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estimate: $000 000 - $000 000
Fuji Heavy Industries was incorporated in 1953, being a combination
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of six engineering firms that had been part of the giant nakajima
aircraft firm, although a part of the dismantled aircraft firm already
carried the Fuji name in 1946. Its logo carries the six stars of the
Pleiades constellation, representing the six formative parts.
Fuji began making their S-1 scooter in 1946, six months before the
vespa, and they continued to make their technologically-advanced
Rabbit scooters until 1968. They introduced their first car, the Subaru
360, in 1958, in response to a Ministry of International Trade and
Industry mandate for a “People’s Car.”
It was the first “kei” class car with four wheels and room for four
people, and with its nickname being the “Ladybug,” it became one
of Japan’s most popular cars. Its partly recessed headlamps flanking
a vW-like lid gave it an appealing “face.” The car demonstrated a
technical sophistication rarely seen in a microcar at the time, such
as torsion bar trailing arm suspension, a unibody construction, and a
fiberglass roof. Doors were of the rear-hinged “suicide” type. It sold
well in Japan, being made until 1971, but it was less successful in the
U.S.a. in terms of sales.
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