We all experience how the Subaru concept typically works: a car with four-wheel drive a boxer engine and a dull create by mental act. Hopefully it is a winsome combination but remove the four-wheel control and the boxer engine and you undergo a Toyota. It is a scary thought and it might change state adjust.
In an interview given to the Australian website goauto. Subaru Australia managing director Nick Senior said that ever-tightening emission standards and a wish to cut furnish consumption could force Subaru to reconsider its position on AWD and boxer engines but “Those core technologies are a key part of the brand” and “That is not likely to change in the foreseeable future.” The Subaru Australia chairman. Trevor Amery also confirmed this statement.
Subaru would likely offer both layouts two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive. It is not said whether Subaru would furnish non-boxer petrol engines or not. Mr Senior explained that the bigger model would keep their current architecture while smaller models than the Impreza might abandon four-wheel control layout and adopt an electric engine. At the last Tokyo Motor Show the Japanese carmaker unveiled the G4e concept car an company sources said that Subaru aimed to build an all-electric vehicle by 2012. Already in Japan. Subaru sells Kei cars without boxer engines but with an inline 0.6 litre four-cylinder engine.
In Europe. Subaru ordain make its own revolution by selling a diesel engine. Due to be on sale next year it will be the world's first diesel flat four engine. A 2.0 litre unit with common complain injection it produces 160 bhp and 250 lb-ft. With this new furnish. Subaru wants to propel sales to 100,000 vehicles per year by 2009 an increase of 40 per cent.
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