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QOTD: Subaru BRZ Will Live To Fight Another Generation, Says Fuji Heavy Boss
“If I were to be told that, I’d pass out…It’s not going to be just one generation.” -Fuji Heavy Industries President Yasuyuki Yoshinaga Automotive News is reporting that the head of Fuji Heavy...
View ArticleWhat Is This Performance BRZ/FR-S and Where Can We Get One?
Our friends over at AutoGuide have a juicy story about a patent filing from Toyota that details a decidedly BRZ STI-looking drawing that may signal a performance variant on its way. According to...
View ArticleAmong Sports Cars, New Beats Old: FR-S Hits New Low As MX-5 Takes Over
November 2015 produced the lowest full-month U.S. sales total for the Scion FR-S in its history. November 2015 also produced the sixth consecutive year-over-year Mazda MX-5 Miata monthly sales...
View ArticleDoug Drives: Is Old-School Rebadging Dead?
So I got up behind a Dodge Grand Caravan the other day and I started thinking about my youth. This is because, in my youth, the Dodge Grand Caravan was an acceptable vehicle to drive, and not something...
View ArticleToyota 86 Shooting Brake Lands Down Under, Probably Won’t See Light of Dealer...
The main complaint levied against the Toyota GT86 (and Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ twins) is its supposed lack of power, even though it pumps out 200 horses. Coming in at a close second on the 2+2 hatchback...
View ArticleSubaru Hopes BRZ Design Tweaks, Power Bump Get Buyers Hot and Bothered
Are modest improvements in looks and power enough to revive consumer interest in the Subaru BRZ? The automaker sure hopes so. A host of small changes were just announced for the rear-drive coupe’s 2017...
View ArticleHow Sports Are Your Cars? We Have Answers
Even Mazda, we told you last week, is now selling more crossovers than cars. One-third of Chevrolet’s U.S. volume is produced by pickup trucks. An SUV now generates more than half of the Bentley...
View ArticleNAIAS Tidbit: Subaru BRZ On The Ground, er, Platform
Rotating alone on a turntable: the Subaru BRZ. Looks good, if you ask me. Unfortunately we couldn’t touch the dashboard for all of you dash-touchers out there… more shots after the jump. The post NAIAS...
View ArticleA Dozen NAIAS Takeaways From Michael Karesh
With all of the leaks, it’s not so easy to be surprised at NAIAS. But I managed to learn a thing or two by attending. My top dozen takeaways: 1. Compared to a Lamborghini, a Ferrari seems…normal. Which...
View ArticleConflicting Information Leaves Subaru BRZ Future In Doubt
The Subaru BRZ has been struggling along since hitting its sales peak in 2013, and its recent refresh hasn’t done much to help it rebound on the sales charts. Now, thanks to conflicting information...
View ArticleWinging It: Subaru Reveals Limited Edition 2018 WRX STI Type RA and BRZ tS
It’s a lot of letters, but not a lot of extra horsepower. That’s the synopsis of two limited edition performance models revealed by Subaru today. We already knew both were on the way, and indeed the...
View ArticleThe Toyota 86 Will Never Be Turbocharged, so Shut Up About It
Tetsuya Tada, chief engineer for the Toyota 86 and upcoming Supra, has finally stamped out the possibility of a from-the-factory turbocharged version of the Toyobaru coupe. That’s right, enthusiasts,...
View ArticleToyota and Subaru Might Actually Be Working on a New 86/BRZ Sports Coupe
It was only a few weeks ago that we told everyone a turbocharged Toyobaru would never happen. Chief engineer Tetsuya Tada said Toyota had built the car it wanted and any manner of forced induction...
View ArticleFuture Collectable: 2019 Toyota 86 TRD Special Edition
It was rumored that Toyota would eventually bring some hardware from its Gazoo Racing sub-brand into the U.S. through Toyota Racing Development. Well, the automaker appears to have finally done so,...
View Article2019 Subaru BRZ’s ‘Series.Gray’ Treatment Could Lead to Dozens of New Sales
Outside of the addition of extra horsepower, it doesn’t seem like anything’s capable of turning the Subaru BRZ and its Toyota 86 twin into sales powerhouses. Even the power hypothesis is debatable....
View ArticleFragile Valve Springs Leads to Global Toyota-Subaru Recall
The defunct Scion brand isn’t done making headlines, it seems. The rear-drive FR-S 2+2 sport coupe is among a number of vehicles — mainly Subarus — recalled over valve springs that could break, leading...
View ArticleWill the Subaru BRZ Survive If Toyota Nixes the 86?
News of the Toyota Supra’s four-cylinder engine, currently relegated to the Japanese market, bolstered media assumptions that the base model could eventually replace the 86 coupe in North America....
View ArticleLive or Die: What’s the Real Deal With the Toyobaru Twins?
January was peppered with claims that the Subaru BRZ And Toyota 86 aren’t long for this world. Rumors, which began spreading last year, stated the models weren’t selling well enough for either brand to...
View ArticleToyota Exec Confirms Development of Next-gen 86/BRZ
As the future of the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ began looking rather bleak in the West, we spent the the better part of this year trying to figure out the automakers’ next move. While both automakers...
View ArticleToyobaru Twins Will See a Second Generation As Toyota and Subaru Expand...
Following a long period of speculation, the future of the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ — affordable, jointly-developed rear-drive sport coupes that American buyers seem allergic to — has now become clear....
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