CGI can do amazing videos

I've never seen anyone put the stickers on the bumper guard before, this is new. I wonder why they aren't on the hatchback or window

Marty Simonich, a volunteer firefighter and EMT in Utah, has been driving his 2001 Subaru Outback Legacy for 24 years, and it will soon reach 1 million miles, but Subaru corporate headquarters in Camden, New Jersey, isn't saying if they'll celebrate.

The car has gone through multiple engines, at least one transmission, head gaskets, spark plugs, coils, alternators, injectors, power steering components, brakes, rotors, timing belts, and a $1,000 exhaust system.

Growing up, he worked as the night manager at an Arctic Circle in Utah, saving up $800 for a down payment on a 1964 Chevelle with a Hurst shifter and a 283 engine. He raced it on the boulevard during school hours and got in trouble for it.

The hands-on mechanical knowledge Simonich started gathering in his teens has kept the Legacy running when others might have sent it to the junkyard.

Some of the most memorable miles came during a road trip to Kentucky. A friend in the St. Charles area, along the Utah-Idaho border, discovered a stash of old whiskey after a grandfather passed away.

Among the bottles was an unopened 1913 of Kentucky Flyer Bourbon from the Peerless Distillery, still bearing its original U.S. government seal.

The family who discovered the bottle didn't want to discuss it publicly for religious reasons. After all, the one unopened bottle was found among many more empties. They also didn't want to risk shipping the fragile, century-old bottle via FedEx.

So Simonich volunteered to drive it back to Kentucky himself and deliver it to the current owners at Peerless Distillery.

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/06/utah-mans-2001-subaru-about-to-hit-1-million-miles/

interesting... I wonder if they are a fan of Gene Wolfe

Pastrana and the Hoonigan guys are going to make a video, in Australia, and this is what he'll be tearing up tires with, the Brataroo

Set Down Under in the land that coined the term “hoon,” the latest entry in the viral Gymkhana film series will take place across Australia, with Travis Pastrana behind the wheel of his third fully bespoke Gymkhana Subaru, the all-new 1978 Subaru Brataroo 9500 Turbo

The lightweight carbon fiber widebody machine utilizes a rallycross-derived, turbocharged 2.0-liter boxer engine. Built by Vermont SportsCar, the four-cylinder delivers 670 horsepower, 680 lb-ft of torque channeled through the car’s all-wheel-drive system via a six-speed sequential SADEV gearbox and motorsport-grade differentials.

The next Gymkhana film "Aussie Shred" premieres early December on the Hoonigan YouTube channel.

I only just leaned a day ago that there is an off road rally trail at Goodwood Festival of Speed, and now I learn... Travis Pastrana was giving 150 second rides at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed’s Forest Rally grounds, to lucky passengers in the Subaru WRX ARA25 rally car

the WRX’s times on Friday were only about a second behind those of the top-flight World Rally Championship cars from Toyota, Hyundai, and Ford that were also contesting the stage this weekend. 

Skip to 45 minute mark to see Pastrana's run begin, but only to the first turn, then the camera crew focuses on other drivers, until 46:50 when they get back to Pastrana

https://www.thedrive.com/features/riding-with-travis-pastrana-in-a-subaru-rally-car-is-chaos-at-its-most-graceful

https://www.hagerty.com/media/motorsports/goodwoods-hill-climb-is-a-fever-dream-but-the-rally-stage-might-be-even-better

I haven't seen a painted window in a long time... this is NICE!

Subaru just did something very cool! They put ruler marks on the 2026 Outback's taillight!

 https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-2026-subaru-outback-has-a-ruler-built-into-its-taillights

and we learn about this Easter Egg just days before Easter! Neat!

Remember that Subaru that was returned aka "crashed" into the dealership windows to get to the middle of the Utah showroom in December? That inspired someone to do the same with another Subaru!

for the second time in three months, a silver Subaru has been wrathfully driven directly into the offices of a car dealership.

