18 November 2009 - 17:00
Video: Subaru Forester hits Dakar
It may no longer be held anywhere near Dakar, but the Dakar rally is still genuinely, genuinely mental.
If you’re going to take the 6000-mile assault across South America – an assault crossing some of the most brutal terrain on earth, including the Atacama desert and the Andes – you need a beast of a machine.
Argentinian race team Barattero Motorsport reckons it has found such a beast in the shape of the Subaru Forester.
Called the Subaru Elaion, it’s a heavily-modified version of Subaru’s softroader armed with a 2.0-litre boxer four putting out 300bhp and 420lb ft of torque.
Under the carbon fibre and Kevlar body is a tubular sub-frame, dual shocks with a full nine inches of suspension travel, and all the assorted spades and kit and emergency flares required to survive the mighty Dakar,
We reckon it’s a thoroughly awesome thing, and Barattero has kindly put together an excellent video for your perusal. Drivers Yoshiu Ikemachi and Gabriel Pozzo will kick off Subaru’s assault on the Dakar on January 1 2010 – reckon they’ll make it?
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it's really like a..... you know like a.... oh it's like a subaru not good at all but nice try for a dakar rally car
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I think it will be a really good Dakar car. Well afterall it does come from a long line of rally cars!
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it will be a good dakar car. its big and jumps over hills. i dont really care what make is it as long as it does the job
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Atleast it has stock (appearing) rear lights and same logo on fron as stock Forester :D Subaru not good at all? wh-wh-what?
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It looks good but it's not as cool as the bowler wildcat.
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Definetly not Bowler Wildcat, although this is a handsome-looking brute.
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Mitsubishi, Peugeot, Audi... All these manufactures have had success in Rally and Dakar, Subaru will be another! I reckon they will do!
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needs more poweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer! but cool anyway!
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GET THE WILDCAT. as qwertyuiop (lol name) says: POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!
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That looks so good. I would like to see a small inline 6 in it, though. But it is hard to go wrong with the boxer.
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it's like they took scooby and turned him into a pitbull
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That's ONE hell of a beast....imagine driving that on the road
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Well it's better looking than most new Subarus. There should be a Forester STI. I think there's a JDM-only one, but they should sell it in the UK. Especially now we have plenty of niches. A high-speed Soft-Roader wouldn't seem that odd. And it would be way cooler than an X6 crossover.
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Nice front end, all forester should get that. I hope they will make it to the finish line!
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I want this! :) on the road though.
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yes,at least there's someone different for a change and a japanese manufacturer to boot.the dakar really took a hit with mitsubishi pulling out[they should have stuck to the pajero platform,and not made a fancy racing lancer].personally i would like to see quite a ew works teams besides volkswagen,a few privateer hummers and bowlers.. i would love to see dakar with a works land rover team,a works bmw team with racing x5's,a works toyota team with racing land cruiser's and a works nissan team with racing pathfinder's.i would have mentioned jeep but i doubt they have enough money to afford a plane ticket to argentina..
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that is a mighty looking beast but as everyone said needs more POWERRRR that boxer isn't enough!!!!!!!!!!!!! to cross the almighty dakar
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i thought it was a Gran Turismo 5 promo clip first!! but awesome machine!
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forrester on steroids!
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Just needs a back seat and rear windows and, as JC said of the M3 saloon, my 3 kids can have their spleens crushed too. Seriously though, Subaru should build an STi Forester kind of like that. I'd pay for that exhaust noise.
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No question about it Subaru can win in their class., looks awesome.
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cool! but they should make a land rover :D
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Looks like quite a machine. I'll be rooting for it as a Subaru owner myself. (WOOO First Post!)
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whoops...never mind, there was a glitch and I couldn't see the other posts
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it's really like a..... you know like a.... oh it's like a subaru not good at all but nice try for a dakar rally car
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