Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Secret Subaru is a stunner

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LOOKS like we got it wrong. Remember last year's Tokyo show and how the international media - including Carsguide - classified the silver-coloured Advanced Tourer Concept as Subaru's next generation Legacy/Liberty?

Here's our correction. We're the first publication in the English-speaking world to reveal that this concept wagon is not the new Legacy but the prototype of the highly anticipated next-generation WRX.

This artist's impression from our mates at Holiday Auto magazine accompanies what we have been able to glean from a Subaru insider about the company's all-new flagship sports car.

Firstly, the car will get similar headlights, airdam, grille and front brake ducts that we see on the Advanced Tourer Concept.

Its side profile also resembles the Tourer, while the new WRX incorporates far more aggressive front and rear-wheel arches and fenders. We can expect a five-door wagon and sedan. 

When Subaru tried to appeal to a wider audience by softening up its 2008 WRX, it was universally panned. This planted the seed for the radical decision to totally divorce Impreza from WRX.

The WRX employs a heavily modified Impreza platform, but dispenses altogether with the suffix Impreza.

Product planners resolved to redefine the WRX from a raw cult hero into a more mature, sporty grand tourer with higher interior quality but with suspension to satisfy hardcore fans. 

Our insider confirms Subaru is testing new FA series 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre doxer DIT direct injection turbo engines and a 1.6-litre turbo with hybrid - the Advanced Tourer Concept's powertrain.

Courtesy: news.au.com

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Next-Gen Subaru WRX Previewed in Advanced Tourer concept

Subaru’s well-respected rally car split with its Impreza baby brother to sit on a new platform this year. Information on the latest-edition boy racer car has been difficult to find, but it seems likely that either an FA series 1.6- or 2.0-liter direct injected turbo boxer engine will make it under the hood. The 2.0 version seems like a strong candidate for the WRX variant, but nothing is confirmed yet.

Confirmation on go-fast parts aside, the WRX’s styling has always been something of hot debate. The love-it-or-leave-it beastly back wing of previous generations and the toned-down version that came after it both had styling that was anything but conservative. Now, according to sources connected to Motor Trend, we know quite a bit more about the new generation’s styling.

Heavy front-end styling influence from the Advanced Tourer will probably mean the chunkier front brake ducts and new headlights. A wider-mouth, more open grille like the one seen above will probably also work it way in. Overall, the car will likely adopt a more angular style than what we’ve seen with the current generation, with sharper hips and a more aggressive look.

Courtesy: AutoGuide.com

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Monday, May 21, 2012

The 3rd Annual Sewickley Unleashed parade & street fair

The Baierl Team was happy to support the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society at this year’s event!

Take a look at some pictures from the event here!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Schedule your service appointment today!

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Subaru WRX STI Cracks AutoGuide.com's "Top 10 Cheapest Cars with 300 Horsepower" List

First on our list is the rally-tested Subaru WRX STI. The performance-oriented vehicle is the first of three sedans that made the top 10, and features Subaru’s symmetrical all-wheel drive and a turbocharged 2.5-liter Boxer engine, which pumps out 305-hp. The cheapest WRX STI is the four-door model, which also has the STI’s instantly recognizable rear spoiler. With a top speed of 160 mph,  the four-door also has a slightly higher top-speed than its five-door counterpart. The WRX STI can get to 60 mph from a standing start in under 5 seconds, and it’s all-wheel drive helps it gobble up the road as fast as anything else on this list. It starts at $34,095.

Courtesy: AutoGuide.com

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Next Subaru WRX to use electric turbocharger?

Subaru has been trying to figure out the direction for its three-headed monster, as the Impreza and its WRX and WRX STI variants have grown increasingly at odds over the past two generations. Now this gets thrown into the mix: When the new WRX gets released in late 2013, it may ditch the traditional exhaust-gas powered turbocharger for a new, electric design.

That's right, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, Subaru is working on an electric turbo, shades of those computer-fan-sourced "power adders" you used to see advertised in the back pages of Sport Compact Car a decade ago. Except we would assume Subie-parent Fuji Heavy Industries is developing a design that actually works. According to the report, heat from the exhaust would be captured, but instead of using the exhaust pressure to turn the turbocharger's turbine, the heat energy would be converted to electricity, which would then spin the impellers. This could be more efficient, as well as eliminating the piping and turbo lag.

While that sounds neat and all, we're not so sure we want to see an unproven technology like this applied to one of our favorite affordable performance cars. Unless, of course, it allows for BMW M3-like performance in a $30,000 car.

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Courtesy: AutoBlog