Subaru has made quite an effort to reach a new buyer demographic with the current WRX. To extend the car’s reach even further the WRX STI is about to receive an automatic transmission, To be dubbed the WRX STI A-line, the new model will retain all of the oily bits purists love [...]

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Tipped by TMR to be the performance car “bang for your bucks” buy of 2008, the Mitsubishi Ralliart has been formally announced by Mitsubishi today. With the Evo X and the Impreza STi squaring off, the Ralliart has the standard Impreza WRX firmly in its sights.

The interesting news here is that the Ralliart features Mitsubishi’s [...]

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More Impreza WRX STi footage. This time its in Japanese but well worth a look. Click through for the vid.

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The latest wave of hype and speculation has come to an end today with the opening of the Tokyo motor show and the official release of the Subaru WRX STI amongst other iconic Japanese cars such as the Nissan GT-R.

Although no new pictures have been released since our last coverage, Subaru have fed us full [...]

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The new 2007 WRX is certainly nothing to look at - and thats not just my opinion but the resounding consensus from car enthusiasts around the world. However, the 2008 WRX STi is shaping up altogether differently. The transformation from boring WRX hatch to wide, squat and very serious STi is remarkable as the following [...]

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After many ‘teasers’ and speculation, the wraps have finally been taken off the new 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI ahead of its international debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in a few weeks.

Based on the current WRX hatch, the STI has shortened front and rear bumpers to reduce overhang and emphasize the ‘wheel at [...]

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Suzuki are on a roll at the moment with their enormously successful Swift and the more recently released SX4 proving very popular in Australia. A combination of excellent dynamics, build quality and competitive pricing has made Suzuki’s new models unbeatable value.

As if that wasn’t enough there is now a whisper that Suzuki are considering producing [...]

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We’ve seen the pictures of the disguised test mule at the Nurburgring a couple of times now but these are the first undisguised on-road pictures of the new 2008 Impreza WRX STi (taken in Japan) that we’ve come across.

Unfortunately, the car pictured is white which makes it harder to distinguish some of the lines but [...]

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Amid some fanfare and plenty of booing from the peanut gallery Subaru Australia released the first official Australian image of the 2008 Impreza WRX. The most obvious and possibly only cosmetic change is the revised grille which is certainly an improvement on the waffle pattern grille seen on the new WRX so far.

The real [...]

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2008 Bathurst WPS 12-hour results

Performance car and racing enthusiasts are being blessed with another great Bathurst motorsport weekend. A 12 hour Showroom Enduro at Mt Panorama over the Easter Weekend is part of the new Bathurst International Motor Festival. This looks like being a fantastic race as it harks back to the original spirit of [...]

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