Posted Monday, February 17, 2025 at 9:56pm
At the 2025 Rally Sweden, French driver Adrien Fourmaux from the Hyundai Shell Mobis World Rally Team was fined €10,000 for using inappropriate language during a live post-stage interview. The fine also included an additional €20,000, but this is suspended and will only be paid if he breaches the rule again in the next 12 months. Read More →
Posted Sunday, February 16, 2025 at 9:53pm
After they wrapped 2024 with a tally of almost 668k units, up 5.6% compared to the previous year, Subaru of America announced January 2025 as their 30th consecutive month of yearly month-over-month sales increases with a 4.1% surge in deliveries. Naturally, they are trending positively due to various novelties. The year is looking strong – in January, they also announced the fresh 2026 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid with the next-gen 194-horsepower Subaru hybrid powertrain, and in… Read More →
Posted Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 9:52pm
The Subaru Forester is renowned for being practical, capable and a bit more rugged than its mid-sized SUV rivals, but the competition led by the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is getting ever more sophisticated. That’s why Subaru has upgraded its sixth-generation Forester with a more modern look and a host of mechanical upgrades, and we’ve driven a 2.0-litre UK-spec version ahead of the vital new model ahead of its Australian launch later this year. Read More →
Posted Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 9:51pm
If you’re even vaguely familiar with rallying then the name Nicky Grist should mean something to you: his voice was the soft but authoritative Welsh-accented one that soundtracked some truly wild onboard videos as he read pace notes to Colin McRae in the latter part of the late Scotsman’s career. Undoubtedly one of the most recognisable names among those who willingly strap themselves into the passenger seats of rally cars hurtling through forests at preposterous… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 9:49pm
Last month, Subaru of Japan offered skiers a more fun way to get to the top of the hill than the usual chair lift. Over four days at the Naeba resort, situated a couple of hours by car or transit northeast of Tokyo, snowsports enthusiasts could hop in a Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid and have a pro driver slew it through the snow on the way up. Subaru calls this event the Gelande Taxi, and it’s… Read More →
Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 10:25pm
The 2025 World Rally Championship campaign stops off in Scandinavia for the snowy stages of Rally Sweden this week, where every fraction of a second can be crucial. Twenty years ago, that was never more apparent than in one of the event’s all-time great tussles, where two men were separated by a split-second measurement on ice. Cast your mind back to 2005. Chelsea were romping away to a then-record points haul for the Premier League… Read More →
Posted Monday, February 10, 2025 at 10:47pm
Walking across the car park towards his Subaru first thing on Saturday morning, Brandon Semenuk caught some ice. Ordinary people might well have headed south and bounced. The Canadian gathered it up and barely noticed. That was the triple American champion’s only moment in a flawless season-opening Sno*Drift Rally. He and co-driver Keaton Williams bossed round one of the ARA National Championship presented by Kubota from the start of the first stage to the end… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:42pm
As the Friday night darkness descends over the frozen fields of Michigan, Brandon Semenuk will fire up his Subaru WRX to begin a third consecutive defense of his ARA National Championship presented by Kubota crown. And the good news this year? The snow’s back in the Sno*Drift. Last month Sébastien Ogier talked about the final day of the Monte Carlo Rally sporting the right livery, showing its true colors. That’s when the snow came. It’s… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:41pm
If you’re at all like me, you’ll relate to this feeling: lost, overwhelmed and at times perplexed. What am I doing here? Do they really want to speak to me? If I just went home, would anybody notice? Imposter syndrome isn’t the one. But it’s part of what makes a lot of us who we are. For years, this was my relationship with rallying. I was an imposter. Somehow, I’ve managed to evolve that to… Read More →
Posted Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:39pm
Squint at the side profile of the newest Subaru Forester and you can trace the compact SUV’s evolutionary path back to its roots as a boxy, go-anywhere crossover. The sixth generation introduced last year gives the Forester modern curb appeal, but inherited traits lay underneath. Every Forester marries a flat-four engine with standard all-wheel drive and enough extra ground clearance to comfortably handle moderate off-road treks. It’s not all old news, though, as the Forester’s… Read More →
