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Latest archived mark · 2019

Subaru

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Mazda

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What we compare	Subaru	Mazda
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	July 15, 1953	January 30, 1920
Founder	Kenji Kita	Jujiro Matsuda
Headquarters	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan
Name origin	Subaru is the Japanese name of the Pleiades star cluster. Kenji Kita, the head of Fuji Heavy Industries, gave the name to the company's first passenger car project after none of the staff suggestions satisfied him. It was a Japanese word he said he had long held dear.	Mazda's own account says the name comes from Ahura Mazda, described as the god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia. The company also notes that the name derives from the surname of its founder, Jujiro Matsuda. The name first appeared on the Mazda-Go three-wheeled truck in 1931.
Selected models	Subaru 360, Impreza WRX, Legacy, Outback, Forester, Alcyone SVX	Cosmo Sport, RX-7, MX-5 Miata, 787B, CX-5, Mazda3
Earliest archived brand logo	1953	1920
Latest archived logo	2019	2018
Archived logo assets	9	15

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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