Ninety-eight of a hundred Subaru are bought all-wheel drive worldwide: an even rougher ratio than Lexus has achieved in terms of hybrids. The brand’s (and also Japan’s) four-wheel-drive passenger car was the Subaru Leone 4WD station wagon, which hit the market in September 1972.
Since then, Subaru’s all-wheel drive technology, which has been honed in family cars, rally racing cars and recreational vehicles, has evolved a lot. The reputation was, of course, brought to the brand by the symmetrical AWD system resulting from the combination of the box engine and the four driven wheels, which resulted in a deep center of gravity as well as a balanced structure in terms of both static and moving masses.
Recently, Subaru has also been overtaken by electrification, with the hybrid e-Boxer drive chain complemented by an electric motor providing even more direct drive control on all four wheels. And soon, all-electric all-wheel drive models may come, next year, for example, the Solter, developed jointly with Toyota by the manufacturer.
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