Where do Subarus come from?
Has anybody ever broken one?
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First question: Japan. Second Question: I drove a late 80's Subaru air-cooled flat four when I was based in Cyprus and thrashed the thing mercilessly everywhere. Like the old Beetle max speed = cruising speed. In my case it never whimpered, let alone broke. if the later ones are as good, they must be good.
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some made in australia
some made in hungary i think
not all subarus r japan cars
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From Japan. Likely source is Japanese for slippery Seh-beh-ru. That or a it's a blokes name but the slippery thing ties in with 4 wheel drive. Never driven one let alone bent one but I expect lots of people will have
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I fully anticipate many people will have found that they are not the next WRC champion and have bent one, I am more interested in mechanical problems, especially in the less potent varients.
.... but then having your motor wrapped around a lampost could be argued to be a mechanical problem, allbiet unlikely to be covered under a warrenty :o)
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Blow the bottom end out of a Legacy some years back on the M1 ,new engine would have cost a fortune so we scrapped it mind you it was a dog .
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Subaru is the Japanese name for the star cluster we know as the "Pleiades" (also commonly known as the Seven Sisters). I'm assuming that this is what is depicted by the star logo on the company badge.
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The Suzuki based Justy all wheel drives were made in Hungary. A Texas bank managed 650,000 miles in a flat four DL. But Imprezas (not just turbos) have has a few piston problems. See car by car breakdown.
HJ
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yea and one of the estates is australian which is why paul hogan advertises them
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Sam seems a liitle familiar
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I have a mark 2 Justy Japanese built just gone past 100,000 miles no problems apart from needing a new clutch, a mate has a 150,000 L series flat four turbo still goes very well, a godfather has had them since the 1970s when they were first introduced here his last L series was replaced at 140,000 miles having had to spend very little on it all it needed was a brake overhaul, there are various websites that have high mileage Subarus on them 500,000 miles being common.
The only bad thing is that the early ones have a propensity to rust.
I'll definitely have another one.
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Another propensity of the marquee is very high fuel consumption especially in the larger cc engines.
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My Legacy 2.5 is 8 months old and 7500 miles. Solenoid failed (engaged) and starter motor burnt out. Still without car after 3 days, waiting parts. As Subaru "reliability" was a major reason for buying it, this has somewhat dented my confidence in it. Also dubious about what other damage may have been done, ie ring gear, electrics etc.
It averages 27.5mpg, which I think is O.K. for 2.5L awd. But of course that's use dependant.
Jack
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Subaru are made by Fuji Heavy Industries. They have factories in japan and the US, I belive that most UK cars come from the US factories despite the fact that the asia RHD cars for Oz,Japan
are made in Japanese factories. (Except for the Justy which is a Suzuki made in Hungary???)
My experience in Oz was of very high reliability and fairly good fuel consumption for a 2.5l awd (25mpg around town, 35 steady 60mph). In remote Queensland and NSW subarus outnumber most other cars, mostly Liberty/Legacy sicne the Impreza is mostly a town car there, the Forester is not so useful and the Justy is not sold in Oz.
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