Category: Subaru

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TEST DRIVE SUBARUS AT HOME

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Want to test drive Subaru on your home ground rather than at a Subaru dealership? Then have a Subaru be brought to your home, work or anywhere else that best suits. Using it on roads that are very familiar to you lets you get a proper feel for a Subaru you’re considering buying. After a successful pilot in the Sydney metro region, Subaru Australia has expanded its mobile test drive program, ‘Test Drive at Yours’, nationally at participating retailers. At this stage about 50 per cent of Subaru dealers Australian… Read more

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FUTURE FOCUS FOR ‘OLD GROWTH’ FORESTER

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If the Subaru Forester were a human timber-getter, he would be well past retirement age. However, the recently released popular Subaru all-wheel drive wagon, in its fifth generation, is confidently plugging away into the future. Subaru Australia Managing Director, Colin Christie, says it is 21 years since first generation Forester was launched in Australia, establishing a whole new trend by becoming the original compact SUV. “It was Subaru’s best-seller last year, with more than 12,000 vehicles sold, taking us close to a quarter of a million Foresters sold since launch…. Read more

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NEW SUBARU FORESTER: BIGGER AND BETTER

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Subaru has been in the SUV market in Australia for more years – no, make that more decades – than its competitors care to reflect upon. All Subarus (with the exception of the BRZ sportscar) have been sold only in AWD format since 1994 and the safety and superior roadholding added by driving all four wheels attracted many buyers. The second largest model in the range, the Forester was first sold Downunder 21 years ago and is selling its wheels off in today’s heated AWD / SUV market. To the… Read more

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SUBARU FORESTER 2008 – 2017

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2016 Subaru Forester

By EWAN KENNEDY, Marque Motoring CAPTION: A. B. C. 2016 Subaru Forester BODY COPY Subaru is a quiet achiever in Australia, the Japanese company that has often been ahead of the pack in design. Its Forester is a classic example, decades before SUVs became king the hill in sales in Australia, Subaru was selling all-wheel-drive station wagons. Forester was launched here in 1997 as a relatively mild looking station wagon but later morphed into a medium SUV in styling. In this used car review we pick up Forester from February… Read more

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2018 SUBARU LIBERTY 3.6R REVIEW

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You may not believe it, given the exploding popularity of SUVs, but mid-sized sedans still tickle the fancy of buyers who see no need for a utility vehicle that will never leave the bitumen. This remains an important segment for manufacturers and buyers in this country looking for a mid-size sedan are rather spoilt for choice. The Subaru Liberty, which last got a pep-up in 2016, has been given a few extra sparkles both inside and out with the Japanese manufacturer hoping it will be enough to entice buyers until… Read more

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DRESSED-UP tS MAINTAINS SUBARU BRZ TRADITION

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Faux aristocrats such as those who people places like TV favourite Downton Abbey don’t hold the exclusive right to dress for the occasion. Automobiles too have a long tradition of showing off what they are about. One example of this is the BRZ, Subaru’s iconic sports coupe. Born out of a relationship with Toyota by sharing clobber with the 86 to produce a modern motoring aristocrat of its kind. Now Subaru has thrown in new equipment all round but has come up with a new range-topping tS variant. For example,… Read more

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SUBARU SUPERSTAR STILL HAS ALL THE MOVES

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‘Move over, coming through’, might well be the thoughts running through the mind of a driver catching a WRX STI looming ever larger in the rear-view mirror. Yes, since the first generation set the standard in the late 1990s, the Subaru super sports sedan still has all the moves. Now, the WRX and WRX STI, the latter suffix alluding to Subaru Tecnica International, the company’s performance arm, have undergone a non-too major refit for model year 2018 with both mechanical and cosmetic upgrades. The all-wheel drive turbocharged twins share external… Read more

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SUBARU LEVORG BLENDS STYLE WITH PERFORMANCE

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The crew from Monty Python may well have had the Subaru Levorg in mind when they coined the phrase “And now for something completely different …” because there’s nothing else on the Australian market that can quite match this Japanese station wagon’s combination of stylish looks, high-performance, practicality and value. For starters it’s a station wagon which makes it something of a rarity in this SUV-centric era. Add the fact that it shares much of its underbody componentry with Australia’s favourite performance car, the Subaru WRX. About the only ugly… Read more

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SUBARU BRINGS TEST DRIVES TO YOU

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Want to test drive Subaru on your home ground instead of out of a Subaru dealership? Thus using it on roads that are very familiar to you. Then have a Subaru be brought to your home, work or anywhere else that best suits. At this stage it’s a trial program only, operating only in the Sydney metro area and is limited to potential buyers of Impreza or XV. If it proves successful Subaru, will expand it to other capital and non-capital cities, and to other models in the range. The… Read more

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NEW SUV HAS SUBARU RACING INTO THE LEAD

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It appears Subaru has backed a winner with the new XV, with sales of the small sports utility vehicle up 139.0 per cent for August, pushing the maker to becoming the fastest growing top 10 brand in the automotive industry, according to official VFACTS figures. Subaru took a gamble with the XV, stepping out of the square with its sharper looks over the soft-skinned majority of the segment and augmenting this with technology designed to take on conditions other soft-roaders could only dream about tackling. The second-generation XV comes in… Read more