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Is Different Bad?


The new 2014 Impreza made an appearance in the Washington Post’s Nuts and Bolts column and won over the writer with a lot of great features that you won't find on other vehicles. However, the writer does complain about one thing—the noise of the engine. It’s true that Subaru does have a unique sound that can take getting used to when you first start driving a Subaru. The difference in driving, however, is well worth the transition to a different engine voice. 

Because the Subaru uses a Boxer engine, the car sounds very different from what…

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Convertible BRZ?



The BRZ was a combined effort between Subaru and Toyota but Subaru is the one with the final say since they actually manufacture the vehicles in their facilities. Toyota has been showing a concept car of the BRZ model as a convertible and it’s started to draw quite some attention. However much we might want a convertible, Subaru won’t be making one using the existing BRZ design. Why?

Subaru brand chief Yasuyuki Yoshinaga told reporters at the Tokyo Motor Show "Our engineering department told me that losing the entire roof requires a complete redesign of the structure. It…

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2015 WRX or 2014 BRZ?




One car blogger has posed an intriguing question: if you had $30,000 to spend on any sports car you wanted, what would you buy? The author says that there are only two sports cars in that price range on the market right now that warrant attention, the 2014 BRZ and 2015 WRX.

But how do you decide between the two? In the end, the author decides he would buy a WRX because of the sheer practicality of the car when compared to the BRZ. The BRZ, he writes, is a more track-sport car but doesn’t meet all his…

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Subaru’s New 2015 WRX


Can you take any other car from a day at the rally track to a night out on the town with friends? Probably not—that flexibility is reserved for the new 2015 WRX. The new 2015 WRX was unveiled a few weeks ago at the LA Auto Show and we’re very pleased with the new Subaru's look and feel.

Under the hood, the 2015 WRX is everything a car lover could want. With a direct injected 2.0-liter Boxer four-cylinder engine, power has upgraded slightly to 268 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. The 2015 WRX is available…

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