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Posted Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 9:07pm
Subaru will begin offering hybridized powertrains from corporate partner Toyota by mid-decade and will build battery-electric vehicles itself in a new factory in Japan in the later half of the decade. But it will rely on its current lineup of combustion-powered vehicles and one Toyota-built EV in the U.S. until then. The launch of the 2023 Subaru Solterra electric compact crossover was put on ice this year by a stop-sale and recall issued by Toyota,… Read More →
Posted Friday, September 2, 2022 at 9:04pm
Travis Pastrana is known for being one of the nicest people in motorsport. Always going out of his way to give people a show, sticking around to meet fans as long as possible, and showing some of the greatest sportsmanship racing has ever seen, it’s almost impossible to find someone who has beef with Pastrana. Pastrana’s best side shone brightly at the Ojibwe Forests Rally in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota after his rally-ending off on SS10.… Read More →
Posted Friday, September 2, 2022 at 9:02pm
The next generation of the Subaru Crosstrek could be on the way. At least that’s our takeaway after watching a video Subaru posted online today that teases a new SUV model, which the company plans to reveal September 15. The 15-second clip was posted on YouTube by Subaru of Japan, and it can also be seen on the Japanese website. Almost all of the shots are shrouded in darkness, with only a few specific details… Read More →
Posted Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 10:07pm
Travis Pastrana is aware he has no realistic shot at defending his American Rally Association presented by DirtFish National championship title. Pastrana and co-driver Rhiannon Gelsomino were leading the recent Ojibwe Forests Rally going into the final day by five seconds over their main competition, Ken Block. On a hard push to hold off Block who had closed to one second behind, Pastrana pushed too hard through a difficult section and hit a tree, causing… Read More →
Posted Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 10:06pm
Don’t you just love it when a carmaker releases a teaser advert for a soon-to-be-unveiled model and they try to hide what’s coming? Subaru did that today when it announced online that it would be launching a “new SUV” on September 15, and proceeded to show a short video with flash images of what looked like an SUV. Check out the images below. Read More →
Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2022 at 9:48pm
From a distance, I have been keeping my eye on all things DirtFish for quite some time now. On a few occasions, I’ve had the opportunity to film some social media content with the team in the UK and have kept an extra close eye on posts about my cousin Max McRae’s progress. My DirtFish experience, however, was elevated when I was invited out to Washington to take part in the latest All-Women program. Prior… Read More →
Posted Monday, August 29, 2022 at 10:18pm
The 2022 Subaru WRX is a fun compact sports car, but Consumer Reports indicates it’s not perfect. It has issues with noise and the stiffness of its ride, and problems like this combine to take away from the experience of the AWD sports car. Despite these issues, there were four things that Consumer Reports loved about the 2022 Subaru WRX. Read More →
Posted Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 10:14pm
The two turns of the Height o’ Land stage on the Ojibwe Forests Rally are probably the most iconic stretch of stage road in the US. You’d think it’s out of a video game how perfectly the road weaves through Shuckhart Lake in Minnesota, but it’s real, and it’s beautiful. In preparation for Ojibwe this writer was showing the spot off to a few people, and was met with some concern over the safety of… Read More →
Posted Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:13pm
Few compact cars have the same World Rally Championship pedigree as the Subaru WRX. The first- to fourth-generation models were Impreza-based rallying machines with turbo Boxer engines, all-wheel-drive, and stiff suspension. Subaru made the WRX a standalone brand in 2015, and the second-gen 2022 WRX is the latest iteration of the brand’s iconic World Rally eXperimental vehicle. Sure, the new WRX is not easy on the eyes, but its rugged countenance makes it great for executing… Read More →
Posted Friday, August 26, 2022 at 10:11pm
Therefore, accidents in rallying tend to be more spectacular than those on the track, mostly because you see relatively familiar scenery and a production-based race car speeding through it. Last weekend, at the Ojibwe Forests Rally in Minnesota, a rally crew ended up in a lake. The action was caught on camera, and it goes to show just the right amount of calm to deal with situations like these. The crew in question would have… Read More →
