Subaru WRX 2023 News

There’s a new bit of hope from a very unlikely source for Subaru fans lamenting the demise of its iconic WRX STI.

Manual gearboxes are being killed off by the soulless, unromantic savages who want a car with an automatic transmission. Which is nearly everybody. So, the car manufacturers are making hardly any manual cars now. But for the few beacons of hope trying to save this rare animal from extinction we’ve made a list of new cars still with manuals that are for sale in Australia. But for how much longer?

Australians love wagons. But the advent of SUVs and their sheer popularity against waning sedan sales means that wagon numbers, too, have dropped. From nearly 40 different models to choose from a decade ago, today, that number is down to a dozen... and dropping.

The world is obsessed with SUVs with almost every carmaker now from Porsche to Peugeot not just making them but relying on them to make money.

As 2022 ends, it’s worth remembering that even road testers form attachments to cars.

We all know the past few years have been akin to a dumpster fire, thanks to that rotten pandemic, and a bunch of natural disasters. Oh and a war.