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Subaru Japanese pronunciation could be the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Subaru Corporation (formerly referred to as Fuji Heavy Industries), the twenty-second largest automaker by production worldwide in 2012.Subaru cars are known for their utilization of a boxer engine layout for most vehicles above 1500 cc. The Symmetrical All Wheel Drive drive-train layout has been around since 1972. The flat/boxer engine and all-wheel-drive became standard equipment for mid-size and smaller cars generally in most international markets by 1996, and is particularly now standard in the majority of North American market Subaru vehicles. The lone exception may be the BRZ, introduced in 2012 by using a partnership with Toyota, which uses the boxer engine instead uses a rear-wheel-drive structure. Subaru even offers turbocharged versions with their passenger cars, like the Impreza WRX and also the Legacy GT.In Western markets, the Subaru brand has traditionally been loved by a dedicated core of buyers. Marketing is targeted towards specific niches aimed at those who desire the business's signature drive train engine, all-wheel/rough-road capabilities or affordable sports vehicle markets.Subaru would be the Japanese term for the Pleiades star cluster M45, and the "Seven Sisters" (certainly one of whom tradition says is invisible – hence only six stars from the Subaru logo), which often inspires the emblem and alludes towards the companies that merged to build FHI.Subaru Impreza WRCSubaru Rally Team Japan led by Noriyuki Koseki (founder of Subaru Tecnica International, STI) ran Subaru Leone coupé, sedan DL, RX (SRX) and RX Turbo within the World Rally Championship between 1980 and 1989. Drivers for individual rallies included Ari Vatanen, Per Eklund, Shekhar Mehta, Mike Kirkland, Possum Bourne and Harald Demut. Mike Kirkland finished 6th overall and won the A Group on the 1986 Safari Rally. That year Subaru was among the only manufacturers combining 4WD and turbo after Audi's successful quattro system was introduced in 1980, but Audi withdrew from your WRC after safety concerns and Ford's serious accident early within the 1986 season. Subaru changed the rally model to Legacy RS with the 1990–1992 period and took part within the first complete season within the World Rally Championship with the exact same model in 1993.Modified versions on the Impreza WRX and WRX STi are actually competing successfully in rallying. Drivers Colin McRae (1995), Richard Burns (2001) and Petter Solberg (2003) have won World Rally Championship drivers' titles while using Subaru World Rally Team and Subaru took the manufacturers' title 36 months in a row from 1995 to 1997. Subaru's World Rally Championship cars have decided and run by Prodrive, the highly successful British motorsport team. Several endurance records were set within the early and mid-nineties with the Subaru Legacy. The Subaru Justy also supports the world record for your fastest sub 1.0L car and not using a turbo: 123.224 mph average, it was from 1989.Subaru was briefly included in Formula One circuit racing if it bought a controlling interest within the tiny Italian Coloni team for your 1990 season. The Coloni 3B's 12-cylinder engine was badged as being a Subaru and shared the boxer layout with the business's own engines, but was a pre-existing design built by Italian firm Motori Moderni. The cars were overweight and underpowered and also the partnership eliminate before the season finished. With the rise of rally racing plus the Import scene within the US, the introduction in the highly anticipated Subaru Impreza WRX in 2001 was successful in bringing high-performance AWD compact cars into the fancy car mainstream. Subaru offers a factory-backed team, Subaru Rally Team USA for Rally America and it has won the driver's title six times, not too long ago in 2011 with David Higgins. Grassroots Motorsports awarded Subaru using the Editors' Choice Award in 2002.

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