Coverage status · public research debt
Partial does not mean poor. It means the section has useful work and named gaps. No section is labeled complete.
Traces Nakajima Aircraft → Fuji Sangyo → Fuji Heavy Industries (1953) → Subaru Corporation (2017), plus the Nissan (1968–1999), GM (1999–2005), and Toyota (2005–present) minority-stake eras. Open: the 1953 merger's exact company count doesn't cleanly match the six-star logo explanation, and the Nissan-to-GM stake-transfer mechanism is unresolved between two conflicting accounts.
Covers the EA/EJ/FA/FB boxer-engine lineage, Symmetrical AWD's 1972 origin, and EyeSight's Japan-2008-vs-US-2013 introduction gap. The EJ25 head-gasket claims are flagged provisional pending a stronger source than repair-trade blogs; EA-family history and the 1972 AWD system's engineering originator remain unresearched.
Deepened in a second pass with Ryuichiro Kuze, Malcolm Bricklin, and Harvey Lamm, plus a resolved 'two Tomomi Nakamuras' question and a filled SOA/Subaru Corp executive succession chain. Open: no engineer or executive has been identified for the AWD program's actual origin, and portraits are missing for most named figures.
Covers the Subaru 360 (including the Bricklin US import and its Consumer Reports 'Not Acceptable' controversy), plus the R-2, Rex, Sambar, Vivio, and Pleo. Open: the original April 1969 Consumer Reports text has never been directly opened — the controversy rests entirely on secondary retellings.
Covers Leone generations, US GL/DL/Loyale naming, and the Justy/CVT history, preserving the 1972 'first mass-production AWD' claim as disputed rather than resolved (Subaru's own 'Japan's first' framing vs. looser 'world's first' retellings). Open: whether any actual US-market Justy order combined AWD and CVT together.
Covers the XT/Alcyone and SVX, including the Giugiaro-designed window-in-window doors and the EG33 flat-6 as an outlier from Subaru's usual boxer-4 norm. Open: the widely-repeated per-unit-loss commercial-failure figure has no traced primary source.
Covers the Baja, B9 Tribeca/Tribeca (including the shark-nose redesign story), and Ascent. Open: the 2014–2018 three-row gap between Tribeca and Ascent, and an unattributed 'irredeemably gruesome beast' review quote that still needs a traced source.
All generations tabled, including STI's founding car (the Legacy RS-RA) and the Australian 'Liberty' naming/charity-conflict story. The 1989 endurance record is corrected to Arizona (not Bonneville), but its driver-rotation details remain disputed between two sources.
All generations (GC8 through GU/current) drafted, including the JDM-vs-US introduction gaps for both WRX (1992 vs. 2002) and STI (1994 vs. 2004) and JDM-only limited editions. Open: no sourced corporate rationale exists yet for the decade-long US wait, and sixth-generation coverage is thin.
Covers the 22B STI (424 units, with a preserved export-breakdown dispute), two 2023 auction records, UK-exclusive P1/WR1/CS400, the Canada-exclusive Spec R1, the Legacy S402, and marque-wide concept/prototype history. Open: whether two 2023 22B-prototype auction sources describe the same sale or two genuinely different chassis.
All six generations (SF–SL) drafted, including the JDM-only Forester STi and an Australia-only tS special edition. Open: the exact SJ-generation turbo power-year boundary and the tS production count.
All three generations (GP/GT/GU) and three distinct hybrid architectures drafted. Open: an exhaustive market-by-market XV-naming list before the 2022 global 'Crosstrek' unification is still incomplete.
Covers the joint-development story with Toyota, the market badge table (BRZ/86/GT86/FR-S/GR86), and Solterra launch reception, including a disputed DC-charging-rate spec (100kW vs. 150kW). Open: an Australian BRZ tS dealer photo doesn't fit either documented tS production window.
Covers the Subaru World Rally Team (555/Prodrive era), McRae/Sainz/Burns/Solberg, the 2008 WRC withdrawal, Subaru Rally Team USA/rallycross, and Nürburgring lap-record attempts. Open: the exact Type RA NBR Special record date is unpinned, and the 555-to-Repsol livery transition year is inferred rather than directly sourced.
Covers the EJ25 head-gasket issue, the Subaru 360's Consumer Reports controversy, and the 2008 WRC withdrawal's contested full causal picture (Subaru's stated financial-crisis reasoning vs. outside speculation about costly incoming 2010 rules). Open: no forum-sourced disputed claim has been mined into this section yet.
Characterizes NASIOC, IWSTI, RS25.com, LegacyGT.com, and the leading Forester- and Crosstrek/XV-specific forums from their own self-descriptions. Open: this pass characterized what the forums cover, not specific mined member claims; the LegacyGT.com/.org/LegacyCentral disambiguation is unresolved, and no JDM-specific or BRZ/86-specific community has been confirmed yet.
Drafts the standardized 17-character modern US VIN structure and Impreza/Legacy chassis-code conventions. Open: pre-1981 and kei-car-specific (JDM) identification conventions are entirely unresearched, and several chassis-code generation boundaries remain acknowledged ambiguities.
Covers the Rebelle Rally sponsorship (privateer 2021–2022, factory teams from 2024), the Crosstrek Desert Racer SCORE/Baja program (2016–2019), a 2010 Dakar entry, overlanding/conservation partnerships, and one well-sourced notable-owner story. Negative findings are recorded explicitly, including no evidence of Subaru at King of the Hammers and no confirmed 2020s factory desert-racing program.
75 images approved across the marque as of the second research wave, filling previously-missing generations and adding verified portraits for Bricklin and Momose. Open: VIN/ID-plate image coverage remains at zero corpus-wide, and about a third of approved images still need a blur/crop privacy pass before any public use.