Why “Subaru” is being discussed
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as a dev that presumably cares about the product i work on, I would look at every other car that somehow manages not to do this obnoxious useless thing, and argue till i'm blue…
by dalyons · Oct 22, 2026
just a data point: i have a 2026 Subaru Uncharted, awd EV, and it's superlative. For context, i had a 2014 BMW i3 for about 8 years, the design was neat, the engineering undepen…
by jjtheblunt · Oct 21, 2026
For reference, Subaru had "plans" to release an EV car back in 2005. Let's see if they finally follow through 24 years later. And their US market just happens to overlap with th…
by onlypassingthru · Oct 21, 2026
Yeah, people who care about their safety must not care about infotainment system, maybe that's what Subaru leaders think.
by mrheosuper · Oct 21, 2026
I wouldn't call it sustainable, but Subaru can persist for quite a while without an EV platform. Their main markets are the US (72%) and Japan (11%), neither of which have signi…
by jerlam · Oct 21, 2026
Subaru's EVs are not simply rebadged. They are based on Toyota designs and use Toyota software, but Subaru does more than rebadge them
by LoganDark · Oct 21, 2026
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Subaru is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Subaru Corporation, the twenty-first largest automaker by production worldwide in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia