Category Archives: subaru
Subaru Celebrates 50th with Fan Fan Festival
Fuji Heavy Industries is throwing a 50th birthday bash for its automotive arm Subaru next month at the Red Brick Building in Yokohama with the the Fan! Fan! Festival! Exclamation point! Cars on display will include its earliest classics (brought … Continue reading →
Rear Wheel Resurrection Update
As you probably know, FR is coming back in a big way. Nissan, Toyota and Subaru (having joined forces with the Big T), all have lightweight RWD coupes in the pipelines. First, let’s check in with the Toyobaru joint venture … Continue reading →
Where Old Subarus Go to Die
Legend has it that when an old elephant knows its time is near, it instinctively heads toward an elephant graveyard, a hidden pachyderm skeleton repository where it, and its predecessors, can go to die quietly away from the herd. The … Continue reading →
Mmmm… Subaru 360 Cookies
As usual, available in Japan only.
Subaru Concerned About Toyota RWD Coupe
Ever since we began following the possible revival of a lightweight Toyota RWD sports coupe, to which names as wide-ranging as the AE86, Celica and Supra have been attached, there’s been a loyal group of Toyota enthusiasts clamoring for the … Continue reading →
Toyota-Subaru RWD Confirmed
It’s true, it’s all true! Soylent Green is people, the apes were on Earth all along, and the Toyota-Subaru joint rear wheel drive coupe is real. Last week, Toyota upped its stake in Subaru parent company Fuji Heavy Industries from … Continue reading →
More Subaru Goodies
Hot on the tails of yesterday’s Subie surprise, Subaru Japan dealerships have just announced a “customer appreciation day” campaign taking place this weekend, April 12-13. Just stroll on in and enter a drawing for either a 360 mouse or a … Continue reading →
Subaru 360 Mouse
Our JDM friend and Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear Super Exceed 24-Valve V6 3000 with Crystal Lite Roof helmsman was in town for a few days and he brought us this rad present. It’s a surprisingly comfortable USB optical mouse in … Continue reading →
Happy 50th Birthday, Subaru
Greetings, Pleiads! Today we help Subaru celebrate 50 years in the automaking business. What’s that you say? How can Subaru be celebrating their 50th birthday when back in 2003, they already partied hearty and released a slew of 50th Anniversary … Continue reading →
Subaru of America 40th Anniversary
We apologize for the short notice, but we just discovered Subaru of America will be celebrating their 40th anniversary at the Philadelphia Auto Show. A small show, yes, but Philly is right next door to Subaru’s Cherry Hill, NJ headquarters. … Continue reading →
Return of the RWD Celica?
Speculation continues to abound at the reincarnation of a lightweight, rear wheel drive Toyota. For those of you who haven’t been following this particular rumor-fest, a quick recap: First, in August 2007, it was the Japanese magazines that began reporting … Continue reading →
Adios, Amigos: Isuzu Is Outta Here
Damn, we’re out of the country for one week and the US loses an entire marque. Isuzu announced on January 31 that in one year, they will completely abandon the American passenger vehicle market after a slow and painful death. … Continue reading →
JNC In Japan: Day 5
Today we headed out to the Chainan 21, the official museum of Hino. Check out this sign. The station name is Toyoda, and if you notice, the previous stop was Hino. Coincidence? Probably. The Hino museum is at neither of … Continue reading →
Jiotto Caspita: Yet Another Tasty Concept Car They Didn’t Make
In 1990, one of the highlights of the 28th Tokyo Motor Show was a swoopy, low-slung supercar called the Jiotto Caspita. Made by the Dome company, it was one of many hypercar concepts in the late 80s which never came … Continue reading →
JNC In Japan: Day 1
We took NWA, but the food wasn’t very good. If you have a choice, we recommend Public Enemy Air. Our man in Japan Satoshi picked us up in his slammed 1995 Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear Super Exceed. It’s got 0 … Continue reading →
Sambar: Subaru gets its funk on
Last week we did a short profile on the funky 60s Honda Vamos mid-engined convertible trucklet. But like all other JDM manufacturers of the same era, Subaru also had a range of funky little small-capacity commercial vehicles as well. … Continue reading →
Special Stage on Silver Screen
Our Aussie friends at grandJDM bring us news of a new movie about rallying coming out in Japan. SS, an abbreviation for Special Stage, is based on a manga of the same title, and while Sho Aikawa is the leading … Continue reading →
New Car Smell: Subaru Odor Cannon
You know the drill. You find your dream nostalgic but the ad says “Ran when parked” and it’s been sitting in a yard somewhere for the last 10 years. You bring your new baby home only to discover that its … Continue reading →
More 'Roku Returns
More news on the Toyota/Subaru project that is being called the Toyota Lightweight Sports Car. Although initial (no pun intended) reports suggested that this would be a successor to the AE86, as more news/rumors (neumors?) emerge, it appears as if … Continue reading →
Random Pic Onslaught, Part 1
Seriously, it’s not funny anymore. The west coast has so many old cars cruising around that at this point we think they’re just mocking us. Here’s a gallery of random roadcraft that just happened to cross our paths during a … Continue reading →
