Archive for July, 2008

2009 Subaru Impreza WRX gets upgraded to 265 hp

July 28th, 2008

A forum member at NASIOC has posted a corporate communiqué supposedly sent to North American Subaru dealers announcing the forthcoming arrival of the 2009 Impreza WRX. Two models are outlined in the release, the first, a new model dubbed the Impreza GT, will only be available with an automatic transmission and the 224 hp engine [...]

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Mackay WRX Meet N Greet - 27/07/08 12:30pm

July 9th, 2008

Monthly Meet N Greets are held so we can all meet up, have a chat, and even go for a cruise. The meeting place is at Supercheap North Mackay car park at 12:30pm on the last Sunday of the month.
The next meet is on the 27th of July, if your keen to meet us or [...]

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Subaru changes targets for 2008

July 9th, 2008

Subaru drivers Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson will start the second half of this year’s World Rally Championship with the freedom to go flat out and win stages in an attempt to put the new Impreza WRC2008 on the podium through sheer pace before the end of the season.

Subaru World Rally Team managing director Richard [...]

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Prodrive sets up Essex police with 270hp Impreza interceptors

July 2nd, 2008

If you watched the first episode of Top Gear’s season 11, you likely smirked at the lackluster Vauxhalls that the British bobbies have to drive in pursuit of “the baddies”. But once in a while the constables in the UK gets something special in their motor-pools, like the Caparo T1, Lotus Exige, Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 [...]

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