru Corp slashed its annual output target by nearly 10% on Wednesday amid ongoing fallout from a semiconductor shortage that continues to hamper automakers around the world. The carmaker said the shortages were most acute among parts for immediate delivery in the spot market and it expected the lack of supply to last at most until around June before recovering. Subaru said it now expects to produce 880,000 vehicles this fiscal year through March,… Read More →
Posted Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 9:53pm
Nobody likes a poser, we can all safely agree on that. Self-expression, trying new things, learning to be comfortable in one’s own skin are all commendable. Trying to be somebody or something you’re not, in an attempt to get attention? Not so much. In the world of new SUVs, this translates to “off-road” packages with nothing more than slapping on burlier tires, some black styling bits, maybe a roof rack, and if you’re lucky, higher… Read More →
Posted Friday, May 3, 2024 at 9:51pm
The 2025 Subaru WRX Sportwagon is coming to Mexico and adding yet another slice of forbidden fruit to the auto market just south of us, which car enthusiasts in the U.S., unfortunately, have no access to. The Mexican market is so tantalizingly close, and, yet, so far away—especially for car lovers who live along the southern border and thus get to see Mexican cars on a regular basis, like yours truly. For the first time… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 9:54pm
t’s said that life imitates art–and vice versa. In this case, director Luke Jaden borrowed from his own life for a Subaru Outback spec film that tugs at the heartstrings. However, the short tugged so movingly that Subaru embraced the piece and is using it. A young family realizes that the Australian Shepherd they rescued–named Finley–is too confined in their suburban neighborhood of tightly clustered homes. So they get in their Subaru Outback and trek… Read More →
Posted Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 9:45pm
In an updated test that evaluated the performance of the crash avoidance systems of 10 popular, small SUVs, few models excelled. Only the 2023-24 Subaru Forester earned a good rating. The first results of the new vehicle-to-vehicle front crash prevention testing program, aimed to encourage automakers to improve crash avoidance systems, were announced on Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry. “The vast majority of new vehicles… Read More →
Posted Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 9:43pm
Last year was supposed to be a celebration: 50 years of stage rallying in America. That’s 50 years of organized competition on dirt, snow, and ice-covered roads in the vast wilderness of America. A half-century of car modifications, roll cages, and bonfires. Instead, 2023 became the year of loss and grief. In fact, the previous 19 months have hit the rally world hard: three deaths during rallies and two other drivers, including one of the… Read More →
