Biggest automotive YouTube sensation, Ken Block teamed up with biggest grammatical YouTube sensation, Marina from Hot For Words to explain the word Gymkhana. Worth a watch, even if its just to see Marian overflowing from the DC wifebeater, but we’re not sure she really explained the root of the word Gymkhana properly. Dictionary.com defines Gymkhana [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about whether Ken Block could stand up against world rally champ 40 times over, Sebastien Loeb. Most of verdicts say Block is nothing more than a showman – good for gymkhana displays of car control and little else. Thing is, when the guy isn’t pimping DC Shoes like they’ll [...]
I do love the interwebs, especially when they serve up tasty rumors like this one. Supposedly Subaru is meditating on the notion of bringing the SVX back to the streets. You remember the SVX, right? The car that barely sold, lacked the performance backbone to tackle the competition and had some of the strangest windows [...]
Yep. After much deliberation, we went with the 2004 Forester 2.5 XT. The reasons for snagging Subaru’s wagon/CUV thing over the likes of a Legacy GT wagon or even an Outback XT are numerous, starting with the fact that some lucky soul was signing the papers on the five-speed Outback I laid eyes on way [...]
This time with Rob Dyrdek. Hoon of the ages Ken Block just rolled out yet another Gymkhana video, this time including some go-kart shenanigans. While Dyrdek usually keeps himself to skateboard hooliganism, the guy slid himself down into a scale replica of Block’s Crawford-prepped Subaru STI to do battle with Block. Hilarity ensues. There are [...]
My first road-legal car was a 1986 Acura Legend. When I took possession, it had a lofty 214,000 miles on the clock, and though the 2.5-liter V6 had let a few of its 151 ponies escape from the farm, it was still plenty powerful for a 16 year-old in the back woods of Virginia. Mated [...]
Ever notice how when you’re single you never have just one potential mate? If the cosmic order was bereft of irony, you’d stumble upon a single, perfect individual, the clouds would part and angels would sing. Unfortunately, it’s not like that. Or, at least it’s never been that way with me. After a lengthy dry [...]
Behold: a 1969 Subaru 360 by the name of Mr. Myagi with a mere 24,600 miles on the clock. I’m guessing cruising that kind of distance in a 360 cc bubble probably feels much, much farther. There aren’t really any 0-60 times available for this car, mostly because the 360 – Ladybug, in Japan – [...]
Spec. B, if I were choosing. While Subaru is largely regarded as the granola-eating alternative to Japanese family-haulers out there, occasionally the company gets a wild hair and rolls out gems like the WRX STI, or this sucker. See, before Subaru decided all wagons were Outbacks and sedans were Legacies, there was the Legacy 2.5 [...]
Man, leave for two weeks and suddenly long-dead concepts come back from the grave. You remember the 086A, right? It’s the rear-wheel drive collaboration worked up by Toyota and Subaru that got back-burnered when the global economy went dumpster diving. Well, dry your eyes Pleiades fans. It looks like a rendering of the car has [...]
