20-mile-long convoy of Subarus to celebrate life of Colin McRae

Filed under: Motorsports, Subaru, UK, Celebrities The picture at right was taken a just a day after the rally legend was killed in a tragic helicopter crash near his home in Lanarkshire. Without prompting, rally fans from across the UK drove to Scotland to hold a memorial in the McRaes’ hometown, which quickly filled up [...]

American-made Formula Nippon car debuts at Fuji

Filed under: Motorsports, Japan Just under a year since the concept was announced, two brand new 2009 Formula Nippon chassis, designed and built by California’s Swift Engineering, have gone through shakedown trials at Fuji Speedway. Autoblog spoke to Team Toyota TOM’S Andre Lotterer, one of the first two F’pon pilots to take the radically designed [...]

Takuma Sato back on Track

Filed under: Motorsports, Japan, UK, Celebrities Takuma Sato’s fans had pretty much given up on seeing their idol on track this past weekend at the British Grand Prix. Many of them had bought plane and/or GP tickets well in advance, only to be disappointed when Super Aguri followed Minardi, and Arrows in to the annals [...]

Subaru Exiga: Up close and personal

Filed under: Minivans/MPVs, Wagons/Estates, Japan, Subaru Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2008 Subaru Exiga. When we showed you Subaru’s new MPV last week your response was pretty much unanimous: man that is fugly. The car’s reception on the other side of the Pacific has been a lot warmer though, particularly for the [...]

Free tape measure, ‘Ring tuition for European GT-R buyers

Filed under: Car Buying, Sports/GTs, Nissan, UK Hundreds of European GT-R buyers, who have put down large down payments on cars that they won’t see until next spring at the earliest, have received a small consolation gift from Nissan: a tape measure. The highly cool GT-R-embossed little box is to be used to measure their [...]