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[edit] Pronunciation

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In New Zealand, it is pronounced "Su-BAR-roo", rather than "Su-ba-ROO" or the North American "SOO-ba-roo".

Is there anyone who can shed some light on the Japanese pronunciation? It's probably relevant to post these deltails as footnotes somewhere within the page.

As far as I know Japanese doesn't have a fixed stress. So all of them would be as right (or as wrong).--Error 01:58, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As I understand it, Japanese has equal emphasis, & very short vowels, so it should be (roughly) "suh ba ruh".
On another note, anybody think we should mention Mal Bricklin for intro Sube to U.S. market? Trekphiler 16:35, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australia

The article needs something about Subaru and Australia, because for some reason a lot of people seem to think that Subaru is based in Australia RadioYeti 02:16, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

In the southwestern US, I've never encountered this. In any event, isn't the statement, Subaru, a Japanese car company,... enough? You can't really get any more obvious than the first sentence in the article. --Milkmandan 03:03, 2005 Feb 28 (UTC)
It's because of the Crocodile Dundee commercials and the "Outback". I don't think it's necessary to point out their mistake. Doesn't seem very wikipedia. Krymson

[edit] Affiliate?

The articale says that Subaru is "an affiliate of Toyota Motor Corporation". Is the word affiliate appropriate here? Bugur 09:10, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this all there is?

Just dropped in, surprised how little there is here, the AMC page is like much bigger. Threw in some details of the Subaru impact in the USA, and the Pacific NW where I live.--Wiarthurhu 20:27, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Forwaded this link to NASIOC for some more data miners. Ianliam 13:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Model In Japan and subaru to drop the "propeller Grill"

i wondered whuynobody has updated about the the new subaru stella( http://www.autoblog.com/2006/06/15/subaru-stella-has-japanese-housewives-and-moms-in-mind/ ) and updated that subaru is droping the "propeller"grill in 2008 (http://www.autoblog.com/2006/08/28/subaru-to-pull-a-jackson-and-undergo-another-nose-job/ } 2:14 Eastern time september 12 2006

Go for it. -- BillWeiss | Talk 03:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] added diesel info

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=118936 68.224.14.81 04:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

The diesel section says the engine "will be introduced at the March 2007 Geneva Motor Show". That was 3 months ago. There is now quite a bit more info about it. Someone who knows diesel engines should update this section. -Athaler 16:17, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted reference to book

Not sure where to put. I'll let the experts decide. Just don't relink it to Amazon. Here's what I removed sans link. Nposs 07:15, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

  • The book Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign] covers most of Subaru's history, up through the mid-90's launch of the SVX.

[edit] Cultural References

How would people feel about reducing this section? It's growing rather long without any way to limit it. It could be reduced to a few sentences. -- BillWeiss | Talk 17:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Cultural references for all wikipedia articles are just becoming Trivia sections. 70.41.230.90 22:28, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I've added a comment line requesting that people do not add to the section. I'll delete all the references of the sort "Bill Bloogs mentioned Subaru in his song Ma Dawg Has Died". Paul Fisher 02:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Since no one defended it, I just cut the section. It only had marginal relevance to the article. -- BillWeiss | Talk 19:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I just deleted the sentence in the history section referencing the demise of the Audi Allroad, as it is still made today. The writer said it met its demise in the "2000s" but it has been produced since 1999 to today. Corey L 11:00, 12 Dec. 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.200.128.45 (talk) 16:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About

Do you know, I call a Subaru car sale in Lilydale, Subaru City. Subaru City is where all the Subarus live. --Blake3522 07:50, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

The timeline at the bottom of the Subaru page needs to be corrected as the second generation legacy was in production from 1995-1999. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.213.198 (talk) 01:11, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Subaru Logo.svg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] rallying and "import scene"

The line "just like VW/Audi did years before" - is it really necessary? Not only is it mentioning VW/Audi for no reason (they have a totally different AWD system, and it isn't the same kind of import scene), but the reference URL it cites is dead. Did VW/Audi even have any type of AWD system before Subaru did? And if they did, is it worth mentioning VW/Audi? Should this article mention every manufacturer that did something before Subaru did it?

Update: The Quattro was used as a rally car in the 1980s

However, this "Scene" that is referred to isn't easily verifiable... it just seems a VW fan threw that line in there to one-up Subaru owners

[edit] timeline is not in sequence

not the actual graphical timeline of models, but the explanation throughout the article -- the series of events are way out of order. for example the article talks of the redesigned 2002 Impreza WRX, but then goes back to 1995 to talk about the Sambar EV in the same paragraph. Not only is it off topic, it's out of sequence. Can someone with a lot of time clean this up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.208.187.208 (talk) 16:11, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I had some time and reorganized this article so that it has a better sense of chronology. (Dddike (talk) 14:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Origins of Subaru

I don't think Nakajima was the main manufacturer of aircraft in Japan during WW2. For the Zero, Mitsubushi made the aircraft and Nakajima made the engines.

One of Nakajima's last research centres to be developed was at Musashi-Sakai, then outside Tokyo proper. (They also had factories in occupied China.) After the war, as stated in the article, it was under American governance that Nakajima was was broken up into various component parts.

The Musashi-Sakai campus was sold to what would become ICU (International Christian University), a pioneering institute of Higher Education, which would become famous for its liberal arts curriculum. The research centre still provides the main teaching building. Also, part of the campus was retained for manufacturing, and now is part of Subaru. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Postrestant6691 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Subaru 1960

‘I find all the discussion about an excellent car very informative. I was an importer of Subaru in 1966/73 then it was a 1300 cc. front wheel drive, very reliable and won every rally we entered. I imported through Nichiman & Co. in Zambia, still have a scrap book. First class product. George Beckman. Cape Town165.145.255.172 (talk) 09:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)