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Subaru BRZ price DOWN by £2,500

Subaru BRZ now down in price in the UK When the car you produce also gets made under another – higher profile – badge than your own, how to you get buyers to sit up and take notice of your offerings? Easy, you make your car better value. That’s exactly what Subaru are doing with the BRZ – the Subaru take on the Toyota GT86 – with a price cut of £2,500 arriving from May 1st, thanks to the weakening Yen, that takes the entry-level BRZ down to £23,995.

Chris Economaki was one of the good guys

I'm really going to miss Chris Economaki, who died this morning around midnight, 91 years young. Elsewhere on this site, you'll find writer Leo Levine's excellent tribute to Chris. In it, he pays compliments to Chris such as “he left a hole in the motorsports firmament that can never be filled.

Fiat and Chrysler get in to bed together

Before Christmas the CEO of Fiat was reported as saying that he believed that the current malaise in the car market (and any other market, for that matter) would result in the rationalisation of the industry, and see just a handful of big players come out the other side. His words now seem prescient, as it has been announced today that Fiat and Chrysler have effectively entered in to a partnership. Fiat takes a 35% stake in Chrysler The partnership, with Fiat taking 35% of Chrysler, means a number of benefits for both companies.