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Posted Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 8:22pm
With just over a month to go before the American Rally Association descends on Michigan for the season opener, ARA competition director Preston Osborn has talked about the excitement building for 2024. The Atlanta-based Sno*Drift Rally kick starts an eight-round season that features Tennessee’s Overmountain Rally for the first time. “There’s a real buzz about this season,” Osborn told DirtFish. “We have Travis [Pastrana] back with Subaru, which is fantastic. It’s going to be fascinating… Read More →
Posted Friday, January 5, 2024 at 8:16pm
OY, PIONEERS! Please tell me you’re not taking the average compact crossover wagon into the boonies. The salesperson might have told you it had all-wheel drive, and it probably does, sort of. But such systems are often surprisingly feeble off road. In some situations—extracting on any kind of incline, for example—front-biased, on-demand AWD systems can simply refuse to turn any wheel, leaving you stuck. Then you have to eat the dog. Read More →
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 9:21pm
In December, Subaru of America increased its car sales in the United States for the 17th consecutive month to 57,764 (up 1.8% year-over-year). In 2023, the company sold 632,083 cars, which is 13.6% more than a year ago. Our main focus is on the all-electric Subaru Solterra model (introduced in partnership with Toyota), which continues to sell at around 1,000 units a month. Read More →
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 9:20pm
Prodrive’s 7-car Dakar attack: ‘It’s a whole championship in one event’ Read More →
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2024 at 9:20pm
Subaru Corporation (FUJHY) ended the recent trading session at $8.99, demonstrating a +0.11% swing from the preceding day’s closing price. The stock’s change was more than the S&P 500’s daily loss of 0.8%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.76%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 1.18%. The company’s stock has dropped by 0.4% in the past month, falling short of the Auto-Tires-Trucks sector’s gain of 2.6% and the S&P 500’s gain of 3.4%. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 9:34pm
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today reported 17 consecutive months of increased sales with 57,764 vehicles sold for December 2023, a 1.8 percent increase compared with December 2022 (56,760). Subaru ended calendar year 2023 with 632,086 vehicle sales, a 13.6 percent increase compared with calendar year 2022. Read More →
Posted Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 9:33pm
The new Subaru BRZ tS offers a different path to greatness than the WRX TR. If you want your own 2024 Subaru BRZ tS, you won’t be left to the whims of fate or excessive dealer markups. The original tS, launched near the end of the first-gen BRZ’s production run, was limited to exactly 500 copies built over a two-month span in early 2018. Come early 2024, Subaru will unleash a new tS, based on… Read More →
Posted Monday, January 1, 2024 at 9:24pm
What was the cheapest new four-wheel-drive car available in the United States during the early 1990s? No, it wasn’t the Subaru Loyale sedan, nor was it the Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz AWD. It was the Subaru Justy 4WD, a tiny three-cylinder machine available here for the 1988 through 1994 model years. Today’s Junkyard Gem is one of those now-rare cars, found in a Northern California boneyard a few months back. Read More →
Posted Sunday, December 31, 2023 at 9:21pm
This year has been a rollercoaster ride for everyone involved in rallying. Time to reflect on our memories of the year. We asked our staff to each select a standout memory of 2023. Read More →
Posted Saturday, December 30, 2023 at 9:14pm
NHTSA unveiled a proposal on May 31 to require that all new passenger vehicles, trucks, and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less to have AEB capable of braking to fully avoid a crash with another vehicle at up to 50 mph, with a four-year grace period from the date the eventual rule is adopted. If the regulation is adopted in its present form, vehicles will also have to be… Read More →
