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People's Choice Best Performance Car under A$100,000 by Carsales (shared with Subaru BRZ). [163] Other awards received include: 2012 Car of the Year in New Zealand (Toyota 86 and GT86); [164] 2012 Best Affordable Sports Car by US News (Scion FR-S); [165] 2012 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick in the US (Scion FR-S and ...
Subaru Rioma (1991) Subaru Jusmin (1993) Subaru Sagres (1993) Subaru Suiren (1993, concept replacement for the BRAT/Brumby) Subaru Alpha-Exiga (1995) Subaru Elcapa (1995) Subaru Streega (1995, entered production as the Forester) Subaru Exiga (1996, wagon) [1] Subaru Elten (1997) Subaru Elten Custom (1999) Subaru Fleet-X (1999) Subaru ST-X (2000 ...
Subaru's facilities designated to automotive manufacturing are located in Ōta, Gunma Prefecture, consisting of four locations: Subaru-chō is where the Subaru BRZ/Toyota 86 is built; having been re-purposed from kei car production, Yajima Plant is where all current Subaru cars are built; Otakita Plant is where commercial kei trucks are built ...
Powering the car, that Subaru now says is 50% stiffer, is an updated 2.4-liter naturally aspirated engine "boxer" 4-cylinder engine, with 228 hp (over 20 more hp than before) and 184 lb-ft of ...
The Shift Indicator reads P-R-N-D-Ds, Ds stands for Drive Sport, which doubles engine RPM. The CVT transmission proved unreliable after accumulating high mileage, causing Subaru to stop exporting cars with CVTs outside of Japan until the fifth generation Legacy/Outback. Subaru did continue to build Kei cars with CVTs, only for sale in Japan. In ...
The Subaru EN inline-four engine was introduced in 1988 to replace the straight-two EK series engine that was originally engineered as an air-cooled engine, then modified as a water-cooled engine used in the 1969–1972 Subaru R-2. The EN was used in all kei cars and kei trucks in production by Subaru up until 2012.
The AE86 would go on to inspire the Toyota 86 (2012–present), [13] a 2+2 sports car jointly developed by Toyota and Subaru, manufactured by Subaru—and marketed also as the Toyota GT86, Toyota GR86, Toyota FT86, Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ.
The second-generation Subaru BRZ/Toyota GR86, jointly developed with Toyota, uses neither the SGP nor the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform, but the "knowledge and techniques" gained from the development of SGP were credited with increasing chassis rigidity and stiffness for the new BRZ. [26]