Tests and Features

St. John’s, Newfoundland – Twenty years have gone by since the first Outback appeared. Back then, it was little more than a taller and slightly more butch version of the Legacy wagon with a pair of fog lights under the grille and more muscular rocker panels to give it a …

This week, The Car Guide travels to Newfoundland to check out the new 2015 Subaru Outback! Following the complete redesign of the Legacy, the Outback also received numerous upgrades over the previous version: a new, more mature look, better interior finish, more space inside the cabin and better soundproofing, among …

How do you get ahead in the mid-size sedan segment? If you're the all-new 2015 Subaru Legacy, you do it by combining trademark standard all-wheel drive - a segment exclusive - with fresh styling and improved fuel efficiency that finally puts you on par with the industry's leading lights. After …

LAFAYETTE, Indiana – To understand and fully appreciate the new Legacy, you have to know that the rock stars at Subaru are their engineers. It’s not the stylists, not the accountants, not the marketing execs and not even the marketing girls. This isn’t just my opinion. In fact, these are …

The Car Guide is in Indinana this week to try the latest Subaru Legacy. The 2015 Subaru Legacy was unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show a few months ago. The midsize sedan got a more mature look, dropping the older styling for a more mainstream approach which should be more …

When the current-generation Subaru Impreza first came out it was a landmark achievement for the Japanese brand. Finally, Subaru was able to offer an all-wheel drive car whose fuel efficiency was competitive with the rest of the compact crowd. Two years later the 2014 Subaru Impreza is still going strong, …

“Just because we’re affordable, it doesn’t mean we aren’t fun to drive!” This is no doubt the sort of thing you’d hear from the free-spirited cars that dominate this category, including the 2014 Ford Focus ST, 2014 Volkswagen GTI, 2014 Scion FR-S/2014 Subaru BRZ, 2014 Ford Mustang, 2014 Hyundai Genesis …

The WRX and WRX STI have been the objects of admiration for years and, as with nearly all cult cars, every small change is carefully scrutinized by purists. Thus, people have a lot to say now that Subaru has introduced a new-generation WRX and WRX STI for 2015, in a …

It looms in your mind like a monster from the depths of a childhood nightmare. A stretch of asphalt that twists until the ground drops out from underneath your wheels, snagging you in its negative-G embrace so that it can smother your feeble attempts at fending off its physics-bending topography …

2013 has been a great year to be a gearhead. It seemed like every couple of weeks one automaker or another was announcing an exciting new vehicle or releasing a special edition of a well-loved favourite. There were also some important things going on behind the scenes, too, that revitalized …