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...Certainly, it's a perfect era for a car company that is green (it boasts zero-landfill production plants), safety-focused, and can deliver a fair amount of value and performance. In the snow belt regions of the Northeast and intermountain west, Subaru has long had a following because of its all-wheel-drive portfolio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subaru: A Rare Bright Spot Amid Automakers' Gloom | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...Subaru has successfully expanded both its geography and demography, becoming a more national car company and getting a broader customer base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subaru: A Rare Bright Spot Amid Automakers' Gloom | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...Having more than weathered the dreadfully bad 2008, Subaru officials aren't planning on lowering sales this year. At Detroit's North American International Auto Show, Subaru unveiled a concept car that will likely evolve into a midsize sedan version of its Legacy. And on a broader note, Doll says that more available credit and Barack Obama's stimulus package should get additional buyers into showrooms. Of course, if all else fails, there are always those folks who bought an Outback 7.3 years ago - and are ready to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subaru: A Rare Bright Spot Amid Automakers' Gloom | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...sometimes works for the fashion industry - bring back an old fashion, make it new and a fad is born. This time, though, it's the automotive industry, hoping for the kind of lifestyle change that can bring car sales back from the dead. All three major U.S. auto companies have been working on plans for electric cars, and debuted some prototypes at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week. Ford announced that it hopes to have an all-electric vehicle, which would be able run for 100 miles on a single charge, on sale by 2011. Chastened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Electric Car | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

There was indeed a time when electric cars were useful and relatively popular. Back when cars were used mostly for short jaunts around town or for deliveries between two nearby points, the charging of an electric car posed very little problem. In the 1830s, when Dutch inventor Sibrandus Stratingh created an electromagnetic cart, the vehicles have always stood out as a cleaner, cost-effective option to the steam or internal combustion engine. From Stratingh's invention evolved actual cars in the late 1800s that could move at low speeds using rechargeable batteries. Quieter and less noxious than their gas-powered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Electric Car | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

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