Archive for the 'car' Category

2005 Subaru Outback and Legacy - US Market

Monday, February 16th, 2004

Subaru just announced the 2005 Outback at the Chicago Auto Show. This is a direct port of the European Outback and now the lineup features a turbo-charged 2.5 liter 4 cylinder that cranks out 250hp. Plus a newly tuned 3.0 liter 6 cylinder engine that also pulls in at 250hp, up from 225hp […]

Life begins at 200k miles

Wednesday, September 17th, 2003

So my 1993 Subaru Legacy has finally reached the golden age of 200,000 miles. It rolled over the looming mark just a few minutes ago and contrary to my nightmares the car ran just fine afterwards. No dead engines or dropping transmissions it just kept on rolling. My wife and I decided […]

My Next Car - Subaru B11S

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

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 […]

Government Recommends Subaru’s Legacy

Friday, July 4th, 2003

In a controversial move the government of Gunma (a small prefecture in Japan) recommended that its citizens drive Subaru Legacy’s. This shouldn’t be shocking considering that many of those citizens work at Fuji Heavy Industries who manufactures Subaru’s cars. Did you know there is a town in Japan called Subaru?

Lance Armstrong drives a Subaru Forester 2.5-XT with 210 horsepower

Tuesday, March 4th, 2003

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