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Posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 9:53pm
Glance down the nearest street and odds are good you’ll see a crossover. Lightweight not-quite SUVs make up roughly half of the 25 bestselling passenger vehicles in the United States, scooping up more and more of the market with each turn of the calendar. Ever wonder why Detroit’s Big Three currently sell only one sedan between them? It’s because buyers don’t want cars, they want car-like SUVs—and nearly every every automaker has its own interpretation.… Read More →
Posted Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 9:43pm
If you’re an automotive enthusiast, you know that Jerry Seinfeld is really into Porsches. If you’re a Seinfeld fan, then you know that Jerry drives Saabs. And also, he really hates it when he reserves a mid-size and you give him the keys to a blue Ford Escort. But in real life, it turns out Jerry Seinfeld is a fan of pancake motors of a different sort. Speaking on ‘The Smoking Tire’ podcast this week,… Read More →
Posted Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 10:42pm
Six-time American champion Travis Pastrana will give Subaru’s all-new WRX its debut when he returns to the ARA National Championship presented by Kubota at next month’s Olympus Rally. The Vermont SportsCar-developed Subaru – a step down from the WRX ARA25 factory car defending champion Brandon Semenuk is using this season – will run in the Limited 4WD category. Pastrana says his shift to the second-tier class is an effort to bring more drivers to rallying… Read More →
Posted Friday, April 4, 2025 at 10:39pm
Rally racing has always carried a certain mystique — dirt-spraying drifts, high-revving engines, and fearless drivers threading cars through forests and over gravel at speeds that feel almost impossible. But for many fans, it’s also felt just out of reach, like something reserved for pros with deep pockets and factory-built machines. Travis Pastrana — yes, the guy who jumps motorcycles over helicopters and flies Subarus through the air — wants to change that. Read More →
Posted Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 10:32pm
We’ve bemoaned the refreshed 2025 Subaru Forester for its lack of vitality, but that was before we had a chance to drive something that’s never before existed: the Subaru Forester Hybrid. This changes more than you’d think. Yes, there’s a bump in fuel economy: from 28 mpg combined (with 19-inch wheels) or 29 mpg (with 17- or 18-inchers) for the regular Forester to 35 mpg combined for the hybrid. And for some people that’d be… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 11:04pm
Travis Pastrana is one of the world’s greatest stunt drivers, with an illustrious rally career and a penchant for pulling off stunts that makes him one of the few drivers in the world who are able to pull of the moves that he can behind the wheel of any car. His latest car made for impressive stunts and tricks is a collaboration with Subaru Motorsports, the “Family Huckster,” which is based on the Subaru GL… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 10:31pm
Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) today reported 71,478 vehicle sales for March 2025, a 16.6 percent increase compared with March 2024. March 2025 marked the best-ever sales month in the history of the company, topping the current record set in August 2019 (70,039). SOA also reported year-to-date sales of 166,957, a 9.1 percent increase compared to Q1 2024. March marked the 32nd consecutive month of month-over-month sales increases for the automaker. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 10:29pm
Not so long ago, resto-mods were almost exclusively reserved for big dollar classics and vintage supercars. But exclusivity no more, just in the last couple of years we’ve seen the JDM space sprout a few of its own resto-mods; the Built By Legends GTR’s and TOM’s Supra just to name a few. That’s where the Prodrive P25 comes in. However, there’s a considerable difference between the P25 and other existing resto-mods, and that is production… Read More →
Posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 11:03pm
Ken Block is a person whose legacy is only going to grow with age. As the creator of the famed Hoonigan and DC brands, he’s propelled alternative sports into the mainstream, even if he was constantly battling his fair share of criticism. Block started at a professional level in 2005 with a strong start in Rally America driving a Subaru WRX STI prepared by Vermont SportsCar. He placed well and got Rookie of the Year,… Read More →
Posted Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 10:58pm
The Subaru WRX tS and Toyota GR Corolla are perhaps the two scrappiest and sportiest turbocharged AWD cars on the road — about as close as you can get to a road-ready rally car. But which of these boosted beasts reigns supreme? Read More →
