A family-friendly SUV has beaten tough competitors to win the 2018 New Zealand Car of the Year.The Forester is the first Subaru to take the New Zealand Motoring Writers’ Guild’s accolade and also only the second sports utility to take the prize, the first being the 2017 holder, Skoda’s Kodiaq.Ten finalists competed for the...
The Forester has been with us for over 20 years, and is now in its fourth generation. Would this new facelifted 2019 model year Forester live up to the high standards that its sister cars have set recently? Subaru gave us one for a couple of weeks to find out.The RangeThere are three models in the Forester range, and they all...
For the third year running the Automobile Council brings classic and modern together in Tokyo. One of the few classic car shows in Japan, the Automobile Council is slowly building a reputation as the go-to show to buy and sell classic car, ogle at the latest and greatest, and get away from the summer heat. Held at the Makuhari...
The 88th Geneva International Motor Show kicked off earlier this week and as usual saw the debut of a whole host of bright and shiny new cars. Geneva may not be the biggest motor show on the calendar but it’s certainly one of the best and most important.From the latest physics-defying hypercars only the wealthiest of Swiss bankers...
The Subaru WRX STi has been around since the Impreza was given the performance treatment back in 2007. With the current generation, the Impreza and WRX are considered different ranges, and they have very different specs and personalities. We had a good time with the WRX few weeks ago and were looking forward to testing the STi version....
With all the hype that went with the Honda Civic Type R launch last year, people seemed to forget we already have a road-going racer available to us, and have had for decades: the Subaru WRX.It was almost the perfect scenario. I stepped out of the 2018 Subaru Levorg I had had for a few weeks, and straight into the WRX – same motor,...
The Levorg came to New Zealand late last year as the spiritual successor to the Legacy GT Wagon. In case you were wondering, the unusual name comes from a combination of LEgacy, reVOlution, touRinG. We were pretty impressed with the original, and now there’s a revised version. Have they improved on the formula?The...
Sometimes I wonder about Subaru’s model range. Along with the Forester AWD (All Wheel Drive) wagon, the Impreza AWD wagon, the Levorg AWD wagon, the Outback AWD wagon, and along comes yet another AWD wagon, the updated 2017 XV. They are different sizes (apparently) but they don’t look that different. Subaru says the XV is a Compact...
It seems like Suzuki - probably along with quite a few other manufacturers - are feeling the pain from the bargain of the year that is the $29,990, AWD Subaru Impreza.Still, one way to get back in the game is to fight fire with fire, so Suzuki have released a new limited edition model, the 2WD Vitara SE, priced at $29,990.It's...
