Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 10:16pm
Last week marked 20 years since Petter Solberg won the 2003 World Rally Championship, defeating Sébastien Loeb by just a single championship point. Loeb of course then went on to dominate the succeeding nine seasons with Citroën, but what if he had moved teams? We know Malcolm Wilson once made him an offer to join Ford for 2006, but two years earlier another team held advanced discussions with Loeb… Subaru. Read More →
Posted Monday, November 13, 2023 at 10:34pm
As much as we all love being in the driving seat, few of us take the wheel for our last journey by car. Instead, it’s up to our loved ones to pick a suitable carriage to place us in our final resting place. If you’re lucky enough to live in the UK, and you’re unequivocally rally mad, your family and friends might deem it suitable to send you off in a Subaru WRX, converted into… Read More →
Posted Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 10:32pm
Winning is everything to any competitor in any form of motorsport. But winning at home always means that little bit more. The focus here is generally on the driver, who in World Rally Championship terms is bound to benefit from a dose of local knowledge, passionate support and just general familiarity with their surroundings. But the will to succeed on home soil extends to manufacturers as well; not least because it’s the ultimate promotional material… Read More →
Posted Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 10:29pm
Motor sport was born on public roads with city-to-city endurance races, then flat-out sprints that evolved into grands prix. But in more than a century of the format, we’ve never seen a street circuit like this: constructed in one of the world’s most tightly-packed megacities, racing along the waterfront and bringing off-road competition to the heart of Hong Kong. This weekend’s World Rallycross season finale is breaking new ground — using 2000 cubic square metres… Read More →
Posted Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 10:21pm
Photos of the new 2025 Subaru Forester have surfaced online ahead of its formal unveiling at the Los Angeles motor show late next week. A gallery of 49 images posted to Imgur and social media website Reddit shows all angles of the sixth-generation Forester – the first new model since 2018, expected to be a ‘reskin’ of its predecessor rather than an all-new vehicle. Australian arrival timing is expected to be announced after Subaru unveils… Read More →
Posted Friday, November 10, 2023 at 10:19pm
Jimmy Pelizzari and his co-driver Kate Stevens are recently back from the Lake Superior Performance Rally, their first outing in a new car. They finished, but not as well as they’re used to, having risen through the ARA ranks from novices struggling in a cool but snakebit Mazda 323 GTX to regular podium finishers in a GC 2.5RS. It was a shakedown in a new car, and some little new car issues held them back.… Read More →
Posted Friday, November 10, 2023 at 10:15pm
Watch Ken Block and his Hoonitron take over Mexico in the trailer for Electrikhana TWO. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:12pm
The futuristic concept of flying cars has just inched another step closer to reality. Following on from Alef Aviation’s “Model A” gaining an airworthiness certificate earlier in 2023, a more well-known manufacturer has debuted its own flying vehicle concept. However, unlike the “Model A,” Subaru has eschewed traditional styling on its Air Mobility concept and instead opted for something that could best be described as looking like a large drone. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10:08pm
The Subaru Outback is the brand’s most well-known shooting brake or station wagon. The Subaru SVX was a complete flop, but if it had gained more sales traction during its five-year production run from 1992 to 1997, it would have spawned a station wagon variant called the Amadeus. Brimming with success from producing quirky econoboxes during the 80s and early 90s, Subaru introduced the Alcyone SVX Concept in 1989 as a design study of a… Read More →
Posted Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 10:04pm
Subaru’s second-generation BRZ traces its roots to an obscure, wedge-shaped coupe that only the geekiest enthusiasts remember: the XT. Not many of these were built, and few were preserved, but an example that looks surprisingly well-kept has popped up on Cars & Bids. Released globally in 1985, and sold as the Alcyone in Japan, the XT wasn’t the first coupe to wear a Subaru emblem; the original Leone was notably only offered with two doors… Read More →
