Subaru's first US model was a disaster
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- In honor of Subaru of America's 50th anniversary, we look back at the company's first model, the Subaru 360. The tiny 360 was so "cheap and ugly" that Subaru literally marketed that way.
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I own 8 of these. Love em. I drive one to work on good weather fridays. I've restored it over the past 5 years. It still needs painted but It's a solid little car. 4 of my 8 360s will see the road again. The others were bought for parts needed to restore 4. I've had a 68 VW and yes they are a little more confidence inspiring, but no more over powered than the 360. Hippie is my next closest to finish restoration project, was restored in the early 80s and driven to HS and 4 years of college. 48k miles is on the odometer. It was the previous owners first car. Still runs but needs some body repair and brake work. I drive it in the yard to keep it lubed up. The other two are very rare 360s one dune buggy and one " Yacht car" or "Jolly". It's one of 24 or 30 made. It needs some mechanical work but then will be driveable. The dune buggy actually was pre importation and was a joint venture between an indy car driver and Penny's department store. It was a project that was abandoned in the late 60's. Penny's wanted to get a piece of the dune buggy craze of the southwest but settled for a more go cart proposal with a brigs and straten motor. I also have modern Subarus. The difference between the 360 and the flagship STI I've driven for 174k miles is indescribable but the little 360 mechanicals aren't as shoddy as consumer reports led people to believe. I know one man who has driven a Subaru 360 van since the 1970 till just a couple years ago. Find one their a great project. A blast from the past.
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Great cars, my first car in 1976 was a 1970 360 Young, wish I still had it, this guy doesn't know what he is talking about, his opinion is shit
It's literally a death trap.
Imagine the oposite history...japan nuclear bombed usa...what would detroit be producing in the 50s and early 60s??? ....so show more respect to the birth of a great maker...where is detroit now?
Unsuitable for the United States. But in the urban congestion of Tokyo in 1969 it would've been perfect.
And it was, that car was a huge success in japan and it's the origin of the kei cars category.
I was going to write something similar but you have wait it al.
CNN can never say anything nice can they? My dad had one of these cars and he said it was awesome. He still wishes he had it.
Ironically the 360 is very much a collectors car now and an expensive one at that
why bash this beautiful car. i have always loved it and if i could get my hands on one id treasure it with my life. (if anyone knows where one is hmu)
I learned to drive in my dads 360, about 10 years ago, at the age of 12... Terrible as it may be, there’s not many cars that get as much attention in a high school parking lot!
I loved mine ..... 4 speed ... rack and pinion steering ... just fun to drive
Interesting car and review 👍🏿😊
So funny!! "About as close as I've ever seen Consumer Reports come to cursing." Lol!
As an old subaru fan i want manual gearbox and frameless windows.
Subaru should reissue some old epic models.
Die hard subaru fans are hating the new models and are buying used old models..that says a lot..come on subaru wake up!!.
If you have one, you could probably trade it for a Corvette.
How can nobody talk about the 16 hp version?
I wonder if it was as bad as the 1949 English Ford my dad bought for me in 1959. It may have had an air cleaner when it was new but that was long gone. No heater. Crank out windshield. 3-on-the-floor - no syncro in first. Wood floorboards. Cotton cord tires. "Knee action" shock absorbers (that didn't seem to have any effect at all). Suicide rear doors. Vacuum wipers that never worked except while I was slowing down (and even then not if I was going uphill). Mechanical brakes - cable operated - which I had reason to believe never operated more than one wheel brake at a time. Directional signals were flip-out type in the B pillar. Fortunately, the one that didn't work was on the right-hand side. It had an electric starter but I don't remember whether the car ever started using the starter after Dad bought it. So I used the crank until I got so tired of doing that. Then I learned to always park it where I could use gravity to start it rolling and then pop the clutch to start the engine. We lived in Boulder, Colorado when Dad bought the English Ford but, a year later, we moved "out in the country" nine miles northeast of boulder. I didn't know any better than to try to drive it the speed limit - 60 mph - so it didn't last very long after we moved.
日本が最貧国から復興し、ようやく４輪車が夢から現実になってきた時代の愛すべき国民車だったと思います。最近ではまず見ることはありませんが、いい思い出を持っている人が多いと思います。そんなに貶めなくてもという気がします。
The only words we associate Subaru with are rust and cracked heads😂
Come on it is a little car.
Thanks for not telling me the price
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But it wasn't a disaster...
yanks were just way too rich for it.
That's ugly. Great review
Better than a BMW Isetta.
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Plenty of shitbox American cars back then as well
Dont want to hit something big
ah yes! so terrible they'd beat the shit out of american mediocre manufacturers 10 years later lol
Der Vergleich mit dem Volkswagen ist unpassend. Der Volkswagen ist ein vollwertiges Auto, der Subaru 360 ist eine Gehhilfe.
There's some sort of genius of publicity at work here. I've been hearing and reading about that first Subaru sold in California for years now. Over and over and over. 57 miles an hour. Rusted even in California. Utter failure.
I guess it's the Donald Trump rule: all publicity is good publicity.
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Woow good
looks like a toy 😍
恐るべしSUBARU360!
these cars weren't made for the US market, in Japan they were great cars, but not for the US