Publication: Auto Sport
Format: Road Impressions
Date: February 1968
Author: Junji Shirai

A powerful front-wheel drive car with a taste of international rally cars… that’s what the Subaru 1000 Sports Sedan is all about. With 67 horsepower, disc brakes, and radial tires, the front-wheel drive mechanism made it a real force on rough roads and highways.

Sports Version for International Rallies

It was still hot summer. I remember Erik Carlsson, an international rally driver who had come to Japan, driving a Subaru 1000 and saying the following: