For the past five months or so, Ford has been steadily releasing web episodes of its ST Session series featuring the new 250-horsepower Focus ST hatch and a number of direct rivals like the VW Golf GTi and Honda Civic Si, while even placing it against the much more expensive and powerful BMW M3 Coupe.

The time has come for the fifth and last episode of the series, named "Control Battle", which sees the Focus ST in the hands of professional rally driver Chrissie Beavis challenging her colleague Matthew Johnson in a Subaru WRX.

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Black patches of ice on the road are a driver's worst enemy as there's really nothing you can do once it creeps under your tires. Not even ABS or an advanced four-wheel drive system can save you, though; these features will indeed help you lessen the risks of getting into deeper trouble than what you are already in.

A Japanese driver of what looks like a Subaru WRX/STi was confronted with a situation like this right after coming out of a curve on a mountain road, and to make matters worse, a small truck had just crashed into the side rails and was blocking the road in front.

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Here comes the 2014 Subaru Forester, and this time, it's official as the Japanese carmaker released the first photos and details simultaneously in North America and its home market of Japan.

This is the fourth generation of the Forester since the model's debut in 1997 and as we've seen from previous pictures of the car, it doesn't stray too far away from the design of the current model. In fact, we wouldn't be surprised if an untrained eye had a hard time telling the two apart…

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The same owner of the stick shift 2013 Subaru BRZ Limited who was able to take the Japanese firm's boxer-powered sports coupe up to a top speed of 147mph or 237km/h (on the speedometer) after completing the 1,000 mile (1,600 km) break-in period back in July is back with another video.

The man who runs the 'Jason Thorgalsen Photography' (JTP) channel on YouTube took the BRZ for another test run and managed to improve his max speed by 4mph or 6km/h to 151mph or 243km/h, again on the speedometer, though he does mention in the video that he "GPS Verified" the speed at 152mph or 244.6 km/h.

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