Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Subaru

I asked the Subaru service guy what the stars in the Subaru logo meant.
"Idiot customer," he thought.
He said, "I dunno."


Well, pretty cool stuff on the name and Subaru history in that link above.
So, Subaru is the Japanese word for the Pleiades star cluster:

I can see the resemblance, I guess.

But I thought Pleiades was a video game:

QOTD
"Modified versions of the Impreza WRX and WRX STi have been competing successfully in car rallies and the World Rally Championship for many years."
- That's right, baby! (source

sooby... yow, bill

PS - Car & Driver test drive of the 2011 WRX STI sedan... it looks dreamy!

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