Archive for the 'Subaru WRX' Category
VIDEO: Ken Block Gymkhana practice, or one hoon to rule them all
November 19th, 2008There are a remarkable number of crap car videos floating around the intertubes, so it takes a special breed of driving deity to make something that catches our attention. Card-carrying member of the automotive master race, Ken Block, did just that by setting up an utterly insane Gymkhana course around El Toro and then proceeds to flog the [...]
VIDEO: How NOT to unload your car from a trailer
November 9th, 2008Funnily enough, these guys aren’t the only ones to ever use a box truck to ruinous effect on an automobile. These Subaru movers went all the way, using what looks like folding cafeteria tables as a makeshift ramp. Everyone involved received a compound physics lesson when 3,000 pounds of automobile met an unsecured and poorly [...]
Subaru propose an ECU update for MY08 STI
October 27th, 2008In an unusual move, Subaru are proposing an update of the ECU ROM update for the MY08 STi. Subaru Australia generally don’t make changes to the ECU ROM, indeed the only other times this has been done recently for turbo-charged Subaru’s was for the Liberty B4s back in 2002 and the MY00 [...]
Meet & Greet: 26th October, 12:30pm - Supercheap Nth Mackay
October 14th, 2008Monthly 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 26th of October, if your keen to meet us or [...]
Subaru debuts boxer diesel Forester and Impreza
September 14th, 2008Subaru debuted its new 2.0L diesel boxer engine earlier this year in the Legacy and Outback, and soon it will also be offered in the Forester and Impreza, though only in Europe. These two latest models to feature the unique horizontally opposed oil-burning engines will debut at the Paris Motor Show next month. The Forester [...]
20-mile-long convoy of Subarus to celebrate life of Colin McRae
August 27th, 2008This picture was taken a just a day after the rally legend was killed in a tragic helicopter crash near his home in Lanarkshire. Without prompting, rally fans from across the UK drove to Scotland to hold a memorial in the McRaes’ hometown, which quickly filled up with Subarus, most of them WR blue.
One year [...]
VIDEO: Time lapse build of Subaru rally car over 800 hours
August 17th, 2008It’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 [...]
2009 Subaru Impreza WRX: 265 hp, retuned suspension, STI tweaks
August 16th, 2008It’s official folks. Those of you that picked up a 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX have been had. The road-going rally rocket gets an update for 2009 and with it comes a retuned 2.5-liter boxer four-pot producing 265 hp and 244 lb.-ft. of torque - a 41 hp and 18 lb.-ft. increase over the outgoing model. [...]
2009 Subaru Impreza WRX gets upgraded to 265 hp
July 28th, 2008A 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 [...]
Spy Pic - Subaru Impreza Coupe sets sights on BMW
June 5th, 2008This Impreza coupé will go into production in 2010. Pics were shot outside a test center in the UK (amidst white-out conditions), the camo-clad mule is sporting some body panels pilfered from the current Legacy, but with a Toyota emblem in front, a pair of Recaro buckets inside and a shrunken trunk, there’s little doubt [...]
Search
Donations
Categories
