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Subaru

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Nissan

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What we compare	Subaru	Nissan
Country in archive	Japan	Japan
Founded	July 15, 1953	1933
Founder	Kenji Kita	Yoshisuke Aikawa
Headquarters	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	Yokohama, Kanagawa, 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.	Nissan is a contraction of Nihon Sangyo, the Japanese name of Yoshisuke Aikawa's holding company, which was abbreviated that way on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the 1930s. The automobile business that took the name grew out of Aikawa's group and the earlier DAT and Datsun cars.
Selected models	Subaru 360, Impreza WRX, Legacy, Outback, Forester, Alcyone SVX	Datsun 240Z, Skyline GT-R, Datsun 510, Silvia, Leaf
Earliest archived brand logo	1953	1933
Latest archived logo	2019	2020
Archived logo assets	9	18

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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