Fuji Rabbit

The Fuji Rabbit was a motor scooter produced in Japan by Fuji Heavy Industries, now Subaru Corporation, from 1946 through 1968. The first model, the S-1, went into production in 1946 about six months before the Vespa, was inspired by scooters used by American servicemen after the war, and as the first motor scooter made in Japan it revolutionised the postwar vehicle industry. Later Rabbits gained electric starters, automatic transmissions and pneumatic suspension and were the first Japanese scooters to exceed 60 miles per hour, competing with the Mitsubishi Silver Pigeon and, from 1954, the Honda Juno. The last Fuji scooter left the line in June 1968, ten years after the company moved into cars with the Subaru 360.