SUBARU is celebrating the landmark of building its 15 millionth all-wheel-drive vehicle, 44 years after its first 4x4 rolled off the production line, writes William Scholes.
Since then, the Japanese brand has become synonymous with four-wheel-drive and pairing the transmission with its 'boxer' configuration engines.
It's an uncommonly pure engineering approach which yields stability and a low centre of gravity, to the benefit of safety and driver enjoyment; Subaru calls the unusual layout 'symmetrical all-wheel-drive'.
Last year, 98 per cent of all Subaru models sold were four-wheel-drive - the rear-drive-only BRZ sports car being the outlier.
Meanwhile, Subaru has release a teaser shot of its new Impreza model, which will debut at the New York motor show next week.
The company promises a completely new design inside and out, the latest technology and, of course, four-wheel-drive.
