Archive for Category: "Subaru"

Subaru recalls 5,379 Outback and Legacy due to steering loss issue

Subaru recalls 5,379 Outback and Legacy due to steering loss issue

Subaru is recalling about 5,379 Outback and Legacy vehicles because “the inner and outer shafts of the steering column assembly may become disengaged from one another.” The affected 2013 model vehicles were manufactured from Feb. 15, 2012, through June 15, 2012. If the shafts become disengaged, the driver would lose the ability to steer the [...]

Subaru Introduces Hybrid Model at New York Show

Subaru Introduces Hybrid Model at New York Show

Subaru has unveiled the 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid model at the 2013 New York International Auto Show. The XV Crosstrek Hybrid model is based on the popular XV Crosstrek crossover. The XV Crosstrek Hybrid combines a 2.0-litre Subaru BOXER engine with a 13.4-horsepower electric motor integrated into the Lineartronic Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). It [...]

Subaru Plans To Nearly Double US Production

Subaru Plans To Nearly Double US Production

The car market has been a miserable place to be over the last 4 or 5 years. The recession has caused record low sales volumes across nearly every brand in every market. Unless you’re Subaru that is. Despite the unheard of downturn in auto sales, the quirky company owned by Fuji Heavy Industries has seen record growth. Word now [...]

Subaru Drops Details On 2014 Forester

Subaru Drops Details On 2014 Forester

The Subaru Forester has long been a strong model for Subaru, and the new 2014 Subaru Forester looks to bring a new level of refinement and civility to the quirky off-roading runabout. The new Forester, like those that came before is powered by a choice of engines, one turbocharged and one naturally aspirated. The naturally aspirated engine [...]

Subaru Shipping More BRZs To Meet Demand

Subaru Shipping More BRZs To Meet Demand

When the Toyobaru coupes, the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ were developed, sales targets were not very high. As it stands, Subaru was only allotted 500 units per month for the entire country, and Subaru that was more than enough. It turns out that the kids in Japan were very wrong, and our appetite for affordable RWD sport coupes [...]

Subaru’s Final Rally America Saga

Subaru’s Final Rally America Saga

After the second-to-last stage of the 2012 Rally America Championship, Subaru had come to the conclusion that they had mathematically won the entire event.  Even with that in mind, David Higgins and Craig Drew are not the type of people to take things “easy” and thus, they entered the final round of the championship with full [...]

A Price Tag Gets Placed on The Subaru XV Crosstrek

A Price Tag Gets Placed on The Subaru XV Crosstrek

The Impreza for people who like jumping over stuff is getting rather close to its red carpet (i.e. the street) debut.  When it hits dealerships later this fall, the 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek will come with two transmissions and thus, two base prices.  For people who prefer to do their own shifting via a clutch and a gear [...]

Subaru “Shares The Love” for 2012

Subaru “Shares The Love” for 2012

For the fifth year in a row, Subaru will share its love to a variety of honorable charities from around the nation.  For the 2012 running of the event, the automaker’s facebook fans will play a major role in the decision-making.  With three organizations already picked, the public will be given the chance to vote [...]

Subaru Loads Up For a Rally Filled Weekend

Subaru Loads Up For a Rally Filled Weekend

New England will soon enough be awash with the kind of noise and chaos only possible from a Subaru rally car.  In the automaker’s first double-header of the 2012 season, both the Subaru Rally Team and its newly established PUMA Rallycross Team will battle it out this weekend in their respective motorsports.  While David Higgins, Craig Drew and their hardened STI drop [...]

Subaru To Build Their Own Guide to Everything

Subaru To Build Their Own Guide to Everything

As one of if not the only manufacture to build cars for the apocalypse, Subaru seems to have a special hold on folks who like to explore and get lost.  Rugged and reliable, vehicles such as the Outback and upcoming XV Crosstrek are built to be used and their next assignment involves building a guide [...]

 
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