Video: 2011 Subaru WRX STI Sedan

Tommi Mäkinen is mackin’ it hard in this video, released to today by Subaru’s parent company Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. The vid is part of an advanced R&D project carried out at the world-famous the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany, using a 2011 model year Subaru WRX STI four-door sedan test mule.

His time (7’55″00) is Subaru’s fastest lap time ever for a WRX STI and is four seconds faster than its previous best lap in 2004.

Of course, whether or not the four-time WRC champ’s legendary skills were the deciding factors in this exercise remains to be seen Continue reading Video: 2011 Subaru WRX STI Sedan

Block rocks the socks off his Subaru STi!

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At first, this doesn’t look like it’ll be anything special. But it quickly turns to insane with Ken Block rocking the socks off his 2006 Subaru STi! What amazing control, plus lots of smoke and tons of max drift! WOW!!! Kudos [...]

Tested: 2008 Subaru Tribeca

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2008 Subaru Tribeca

“…Since the dawn of automotive time, vehicles have been named after all sorts of people, places and wild animals. There’s the Enzo (named after Ferrari’s late founder), for example, Malibu (a star’s hollow where you might actually see an [...]