Tests and Features

The Legacy sedan is different this year. What, you hadn’t noticed? Granted, the modifications are not exactly spectacular, but that’s because this sedan was entirely revamped in 2010. At any rate, flashy changes are not the Subaru way. Instead, this brand prefers to tweak the details that you notice in …

Subaru is one of the pioneering brands when it comes to building crossovers, having given the world the Outback in the 1990s, a vehicle that blurred the line between wagon and SUV and which found a ready-made audience that few automakers had previously thought to tap. Flash forward to 2013 …

The concept of a rear-wheel drive Subaru is as foreign to most Canadians as the idea of Toyota pitching in to help build an exciting car. And yet here we are with the 2013 Subaru BRZ, by far the most exciting automobile in the Japanese brand's lineup and the direct …

Subaru is a company with a built-in customer base, one which is incredibly loyal and willing to embrace the quirkier design aspects that have long identified the automaker's products. The danger of enjoying such a devoted following is that a company can be tempted to ignore certain industry trends and …

If you’ve seen the new edition of Le Guide de l’auto and leafed through its 678 pages, you already know that the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ were crowned Cars of the Year. These two new coupes share the title because they’re practically identical twins born of a joint project …

The 2012 Subaru Impreza is new – or at least the base trim is. But the changes are nothing to write home about, as nothing major has been overhauled. The 2012 looks a whole lot like the previous version. That said, the trained eye will note several modifications to the …

Do you remember the Subaru Outback Sport? This version of the Impreza wagon wore the same style of body cladding as the Legacy-based Outback and featured bit of a boost in the ride height department, giving the Outback Sport a modicum of soft-roading capability that played well with adventure-seeking drivers.

A new coupe that wants to be a sports car but comes with two-wheel drive and no turbocharger? This begs the question, did Subaru planners fall and hit their heads, or what? Not at all, in fact. We’d even say the opposite after examining and driving the BRZ on a …

There are just four cars with AWD for less than $25,000 on the market: the Subaru Impreza, Mitsubishi Lancer, Toyota Matrix and Suzuki SX4. Interestingly, they’re all Japanese. We threw them all in the ring together. Four contenders We brought these rivals together on a particularly wet December 15th. Raining?

For several years now, Japanese automaker Subaru has seen its sales steadily increase. This encouraging trend notwithstanding, Subaru still wants to improve its product line. This time, it’s the Impreza’s turn for a profound transformation. Not only was it time to bring this vehicle up to current standards, but research …