Fuji Heavy Industries expects to hit a domestic production record of more than 620,000 Subaru vehicles in fiscal 2013, led by exports of SUVs to the US.

It plans to produce around 310,000 vehicles in Japan in the first six months of FY2013 and has seen sales in the US rise almost 25% year on year in January-June this year to a record 204,597 units, led by brisk sales of the Forester.

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Around half the cars the company sells in the US are shipped from Japan and exports there are likely to continue pushing domestic production higher in the second half of the fiscal year.

Fuji Heavy is increasing production at its Gunma plant, which assembles the Impreza, to 180,000 vehicles a year from 165,000. It is also ramping up production of the XV hybrid released last month.

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