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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
[edit] added diesel info
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=118936 68.224.14.81 04:38, 25 December 2006 (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.
