Subiesport Magazine

Spice up the office walls!

Get photos straight out of Subiesport Magazine for your home, office, garage or dorm! Starting with the new issue, we are offering select photos from each issue as professional prints -- from 4x6 photos, to massive 30x40-inch photographic enlargements. You can also buy mugs, coasters and more adorned with your favorite photos! Check out photos.mediaspigot.com to browse photos from the April/May issue right now! Note that watermarks (the Subiesport logo on each pic in the online browser) are removed from all purchased images.

April/May issue of Subiesport

The April/May issue of Subiesport was dropped at the post office today. We also decided to make the digital edition available today as well. Print subscribers will receive their access codes in the next 48-hours. Digital subscribers can access it immediately. Everyone else can peruse 15 pages (any 15 pages, so click wisely) of the issue by selecting "Preview" when prompted for a login.

We're really happy with this issue. Where the last issue focused on the world-wide Subaru community, this new one has a heavy focus on the cars and making them even better: From tuning the 2008 Impreza STI for more power to testing Endura-Tech coilovers on our Project Legacy GT. We even have our annual rally guide and one of our reporters tells of drinking to excess and getting naked in the Arctic circle -- hey, somebody's got to do it.

Here's the complete content roundup: Tuning the 2008 Impreza STI, Hot bugeye wagon, STI in Pink, Harman Motive's white wonder, 2008 Rally Guide, Alcan 5000, WRC coverage, 100 Acre Wood, Kumakubo and fuel system tech with Tim Bailey. Project Legacy GT gets a new grille from Mach V motorsports, a blingin' BOV from Go Fast Bits and Global Performance Parts, plus hot coilovers tested from Endura-Tech. Project Dreadnought (1993 Impreza L Wagon) gets the following: 22B Widebody kit from HTAutos, fresh clutch and flywheel, Whiteline suspension bits from Global Performance Parts.

This new issue will be available on newsstands the first week of May or via our company store (www.carzines.com), immediately. If you subscribe to the print edition between now and May 6, this issue will be your first issue on the subscription as we're now doing "second mailings" to minimize the lag time for new subscribers. New digital subscribers will receive immediate access to the issue.

Canadian Postal Delays

Subiesport shipped its Canadian copies along with the US deliveries, back on February 15. After receiving numerous inquiries from our Canadian subscribers about issues not arriving, we did some checking and this was what we found out:

According to our shipper, due to the weak US dollar there is a huge spike in US orders from Canadians. This increase has swamped Canadian customs and has delayed all shipments into the country. If you haven't received your copy yet, it's coming. Even if we mailed a replacement issue it, too, would be delayed at the border and would most likely arrive after our original mailings.

This problem isn't unique to Subiesport. Our press also handles Grassroots Motorsports, Sports Car International and other big titles. They indicated that they are receiving the same information for all the magazines going into Canada right now.

Please allow an additional week, March 21, before requesting a replacement issue to Canada, to allow time for Canadian customs and the Canadian Postal Service to do their part.

Reader's Rides: Boxer Rumble

The Feb/March issue of Subiesport Magazine features our first-ever "Boxer Rumble" Edition of Reader's Rides. The object of this is to vote on your favorite ride of the issue by sending an SMS message from your phone. The car that wins gets some cool swag and bragging rights. This month we have two Legacy GT's duking it out: wagon versus sedan.

Though the wagon took a commanding lead in the first few days of the contest (when subscribers first started receiving copies), it seems as though our newsstand readers have been pushing back with heavy votes for the sedan: as of this afternoon it's a dead-even 50:50 split. But we have almost a full month of voting to go! Who will win? Grab the new issue, turn to Page 15 and place your vote!

Welcome to the new site!

We wanted to give our readers more ways to access news and information about the Subaru universe. This is it: the all-new Subiesport.com!

You can now subscribe to our email update service, for daily roundups of posts on the site. If we don't post that day, you won't get an email, it's fast, easy and free. Prefer to get your dose of Subaru-goodness while on the go? Now you can subscribe to our RSS feed using your favorite news aggregator. We make the complete posts available through RSS: so load it up on your phone, your computer or whatever you use to get your feeds.

Lastly there's the blog itself. We can post news information from anywhere in the world, and have assigned a number of our top contributors with accounts to the blog. What that means is new, exciting and timely information you won't find anywhere else.

If you want to read features from Subiesport Magazine, we now offer a completely digital edition of our print issue. Visitors can preview up to 15 pages from inside each issue. Simply click here to get started. Subscribers to the old site have been given a 1-year subscription to our new digital edition. Emails were sent out with access information in the first week of March.

Looking for the old site? That will remain accessible from mag.subiesport.com. Let us know what you think