My Next Car - Subaru B11S
My dad called on the cell phone all excited because he just finished reading the latest Drive magazine. Drive is the Subaru owners monthly magazine, usually pretty boring but this month they featured a new concept car called the B11S. This is one bad car with a turbo charged H6 engine with 400hp and really cool design. I know this is just a concept car but I want one now!
Update:
Here is the link from David’s comment about the look-alike car by Jaguar. Looks the same to me, and Subaru thought no one would notice!
July 11th, 2003 at 10:25 am
I searched for Subaru 2.5XT on Google and your site came up. I just bought one of these puppies and I’m telling you, it is AWESOME. Car & Driver just said that they got a 5.3 to 60. I’ll never see that b/c you wouold have to drive it too hard, but it’s a nice stat to know. I was just commenting to my buddy who’s also a car guy that Subaru is actually now a PREMIUM car brand. More expensive, really, that Honda, Toyota, or Mazda (for sure). This is my sedond. I had a 2001 Outback Limited Wagon 5 speed as well, and that car didn’t even hickup in 45K miles. Anyway, thought you might be interested.
Milt
July 11th, 2003 at 12:43 pm
Thanks for the comment. I own two Subarus neither one has given me any problems. The oldest is a 1993 Subaru Legacy L with 200k miles and no major problems, although the automatic transmission is starting to act up. The other is a 2002 H6-3.0 Outback Sedan with 30k miles and still no problems.
July 11th, 2003 at 7:35 pm
The really disturbing thing is the similarity to another italian designed prototype though I can’t recall the make/model. It was shown in autoweek a few months ago but I’m sure that’s in the trash by now.
July 11th, 2003 at 7:44 pm
Here ya go:
http://www.autoweek.com/search/search_display.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=carnews&content_code=01088807&Search_Type=STD&Search_ID=1380246&record=1
It’s a long URL so the wrap’ll probably be ugly.
July 12th, 2003 at 10:39 am
I added the link to the post itself for easier access. So who stole whose?
July 14th, 2003 at 4:27 am
Not sure, but I believe the jag was out first. I guess it’s just considered bad taste when the same designer pays homage to his own work for another client’s fees.
August 21st, 2003 at 12:42 pm
Why don’t you just fix one of the cars that you have up on blocks in your front yard. Your mother/wife can watch from the couch on the front porch.
September 9th, 2003 at 12:12 am
I own a Lagacy GT limited. It has 30K miles now without any problem. For me, this car is very very good. I saw the B11S and immediately want to have one. I heard or read somewhere that Subaru may put it into production but I would like to have a confirmation. Anybody knows anything about this?
September 19th, 2003 at 8:11 am
The B11S if it makes it to a production release will be seen in the 2005 or 2006 models. This is according the press release that Subaru made at the Geneva Car Show.
May 10th, 2004 at 1:26 pm
i think this car is amazing i love my subaru’s and i love the shape of the subaru b11s its goner sell nice an quick i know i wish i could have 1
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July 22nd, 2004 at 6:22 pm
It’s disapointing that it doesn’t resemble any part of a Subaru…
It’s nice and all, but still disappointing that it has no roots nor development….