Posted Saturday, December 30, 2023 at 9:11pm
The Prodrive P25 shouldn’t really appeal to me. As a reminder, it’s a reinterpretation of a 1997 WRC Subaru Impreza, but with 2023 components, technology and know-how. Crucially, it doesn’t require an engineering team to run it and you can – well, could – use it on the road. It does come at a price: more than £550,000. Read More →
Posted Friday, December 29, 2023 at 8:52pm
Nestled in a fairly unassuming Chichester industrial estate just down the road from Goodwood, is a rather special place. Between the various plumbing and building trade suppliers is a shrine to all things rally, known simply as Rally Replay. Rally Replay can best be described as equal parts showroom, shop and museum. I’ve made a point of stopping in every time I head to Goodwood, and the constant rotation of cars means there’s always something… Read More →
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 9:56pm
The most recent trading session ended with Subaru Corporation (FUJHY) standing at $8.97, reflecting a -0.44% shift from the previouse trading day’s closing. This change lagged the S&P 500’s daily gain of 0.14%. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 0.3%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.16%. The company’s shares have seen an increase of 1.56% over the last month, not keeping up with the Auto-Tires-Trucks sector’s gain of 5.89% and the S&P 500’s gain of 4.89%. The… Read More →
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 9:45pm
Automakers love to sell emotion and aspiration. Luxury vehicles must exude opulence. Sports cars sell on adrenaline. Trucks? Often a measure of your masculinity. In the subcompact SUV space, none of those works. There is nothing inherently exciting or luxurious about a lifted hatchback. But savvy marketers understand anything with four wheels can take you places, transporting your mind—if not your person—to anywhere but here. For many consumers, especially those with only $30,000 or so… Read More →
Posted Thursday, December 28, 2023 at 8:56pm
French-based Hyundai team 2C Competition is aiming to bring two cars to next year’s ARA series – with team manager Florent Peronnet confident they can carry the fight to Subaru and two-time champion Brandon Semenuk in 2024. It was Peronnet’s team which ran Ken Block’s American campaign last season and his daughter Lia had potentially featured in the 2C plan for 2024, before the announcement of her F1 Academy drive for Williams next year. Read More →
Posted Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 9:45pm
If you read our BRZ tS review, you know I was just in Sicily driving some Subarus. As you’ve no doubt gathered by now, the other car was the Subaru WRX TR. With the demise of the U.S. market STI at the hands of America’s goofy emissions regime the WRX TR assumes the mantle of Subaru’s most performance oriented car. It’s also the last AWD sedan you can get with a manual transmission in the… Read More →
Posted Friday, December 22, 2023 at 9:43pm
After 13 months and change, MotorTrend’s yearlong test 2022 Subaru WRX Limited sedan has regrettably left our garage. Over the course of nearly 14,000 miles, the jack-of-all-trades WRX found itself shlepping staffers around town, tackled the best driving roads the American West has to offer, road tripped, and even went overlanding. Here’s how it held up since it first arrived in our fleet. Read More →
Posted Friday, December 22, 2023 at 9:43pm
SUVs and crossovers are undeniably popular and have dominated the new-car market for years now. Compared with passenger cars such as sedans and hatchbacks, they offer the promise of extra interior practicality and all-terrain capability, among other intangible attributes. But are SUVs actually better than cars? It’s a question that depends entirely on your perspective, but we set out to answer it in objective terms as best we could. Read More →
Posted Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 9:40pm
In the Floriopoli pit garages, along the route of Sicily’s Targa Florio road race, there’s a roughly translated warning from the mayor to the residents of a local town. Dating to the race’s early days—which correspond to the invention of cars themselves—it reads, “Listen, listen. Tomorrow there is the car races. Keep inside the house children, dogs, pigs, and chickens. Who dies, dies because of their own fault, and the mayor does not take the… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 10:38pm
The original WRX TR launched in 2006 as a stripped-down, minimalist trim aimed at buyers who planned to start modding their cars the day they got home from the dealership. The moniker stood for “Tuner Ready,” and the TR went without a rear spoiler, fog lights, or a fancy stereo. Why include a nice sound system that’ll immediately be replaced by a sweet Pioneer OEL head unit with a swimming-dolphin display and a Rockford amp… Read More →
