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Winter, Meet New England

Well...  everyone knew it was comming

 ...and its finally here

We at Bertera Motorsport would like to welcome Winter to New England.

We would also like to remind Winter, on behalf of Subaru Customers everywhere, that it is here on our terms!

So get your ski racks on and snow tires ordered people.  It looks like its going to be another wild ride!

 

 

 

Last Updated (Tuesday, 22 December 2009 15:02)

 

Got Air?

 

The folks at Car and Driver have a cool write up in their November issue :

How to Throw a Subaru Impreza WRX STI into the Atmosphere
The physics behind rally driver Ken Block’s jumps.

The write up looks into the evolution of car jumping and the adaptation of the same basic physics formulas used to plot the trajectory of cannon balls, arrows, and more recently, snowboarders.

Dropping the Science looks like this:

Where:
Vt is velocity of the “projectile” leaving the ramp in ft/sec
Vv is the vertical component of this velocity (Vv = sin A (Vt))
Vh is the horizontal velocity (Vh = cos A (Vt))
A is the jump angle
X is horizontal distance traveled
Y is vertical distance
G is the good ol gravitational constant of 32.17 feet per second second²

Now we fully recommend you try this at home.  Send your questions and emails to Ken Block...

 See the full spread online here...

 

Last Updated (Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:51)

 

Spy Video of the 2011 Impreza Coupe!!!

Ok kiddies.  For those of you who haven't heard, Subaru is redesigning the Impreza and WRX for 2011 and yes, the coupe is back.

 

The platform is being co-developed by Toyota and you can find photos of their consept car version floating around the web.  What's important is that our version is to be all Subaru with an in house boxer 4.  There is some talk of a RWD model in addition to our standard symetrical all-wheel drive.  Now for the juicy bits...

The good peoples at ft86club dugg up this spy video of the new Scooby, heavily disguised, tooling around the Nurburgring!  Man we wish we were these guys right about now.

 

 

Last Updated (Friday, 23 October 2009 16:38)

 

B4 Legacy Super GT at Tokyo Autoshow

 

Jalopnik ran a nice little piece on the B4 GT car based (loosely) on the new 2010 Legacy. 

Basically its 15.5 feet long, 6.25 feet wide, and 3.9 feet tall.
It's powered by a 2.0l 4cyl DOHC turbo similar to what is found our WRC offerings.
Like the WRC Subaru it uses a propane jet to spool the turbo off boost (comming soon to our parts dept)!
The transmission is a 6 speed sequential, the suspension is double wish-bone and AWD is standard.

See the full spred at Jalopnik.com

...and here's a few minutes of this monster in the flesh.  No you can not come in for a test drive.

Last Updated (Friday, 23 October 2009 17:02)