Q 01/05

What does the word 'Subaru' mean in Japanese?

A) The Pleiades cluster

B) A swift horse

C) The rising sun

D) Mount Fuji's peak

Answer · why

A) The Pleiades cluster

The 'Seven Sisters' cluster gives the logo its six visible stars — tradition says one sister is invisible — and nods to the companies that merged to f...

Q 02/05

How many stars appear on the Subaru logo?

A) Six

B) Seven

C) Eight

D) Nine

Answer · why

A) Six

Six, for the visible sisters of the star cluster; the cluster's brightest star also gave the SVX coupe its Japanese name.

Q 03/05

What was Subaru's parent company called before it renamed itself Subaru Corporation?

A) Nakajima Heavy Industries

B) Fuji Heavy Industries

C) Gunma Heavy Industries

D) Fuji Sangyo Motors

Answer · why

B) Fuji Heavy Industries

FHI was formed between 1953 and 1955 from five of the twelve companies the post-war government had split the old aircraft maker into.

Q 04/05

Subaru's ancestor, founded in 1915 by Chikuhei Nakajima, was a major wartime supplier of what?

A) Warships

B) Army trucks

C) Warplanes

D) Field artillery

Answer · why

C) Warplanes

The Aircraft Research Laboratory became the Nakajima Aircraft Company; after the war it was broken up under anti-zaibatsu law and partly reassembled i...

Q 05/05

What was the Fuji Rabbit, built in 1946 from spare parts left over from the war?

A) A motorboat

B) A tractor

C) A microcar

D) A motor scooter

Answer · why

D) A motor scooter

The scooter kept the company alive after the war; a scooter maker, Fuji Kogyo, was one of the firms that later merged into the reorganized parent.