Subaru News
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Subaru Rally Team USA took the 2013 Rally America Championship at the Lake Superior Performance Rally in Michigan.
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Levorg Tourer headlines trio of Subaru concepts planned for Tokyo show
Subaru is bringing three new concepts to the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show next month, and while it’s common for automakers to present concepts with no intentions to ever launch production versions, Subaru has already confirmed that at least one of the trio is production-bound. The most intriguing so...
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Subaru And David Higgins Take Another Rally America Championship
David Higgins clinched his third consecutive Rally America Championship at the 2013 Lake Superior Performance Rally.
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Subaru Upgrades EyeSight Safety System In Preparation For Autonomous Driving
Subaru has announced an upgraded version of its EyeSight vehicle monitoring system that enhances safety performance and further reduces the burden on the driver. The changes are an upgrade to existing EyeSight functions of avoiding collisions, reducing collision damage and reducing driver's...
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2015 Subaru WRX And WRX STI Set For 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show
We’ve been spying prototypes for Subaru’s next-generation WRX for months but soon the heavy camouflage will be coming off and the car ready for its debut on the world stage. That debut will reportedly take place at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show in November, where Subaru is confirmed to...
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2014 Subaru BRZ Price Increases $100 To $26,390
Like its doppelganger, the Scion FR-S, the Subaru BRZ gets a small price increase for the 2014 model year, rising $100 to $26,390 (including delivery). A handful of equipment changes come with the slight price rise. Two trims are available: the manual-transmission-only Premium, or the...
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Following the reveal of the Subaru’s BRZ tS concept car a fortnight ago, the Japanese automaker has now launched the production version, though sadly the car is only offered in the automaker’s home market. But what exactly is the BRZ tS? It’s simply a version of the Subaru sports car fitted with performance upgrades from the automaker’s official tuner STI. The tS designation is short for “tuned by STI” and is similar to what M Performance is to BMW or S line is to Audi. The upgrades on the BRZ tS are aimed at further enhancing the car’s handling and...
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2015 Subaru WRX Spy Shots
Subaru gave us a preview of its next-generation WRX at the 2013 New York Auto Show, where it unveiled the striking WRX concept and enticed us with tales that the final car would no longer resemble the humble Impreza with which it will continue to share a platform. We’ve since spied the...
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2014 Subaru WRX And WRX STI Pricing Info
It looks like we’ll have to wait at least one more year for a new generation of the WRX as Subaru has confirmed that the current model will continue into the 2014 model year. The good news is that the car, plus its high-performance STI variant, still offer great value and plenty of bang for...
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Subaru BRZ tS Concept Isn’t The BRZ STI We Were All Hoping For
It may be wearing STI badges, but the car featured here isn’t the fabled BRZ STI we were all hoping for when teaser images of an STI-badged BRZ appeared on Subaru’s website over the weekend. This car is actually a concept that previews some mild performance upgrades developed by STI for...
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Subaru, Higgins To Compete At X Games Gymkhana Grid: Video
Defending back-to-back Rally America champion David Higgins and the Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team are joining forces for the festivities at X Games Los Angeles. The team will compete in the Gymkhana Grid event against the likes of Ken Block, Tanner Foust, as well as his own Subaru PUMA teammates...
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2015 Subaru Legacy Spy Shots
Subaru’s popular Legacy mid-size sedan is about to be replaced by an all-new model, seen here testing in prototype form for the first time. This particular prototype was spotted testing in Michigan and features many of the fixtures that will appear on the final production model. The new...
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We drove the 2013 Subaru BRZ on the Isle of Man TT course again, and remembered why it pushes out buttons so well.
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Forbidden Fruit: 2013 Subaru WRX STI tS Type RA
Subaru has revealed what’s likely to be the last version of its third-generation WRX before the arrival of the all-new, fourth-generation model later this year. The new special edition is the 2013 Subaru WRX STI tS Type RA and it has been developed exclusively for Subaru’s home market...
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Saying Goodbye To The Subaru WRX STI At The Isle Of Man
The current Subaru WRX STI is a beast: powerful, capable, but something less than pretty. Despite its ungainly looks, it has made fans out of us and out of a large chunk of the populace. But it's due for replacement soon. So we took the opportunity to spend the better part of a week with the car in...
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2013 Isle Of Man TT With Subaru: Motorsports In The Blood
At nearly 200 mph, the jumps, curves, and hard stone walls of the Snaefell Mountain Course are among the most challenging in all of competitive motorsports. They're also among the most dangerous, claiming the lives of 240 competitors since the race's founding in 1907, including one more this year...
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Subaru Joins Global RallyCross Championship At Barcelona
Subaru is going racing, and the automaker has a brand new team to show off. Partnering up with PUMA, Subaru is sending a handful of rally-prepped WRX STI race machines to the X Games in Barcelona. The event at hand is Global RallyCross Championship, and the team drivers are Bucky Lasek, Dave Mirra...
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2015 Subaru WRX Spy Video
A prototype for Subaru’s next-generation WRX is seen here undergoing high-speed testing at Germany’s Nürburgring circuit. The new car finally drops the Impreza name in order to signify its unique engineering and technology, but sadly the exterior resembles that of the latest...
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Imagine you're at a stoplight, and a Subaru WRX STI rolls up next to you, with the driver revving the engine. Seems normal right? What if when they revved the engine a duck call started coming from the car's engine bay? We know, try to contain your laughter. MUST WATCH: Brake Failure At 154 MPH Is Terrifying: Onboard Video This Subaru WRX STI has what we are calling the duck call blow-off valve modification. While it could possibly star in The Quack And The Furious someday, we aren't sure a starring role in a movie is necessary. But there's no question this modification is beyond hilarious...
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Subaru Design Boss Talks WRX Concept: Video
Subaru has been telling us for a while that the next-generation WRX will not be just a hopped up Impreza, and it used the 2013 New York Auto Show to give us our first glimpse of this with the WRX Concept. While we've spied the next-generation Subaru WRX undergoing testing, the WRX Concept gives us...
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Subaru WRX Concept Video Preview: New York Auto Show
The next-gen Subaru WRX will be leaving its past close twinning to the Impreza model in the dust for its next generation, but it will still share some of its underpinnings with the more pedestrian Subie. Best of all, while this WRX Concept isn't quite the real deal, it does reflect the core teem of...
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2013 Subaru WRX Concept: New York Auto Show Live Shots
We’ll warn you in advance that the 2013 Subaru WRX Concept displayed at this week’s New York Auto Show may or may not be what the final product looks like. Subaru is hedging its bets, saying only that the show-stopping concept represents its “new design language” for the...
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Next-Gen Subaru WRX Previewed By New Concept
Subaru has gone to some length to separate the WRX from its former pedestrian platform-mate, the Subaru Impreza. In 2012, Subaru dropped the Impreza name from the WRX and introduced an all-new Impreza; since then, only spy photos have hinted at what the next WRX would look like. Thanks to...
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Subaru Confirms New Performance Concept For 2013 New York Auto Show
Subaru will have two major debuts at next week’s 2013 New York Auto Show. One of these has been confirmed as the 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid (pictured below), the automaker’s first hybrid vehicle and the first to be powered by Subaru’s proprietary hybrid drive technology...
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