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Puppies and All-Wheel Drive: How Subaru Built Its Ardent Fan Base

The Japanese automaker marketed itself to underserved customers.

Puppies and All-Wheel Drive: How Subaru Built Its Ardent Fan Base

The Japanese automaker marketed itself to underserved customers.

Published 01-25-22

Submitted by Subaru of America, Inc.

Subaru Subaru's best-selling models are the Forrester, pictured, and the Outback.
Subaru Subaru's best-selling models are the Forrester, pictured, and the Outback.

Originally published on ABC News website

By Morgan Korn

Some automakers tout engine performance, cutting-edge technology or exclusivity to attract buyers. Japanese automaker Subaru has a different approach.

In 2019 the company transformed 10,000 square feet of the Javits Convention Center in New York into a state-of-the-art immersive exhibit where Yellowstone's Old Faithful geyser and Denali's snowcapped peak were the focus -- not the company's sport utility vehicles.

Deer, foxes and muskrats can be spotted along the walking trails at Subaru's Indiana facility, the sole U.S. manufacturing plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. Materials on site are either reused, recycled or repurposed and in 2004 the plant achieved zero landfill status -- another industry first.

"Business has to have a purpose besides selling cars and making money -- it has to make our society better," Thomas Doll, president and CEO of Subaru of America, Inc., told ABC News. "We pride ourselves that we have that community aspect."

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