Subaru Impreza News

Introduced in May 2007 to just five U.S. cities, Street View has given a whole new dimension to Google Maps.

The big story with the 2014 Subaru Forester is that you get a lot of car for the money.

The standby of the Street View fleet is the car, in this case a Subaru Impreza. Google is showing this one off at the Google I/O 2013 show in San Francisco.

In 2010, famed rally driver Tommi Makinen set a record for fastest run around the NA1 4rburgring in a Subaru Impreza, lapping the track in 7 minutes and 55 seconds in a WRX STI Spec C. A few weeks ago, a group of British tuners set out to see if they could beat that record.

In recent Canadian editions of Metro - the free daily distributed at transit stops - Subaru ran a two-page spread spouting just about every negative transit, and transit rider, stereotype you can think of.

Subaru of Indiana Automotive's parent company Fuji Heavy Industries will invest more than $400 million in the Lafayette plant to bring Impreza production to the United States.

Subaru plans to invest at least $400 million to expand its factory in Lafayette and will add 900 workers to build the Impreza compact car there in 2016, company officials said Wednesday morning.

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru cars, will invest $400 million to boost U.S. capacity by the end of 2016 as demand rises for its vehicles including the Forester SUV and XV crossover.

Subaru, the only automaker to boost U.S. sales in each of the past five years, plans to expand production capacity at its Indiana factory by about 30 percent and add output of the Impreza compact car by 2016.

Writer Berta Gaulke points out that riding in the Subaru Impreza is an order of magnitude more dangerous than riding the city bus and that it spews toxic emissions the same as any other internal combustion powered vehicle.

Rally-racing and Subarus are as closely woven together as the Gore-Tex fibres that make up the clothes of the people who buy them.

The company said it was the best April in its history, with sales of 32,943 vehicles.

Midi-SUVs are undergoing something of a renaissance. For the longest time, they were slightly over-glazed alternatives to MPVs.

In the compact sedan market, the top spot has been dominated by the Honda Civic for - well, almost forever.

A BUILDING worker who ploughed into his former lover's partner in a high-powered car avoided a custodial sentence.