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Posted Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 10:12pm
Subaru took the wraps off its first fully electric vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday. The 2023 Solterra SUV will hit US dealerships in the middle of 2022 with dual electric motors and signature Subie traits. The environmentally-friendly SUV feels like the natural progression for a brand that’s all about getting into nature. Subaru’s rugged vehicles are already popular among outdoorsy people who like the ability to occasionally tackle a dirt road… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:23pm
The Subaru Solterra is the brand’s first fully electric vehicle and a joint venture between Toyota, who sells this same EV has the BZ4X. (Super glad Subaru went with an actual word, even if it’s made up.) The Solterra made its official debut in Japan last week, but Subaru pulled the wraps off the North American version on Wednesday, confirming many of the EV’s US specs. Mechanically speaking, not much is different between the Solterra… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:21pm
Subaru is finally taking its first step into the world of electric cars with the launch of the Solterra. The amped crossover is positioned as the EV that will do everything a petrol Subaru does, including ferry its nature-loving occupants to the great outdoors. As such, it’s built with light off-roading in mind, something not many other EVs have addressed. Subaru isn’t shy about the fact that the Solterra was developed jointly with Toyota, their… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 11:20pm
Every hero has a weakness, and the original Subaru BRZ and Scion FR-S (later Toyota 86) had two: power delivery and grip. The rear-wheel-drive chassis was sublime, but the tires offered all the traction of bowling shoes, and the 2.0-liter flat-four had a torque curve with a death valley at about 3000 rpm. But, as the new Toyobaru twins’ presence on this list should tell you, they fixed it. In a big way. We figured… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 11:00pm
Subaru has thrown down a Tesla test-drive challenge with its new Solterra electric crossover, unveiled last week as the brand’s first serious EV. Subaru Corp. is late in joining the EV arena, in contrast with Tesla’s aggressive push to dominate the market. But the way the low-volume Japanese brand sees it, Subaru has a big leg up when it comes to delivering popular crossovers, with its decades of success in the all-wheel-drive field. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 10:59pm
Travis Pastrana capped off a dominant weekend and captured his first win of the series from pole position in Sunday afternoon’s Nitro Rallycross Arizona final. The series creator, action sports phenom, and driver of the No. 199 Subaru Motorsports Impreza was hungry for his first win after coming up short at the first two rounds of the season. “It’s about time, really. If you design the track and create the rules you should be able… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 15, 2021 at 9:56pm
Dirt was flying at Yellowstone Drag Strip in Acton, as drivers from Yellowstone Region Sports Car Club of America tore up a rally cross course on Sunday. “I think it’s starting to grow in popularity. As the word gets out there, people do realize that you don’t have to have a special car for it. Show up in what you drive every day and race it,” said club member Lane Baumann, 27, of Laurel, who… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 15, 2021 at 9:54pm
The Crosstrek Hybrid was introduced for the 2019 model year, and was a mammoth improvement over the previous Crosstrek Hybrid. But the current model hasn’t changed much since then. Its hybrid system makes a Subaru 2.0-liter flat-4 engine part of a Toyota-derived hybrid system—although the Crosstrek Hybrid has a mechanical all-wheel-drive system (a strategy used in some luxury-brand PHEVs) instead of the over-the-road system, with a rear motor, that other AWD hybrids such as Toyota’s… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 15, 2021 at 9:46pm
As if making history in one sport wasn’t enough, Brandon Semenuk is rapidly building a reputation in his secondary career, rally car racing. Just weeks after landing an unprecedented fourth victory at Red Bull Rampage, Brandon Semenuk was back on top of another podium. The Canadian traded in his bike for a different set of wheels. Semenuk and John Hall closed out the Oregon Trail Rally, the final race of the American Rally Association national… Read More →
Posted Monday, November 15, 2021 at 9:39pm
For a car brand so closely associated with the great outdoors, Subaru Corp. has been weirdly slow to cash in on environmental friendliness. In the U.S., its biggest market by far, the Japanese automaker offers just one partly electrified model, the plug-in hybrid Crosstrek compact SUV. Even that is listed on the company’s website as having “limited availability.” So Thursday’s unveiling in Tokyo of the Subaru Solterra, its first fully electric SUV, feels like an… Read More →
