Subaru
car maker Fuji Heavy Industries is to increase component sharing with General
Motors, which holds a 20 percent share of Fuji.

The Japanese company has just announced a profit fall of 30 percent and plans
to reduce its costs by sharing 10 percent of components with GM this year. The
proportion will gradually increase to 30 percent.

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Subaru’s unique horizontally-opposed (boxer) four and six cylinder engines
and all wheel drive systems won’t be shared though Fuji Heavy will take
a major role in developing four wheel drive technology for companies in the
GM group.

This latest co-operation between Fuji and GM follows earlier announcements
that GM’s Asia-Pacific region dealers will sell Subaru while its Thai plant
builds Opel-designed Zafira seven-seat minivans for sale by Subaru in Japan.





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