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Posted Monday, January 2, 2023 at 10:39pm
Pro rally driver and Hoonigan co-founder Ken Block was killed in a snowmobile accident on Monday, Hoonigan and local authorities confirmed. Block, a prolific figure in the car community, was 55 years old. A co-founder of DC shoes, he moved into the world of rally and quickly made a name for himself, developing the Hoonigan brand and creating the much-loved Gymkhana video series. Read on… Read More →
Posted Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 10:14pm
The works R&D Sport Subaru BRZ, built to GTA-GT300 rules, took four pole positions and started from the front row six times out of eight during Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi’s title-winning 2021 season. Despite BoP adjustments being made in a bid to slow down the GTA-GT300 cars relative to their FIA GT3 rivals last year, Iguchi and Yamauchi enjoyed similar success in qualifying. The pair scored pole positions at Okayama, Fuji Round 2, Sugo… Read More →
Posted Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 10:12pm
Lists of cars that were not made for U.S-market regulations but are newly available to import under the Imported Vehicle Safety Compliance Act have become a bit commonplace on the internet these days. But we figured surely there must be an overlooked morsel, a gem waiting to be discovered. Perhaps if we found and conquered this metaphorical mound, we’d have an ideal place to fly the C/D flag, where it would proudly wave in the… Read More →
Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 10:09pm
Recently, Tyre Reviews got its hands on a set of Pirelli Sottozero designed for racing, as well as a Subaru rally car. That sets the stage for an incredibly entertaining comparison test between those WRC tires and some of the best street-legal studded winter tires on the market: Pirelli Ice Zero 2s. But the question wasn’t whether or not the Sottozeros would perform better than the road tires. It’s how much better they’d be. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 10:01pm
We dragged the new Subaru WRX out to our Performance Car of the Year test, pitting it against Lamborghinis and Porsches and Corvettes. That’s a tall task for any junior family car, and we applaud its heroic effort. But the arrival of any new WRX means we must engage in another time-honored tradition; We need some sort of hater’s guide. Read More →
Posted Friday, December 23, 2022 at 9:58pm
Neither I nor any of my MotorTrend cohorts involved in planning our long-term test-fleet coverage discussed this ahead of time, but one way or another, stewardship of the 2022 Subaru WRX Limited that just landed in our garage fell my way. “One way or another,” because I don’t recall how we decided I should oversee its yearlong MT stay, but it feels supremely natural if not outright preordained. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 9:57pm
Inflation is a fact of life, and cars are central to the phenomenon. Besides the obvious boost in prices, we see it in performance and capability too. Remember when 228 horsepower was a big deal, the stuff of V-8 Mustangs and Porsche 911s? Now 600 horsepower almost seems normal, and with it comes a spiral of more: more weight, more money, more digital nannies to keep it all on the road. That’s why the Subaru… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 9:55pm
Ever since the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo was discontinued, the Subaru WRX has enjoyed being the sole street-legal rally car available in the United States. Has the once cutting-edge Subaru grown complacent due to a lack of competition? It’s time to find out because the iconic all-wheel-drive turbocharged WRX finally has a challenger: the 2023 Toyota GR Corolla. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 20, 2022 at 9:51pm
Christopher Columbus and Florent Peronnet are very much on the same page when it comes to America. More than five centuries down the road since the Italian explorer caught site of the east coast, 2C Compétition’s team manager can sympathise with Columbus’ thinking. Peronnet spent this year working with Hoonigan Racing, preparing the Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC that Ken Block used to win or finish second on every one of the six ARA rounds he… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 9:48pm
The year 2008 marked the internet’s first peek inside the wild interworkings of the brain of rally-star and DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block. As deeply as his viral Gymkhana videos left their primordial tire marks on abandoned runways, so too grew the insanity of the stunts. Doing donuts around a Segway rider with a 2006 Subaru WRX STI would eventually progress into hanging 1400 hp worth of Hoonicorn Mustang beyond the last few parts of… Read More →