March 8, at a CarMax store in Inglewood, California. CarMax told KTLA that a customer had been getting his vehicle appraised. The ABC outlet reported: “Witnesses said the customer apparently didn’t like the offer, snapped and got back into his parked car. After a couple attempts, he drove through the front door.” Eight people are said to have been injured, two critically

https://www.thedrive.com/news/carmax-customer-crashes-subaru-into-showroom-after-apparently-bad-appraisal-offer

Richard Hammonds, and his daughter, hit the track to see who was faster.... old age, or young reflexes?

https://www.hotcars.com/hanmond-and-his-daughter-go-head-to-head-on-the-track/

unhappy Subaru customer in 3...., 2..., 1..

 

Makes me wonder how the person holding the phone to record this video knew how to be in the right spot at the right time to get an unobstructed view and yet not be in the path of the car

I think enough people have recently proved that there is a limit to how much they will accept, how much they will put up with, before they decide to strike back (health care insurance CEOs learned) and now a guy with a crappy new car RETURNED IT when the dealership refused to take it back

So, will anyone listen now? Can you hear him, now? 

Remember, it was a 2 cent tax on tea that kicked the English King's govt out on the colonies on North America. It wasn't something major, it was a lot of trivial shit, until they decided that they'd had enough of a damn king on the other side of the ocean. 

Well, this guy decided, no more full price for crap cars, accept the return, and refund the money, or get it delivered back to the show room the HARD WAY

https://www.thedrive.com/news/buyers-remorse-man-crashes-subaru-into-dealership-after-they-refused-to-take-it-back

Michael Lee Murray, 35, bought the vehicle from the Mazda dealership earlier in the day on Monday. He later called the dealership to return the car

While on the phone with the dealership, Murray was told that the sale was final, and the car was an “as-is” purchase.

https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/man-drives-front-car-dealership/

Do you get the same thought I did.... he returned the car, and now the dealership has the car back the same way they sold it to him "as is"

I find the reasons that some things were built they way they were, interesting when it turns out that there were design decisions made based only on getting around tax laws (three wheelers) or import laws (the famous "Chicken Tax")

 

I just learned why it had those rear seats in the bed!

It was a way to get around the 25% “chicken tax” on trucks; with four passenger seats, it was no longer a truck, but an open air tourer, or something like that; a passenger car, in any case.

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-asian/curbside-classic-1981-subaru-brat-with-third-eye-passing-lamp-a-brief-passing-fad/

If you haven't heard of the Chicken Tax before, I posted about it in 2011 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chicken-war-and-chicken-tax-and-what.html

Subaru’s center-mounted “Passing Lamp”... something I've never heard of until now

 it was called “Passing Lamp” for the first two year of production, it was changed to just “Center Lamp” in 1982, the final year of its brief three-year run.

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-asian/curbside-classic-1981-subaru-brat-with-third-eye-passing-lamp-a-brief-passing-fad/

the ugliest car I've never heard of, the 1999 Subaru Impreza Casa Blanca. Maybe Subaru thought the Aztec calendar end of days, or the Y2k bug, or some other catastrophe was going to end us all, and might as well get the ugly crap sold out of the warehouse parts bins first?

 

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-impreza-casa-blanca-was-the-ugly-subaru-no-one-asked-for

I shit you not, I've collected the ugliest god damn cars ever made at this link: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/ugly  most of them have never been discovered by the click bait idiots that keep trying to get you to look at the effing Pontiac Aztek etc

Ford is targeting Subaru owners with a conquest incentive for the Bronco family,

in recent months, Ford has launched those types of incentives that aim to get Challenger/Charger and Camaro owners to purchase a new Ford Mustang, as well as existing Jeep owners a discount on a new Bronco.

But the Subaru incentive only applies to the Seattle area. A Subaru stronghold of loyalty

https://fordauthority.com/2024/04/ford-bronco-family-gets-special-discount-for-subaru-owners/

I like this... letting your sense of humor run wild, loose, and free

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=392605493412005&set=a.295954173077138

the 1986 Subaru XT Turbo was the most aerodynamic production car sold in North America with a drag coefficient of only 0.29, which was only bettered by two other vehicles in the entire world

it was manufactured by Fuji

good advertising technique, use adorable dogs, and humor

ok, clearly the better vanity plate versions of "Subaru" were taken