The Subaru 1500, development code name P-1, was the first car built by Fuji Heavy Industries, made in 1954 when the company already sold the Fuji Rabbit scooter and wanted to try a motor car of its own. It was a monocoque car in the ponton style, with independent front wishbones and a live rear axle on leaf springs, and it used one of two 1.5 litre overhead-valve four-cylinder engines, the FG4A sourced from the Peugeot 202 and built by Fuji Precision Technology, or an in-house L4-1. Only 20 were built, six of them lent to taxi companies for trials, because Toyota and Prince were about to launch rivals and mass production looked too costly. Subaru built no other front-engine, rear-wheel-drive car until the BRZ in 2012.
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The Subaru 1500 is the first car built by Fuji Heavy Industries, with the development code-name of P1.
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to compete with established Japanese manufacturing efforts at the time
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Only 20 P-1's were built, all in 1954, with 11 vehicles using the FG4A engine, with the remaining nine cars using the updated L4-1 engine.
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The P-1 was water-cooled and used two different 1.5 litre OHV four-cylinder inline engines.
Production, units built
Only 20 P-1's were built, all in 1954,
Engines, L4-1
Maximum power is 48 PS (35 kW; 47 bhp) for the FG4A, 55 PS (40 kW; 54 bhp) for the L4-1.
Engines, FG4A
Maximum power is 48 PS (35 kW; 47 bhp) for the FG4A, 55 PS (40 kW; 54 bhp) for the L4-1.
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The Subaru 1500 is the first car built by Fuji Heavy Industries, with the development code-name of P1.
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to compete with established Japanese manufacturing efforts at the time
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