Fuji Heavy to launch new hybrid car in 2012

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. President Ikuo Mori said his company will launch a gasoline-electric hybrid model in 2012. Mori, who was speaking at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show, didn’t say whether the hybrid model would be developed jointly with the company’s major shareholder Toyota Motor Corp., or whether it would be based on the concept hybrid model displayed at the motor show. The company, which makes Subaru-brand vehicles, displayed a sedan equipped with a 2-liter turbocharged gasoline engine with two electric motors. (October 21, 2009)