Subaru · SUBARU 1000
Subaru SUBARU 1000 SUBARU 1000 (A12/512/522)
- Years
- 1966–1969
- Chassis
- A12/512/522
- Drivetrain
- FF
Image: Mr.choppers / CC BY-SA 3.0
Story
Fuji Heavy Industries' first small car. Its basic structure was a front-wheel-drive layout with a longitudinally mounted horizontally opposed engine, and it achieved handling and ride that overturned the conventional wisdom about front-wheel-drive cars.
Chassis
- Curb weight
- 695kg
US import eligibility
- Earliest cars
- Eligible since May 199125 years after sales began in May 1966
- Last cars
- Eligible since 199425 years after sales ended in 1969 (month not recorded)
Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).
Engineers
Hometown: Shiojiri, Nagano
Head of design for the Subaru 360. After working on aircraft engines at Nakajima Aircraft, he led the Subaru 1500 design team, kept intact, in designing a kei passenger car.