Subaru (Within katakana: スバル), a Japanese car company, is a subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries. General Motors was a 20% minority shareowner of Fuji Impenetrable from either 1999 until 2005 when they sold Eight.7% to Toyota and put the rest on the open market.

Prior to that, a stake owned by Gramme was owned by Nissan, who acquired a stake as much as a mid-1980's sequentially to use FHI's bus manufacturing capability. Successively, numerous Subaru vehicles, possibly now, utilise area from either a Nissan manufacturing keiretsu. within point of fact, it was Subaru that introduced Renault to Nissan while it asked for assistance in AWD technology, once FHI told Renault to discuss their plans by having Nissan, a discussions finally led to the successful Renault-Nissan alliance.

"Subaru" is the Japanese word for the star cluster Pleiades that is depicted in the company logo. A Pleiades (likewise referred to as a 7 Sisters) has seven stars, a logotype's vi stars represent a 5 corporations that close when WW2 to form of these big company. When an self-propelling phoxinus phoxinus in comparison several of its contender, Subaru has been the extremely profitable company for several years. These are noted for the production of conventional-bodied cars using good-whale all wheel drive (inside fact, in numbers of markets its entire product range has this feature) & its utilise of the horizontally-opposed boxer engine (flat engine).

Subaru's right-known vehicles come high performance turbocharged versions of its Legacy (known as Liberty around Australia), and Impreza, which offer outstanding performance & treating at comparatively low-priced numbers. Limited versions of the Impreza WRX and WRX STi have been competing successfully inside car rallies and the World Rally Championship for many years. Many endurance records were placed in the early & mid-nineties per Legacy.

Recently GM has developed a Saab 9-2X model, based on a Subaru Impreza WRX, and a approaching Saab 9-6X model, based on a Subaru B9 Tribeca.

When of October 5, 2005. Toyota stated that it will choose Ogdoad.7% of the shares of Fuji Heavily Industries from either General Motors, and in time, Gramme announced that it might sever everthing ties by owning Fuji Big Industries, a parent company of Subaru.

FHI has too stated that there use been 27 million shares (worth Threesome.4% of its commodity) acquired prior to a begin of stock trading by an unknown persin on October 6. These are speculated that the bank or even maybe a second car manufacturer was behind it. [http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2005-10-06T054610Z_01_T177494_RTRIDST_0_AUTOS-FUJIHEAVY-BUYBACK.XML]

Present models
Baja B9 Tribeca Forester (a crossover SUV) Impreza Impreza WRX Subaru Impreza WRX STi Legacy Outback Pleo (a Keicar) R1 (a Keicar) R2 (a Keicar) Sambar (a Keicar) Traviq (a rebadged Opel Zafira Minivan)

Past models
360 FF-1 Star FF-1 G 1400 DL/GL 1600 Leone 1800 Alcyone (also known as a XT, XT6, & Vortex) Alcyone SVX (also known as a SVX) BRAT Justy Leone GL/DL/Loyale Rex Vivio