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New Law Opens Path For Toyota Takeover Of Subaru
Topic Started: Feb 7 2007, 09:04 AM (89 Views)
rob99
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Toyota has been eying a takeover of Fuji Heavy Industries – Subaru's parent company – for some time now. When General Motors ditched its 20 percent stake in Fuji back in October 2005, Toyota snapped up 8.7 percent and the two have been undertaking a series of joint ventures since.

But that wasn't nearly enough for the Toyota Motor giant that's getting closer and closer to the #1 global automaker spot with each passing day. An acquisition of Subaru would bring them even closer, if only they could.

The one obstacle standing in Toyota's way until now has been a Japanese law that prohibits any single company from controlling more than half of the domestic market for any particular product – automobiles, in this case. Between the two of them, Toyota and Subaru commanded a hefty 45.6 percent of the Japanese car market in 2006, and that's mighty close to the limit. However, new Japanese anti-trust laws taking effect in April will refocus the criteria on the company's global market share instead of domestic, in a bid to help Japanese companies compete in export markets.
We'd expect Toyota and Fuji to take advantage of this move by the Japanese government. Corporate maneuvering aside, the potential for Subaru's influence on Toyota products has us daydreaming of serious STi-ness trickling down through the entire Toyota line-up.


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Harvey
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Blimey. Toyota on the up again. They have just recently overtaken ford in the US making them the 2nd biggest car sales in USA, and they reckon they might exceed GM soon too!
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Andy
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could the end for subaru be getting closer? or will it become the toyota impreza? doesnt have the same ring to it but i dont see them owning subaru 1 day and not changing the name.
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they will more then likely keep all the names mate and soak up the profit :)

After all, its not a Ford RX8 or Ford DB9 ;)
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Andy
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true, i forgot ford owned a few other companies. doesnt it all trace back to something like 4 companies owning the entire industry or something like that?
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