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Hire Him: Next-gen Subaru WRX STI is privately rendered awesomeness

May 28th, 2009

Lars Martensson’s Subaru Impreza WRX STI concept – click above for a high-res gallery

It’s fair to say that Subaru has enjoyed a run of strong product in recent years, as well as an exponential credibility increase in enthusiast’s eyes, essentially ever since the automaker began shipping over the Impreza WRX back in 2001. Those considerable [...]

VIDEO: Time lapse build of Subaru rally car over 800 hours

August 17th, 2008

It’s no secret that running a motorsports team is a lot of work, but probably most of us don’t know how much time and effort it really takes. Just building the race cars can take hundreds of man hours, as evidenced by this stop-motion video created by the U.S. Subaru rally team. Starting with a [...]

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 [...]

Scientists create mutant bugs that produce crude oil

June 17th, 2008

Is the price of fuel starting to get to you? Well experts from the company LS9, Inc. claim that they’ve discovered a cure for our fuel-dependency woes that only requires an army of genetically modified insects (read: industrial microbes)… that eat wheat straw and excrete crude oil (read: convert renewable feedstocks to a portfolio of “drop in compatible” [...]

Transformers 2 Speculation

June 16th, 2008

A group of rabid Transformers fans decided to get together in a field last year and form the Autobot logo with 100 cars. Somehow they found someone with a helicopter and digital camera to record the moment and its been doing the rounds ever since.
Now there’s nothing quite like movie hype and movie rumors about [...]

Travis Pastrana getting a new co-driver

June 7th, 2008

The first person to perform a double back flip on a bike has to have some loose screws. Fortunately, that quality has benefited Travis Pastrana’s medal collection, and his no-holds barred attitude has translated well from motorcycles into rally racing. Pastrana and his co-driver Christian Edstrom have won the Rally America National Championship for the [...]

Toyota/Subaru RWD sports car confirmed for 2011 with boxer engine

June 6th, 2008

At a press conference in Japan on May 17th, Toyota CEO Katsuaki Watanabe finally confirmed that his company is jointly developing a pair of rear-wheel-drive sports cars with Subaru. Each brand will get its own version of the car, which will be powered by one of Subaru’s boxer engines, though the engine’s displacement, power output [...]

Subaru ad reminds us why the STI rocks

June 5th, 2008

The Subaru WRX STI has the speed and agility to be a track star, but on dirt, few machines on earth can keep up with the sprightly little screamer. The impressive little Scooby can scoot just like the last-gen model, but now it does it with a refinement the old model lacked. For fans and [...]

‘Risky’ new car strategy pays off for Subaru

June 4th, 2008

Subaru World Rally Team principal David Richards says the development of the Subaru Impreza WRC2008 has moved to another stage after its impressive debut on the Acropolis Rally.
Richards said the team’s second place was proof that the decision to introduce the new car before it was completely ready was the right one.
“Many thought our decision [...]

Ultimate Performance Car Test: 2009 Nissan GT-R vs. the World

June 3rd, 2008


Finding the Best Car for Any Road:
Edmunds have again got their hands on an new US Spec Nissan GT-R to put to the test. This time against some of its rivals on the track and on the street as they close off some of California’s best mountain roads to even out [...]

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