Makes / Subaru

Subaru Logo Subaru is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportationconglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI). Subaru is internationally known for their use of the boxer engine layout in most of their vehicles above 1500 cc as well as their use of the all wheel drive drive-train layout since 1972, with it becoming standard equipment for mid-size and smaller cars in most international markets as of 1996, and now standard in all North American market Subaru vehicles. The lone exception is theBRZ introduced in 2012, utilizing RWD. They also offer many turbocharged versions of their passenger cars, such as the Impreza WRX. Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent company of Subaru, is currently in a partial partnership withToyota Motor Corporation, which owns 16.5% of FHI