To be fair to Subaru they were making 4wd Wagons since 1970
In 1970, a Subaru dealership received a special order request from the Tohoku Electric Power Company for Subaru to build an all weather vehicle with 4WD. The company was using Jeeps at the time. They were open to the weather, could not seal out the cold…

Note also Jesses Tercel 4wd Wagon that was the proto Aztec from 1983

I’ve studied design and practiced it for a long time. You are wrong. We are talking about cars here and brands like Volvo have a large amount of repeat buyers who even subconsciously would recognised the font which with slab serifs represent safety and solidity (why would they want to represent that?) . How many car…

Former Graphic Designer here.
Looks like it was phoned in by two different teams, Icon team - I think the Arrow is a little thick in relation to the circle. Font Team, I’m glad you kept the slab serif font (Volvo Broad font?). As I’ve always liked its strength. but this lighter version is a little to spaced for me. I”m…

Or a great spot for a porta potty for when you didn’t pack enough astronaut diapers on your roadtrip https://people.com/crime/astronaut-love-triangle-lisa-nowak-life-10-years-later/

https://www.google.com/maps/place/George+St+%26+Rose+St,+Fitzroy+VIC+3065/@-37.7963446,144.9827044,3a,75y,209.88h,75.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4v3DAWVts9titeoTasNVAg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ad64321f1ded509:0xfa5d6bfb6383a5d4!8m2!3d-37.7963135!4d144.9822876 I might have been red once upon a time

But we aren’t talking about FCA are we. VWs that work great out of warranty (I’ve had one out of three) are the anomaly here. FCA doesn’t market itself as being technically superior like the Germans try and BTW - you are trying to pen the whole of FCA reliability on a junior engineer?

Quite popular in Australia for a while only remember them in silver. The other popular model was the Jumbuk Ute.

I remember seeing very few Japanese cars in the south of Europe when I travelled a lot in the early 2000's and even fewer each time I have gone back since. Except quite a few Subarus in the swiss /italian alps.

Yeah I don’t think they were awful for the time. compared to the Holdens and Fords that everyone was driving then just smoky. Mitsu were still using the Astron in 1989 for the Magna But by then Toyota started making the Camry V20 here and just made everything else look minor league.

I’ve missed these roving car spotting reports in new cities. Got to say the Shibuya area of Tokyo always suprises.

most Architects I know can only afford “A” bicycle

Is there a US army base nearby? personal import?

NP.
Someone out there wants the most prestine Saporro (or scorpion down under) in all the land. This is for them. Not for us mere mortals.

Here in Australia my family all worked at the Mitsubishi plant (ex chrysler and produced Mits Galant and chrysler Valiants at the same time!) and I remember the 2.6litre Astron with its ‘balance shaft technology licenced to Porsche” in the advertising of the day. These motors usually got bad rings and died early…

The image on the click through could be for a new Sandi-Noir tv series.

Even the VW Golf is back to a torsion beam in the non GTi models. Its fine for most.

I have one of those and it is an incredibly reliable faithful car.

They have one of those in the Europe called Corolla Trek.  Tie in with the bike manufacturer.