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Subaru actually means unite and it refers to the six stars on the logo representing 6 companies that are united under the FHI Group The largest star represents Fuji Heavy Industries The company started in 1917 in Japan as aeronautics research laboratory but soon moved production aircraft.
After World War II, the company has created a scooter, the Fuji Rabbit with spare parts of aircraft Soon, the company divided into different business that manufactured scooters, cars, engines and chassis then CEO Kenji Kita decided it would be a good idea to get involved in the automotive industry and soon the first Subaru car was created, the Subaru 1500 1954.
1500 or P1 was followed by 360 in 1958, Sambar in 1961, 1000, 1965, rule 1100 and R2 1969 During the 70s, Leone is out, then later, in the 80s, the Alcyclone 1985 and 1989 legacy were added to the Subaru range.
Slowly, in the 90s, the company moved away from the production of smaller vehicles and concentrated on rally cars like the Impreza Vivio and different versions of the Impreza WRX won the world championship several times in pilots such as Colin McRae.
With the technology of the aviation industry, Subaru employs many successful inventions in the automotive industry One of the first was the opposite we boxer engine horizontally, and the use of monocoque construction also, Subaru is the only car manufacturer to offer all-wheel drive as standard on most of its models the Japanese manufacturer was also the first to introduce electronic ECTV of continuously variable transmission that replaces the standard gear and allows smooth acceleration, while reducing emissions and fuel consumption.
Subaru also takes a keen interest in environmental protection, after reaching a discharge state of the strange 0 records for their plant in Lafayette, Indiana which means that the plant generates no trash In addition, the company has an extensive recycling program for its own cars, not to mention the program for hybrid cars and fuel.
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