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Old 08-18-2004, 01:00 PM   #1
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Subaru Stars History of the Six Star Badge?

So the six star logo right now has one large prominent star on the left, and five smaller ones.

My sister-in-law got me a brass key tag with "Subaru" and a six-star logo on it and all the stars are nearly equal in size, and they are joined by lines. It's not really like the badge on the front of my lowly 2000 Impreza Brighton SportWagon at all.

So I figured maybe it was sort of bootleg.

But then I'm walking home last night, and in the parking lot I see an old Subaru (GL?) with a badge on its rear hatch (unusual now, actually, emblems, rather than names on the rear of a car). And that badge is more like my key tag.

So I'm wondering if here, or at some other web site somewhere there is a page outlining the historical development of the Subaru six star logo as we know it today.
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Old 08-18-2004, 01:14 PM   #2
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http://www.subaru-global.com/about/ says...

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Subaru refers to a star cluster in the Taurus constellation. The name is echoed in the famous Six-Star badge.
Wow. I never knew that. But I'm still looking for the history of changes in the badge.
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Old 08-18-2004, 01:17 PM   #3
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So why aren't the cars marketed in English markets as Pleiades?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiade...tar_cluster%29

Hey! That says it should be seven stars.

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Old 08-18-2004, 01:30 PM   #4
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Old 08-18-2004, 01:40 PM   #5
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subaru was like audi...a bunch of companies joined together and the 6 companies used the 6 star logo as pleiades even though there are 7 stars in pleiades
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Old 08-18-2004, 01:46 PM   #7
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Subaru Stars

I guess we're lucky they didn't choose to call them Mutsuraboshi ("six stars").
In a vaguely related note, Mitsubishi means "three diamonds". Not sure if that's only symbolic diamonds (quadrilaterals) or both those and the actual gems.

One page suggested that only six of the seven stars are visible to the naked eye.

Hmm. It looks like Fuji Heavy Industries is not the photographic/electronics giant (Fuji Photo Film). They're actually two quite unrelated companies? I'd always assumed they were the same, but probably I was wrong about that?

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Old 08-18-2004, 02:21 PM   #8
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Same here
It seems like destiny that I be engrossed in Subaru's now.
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Old 08-18-2004, 06:48 PM   #9
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And while searching the web for badges, I discover that there is an "I" badge for STi cars, which suddenly explains why some of the badges on AutoArt models didn't seem to be doing a very good job of replicating the Six Star emblem.

Here's a sample, for now, at least...



From http://www.eautoworks.com/productimages/I_embelm.jpg
http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ord-A...em-1-15621.htm
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Old 08-18-2004, 06:52 PM   #10
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http://www.subaclub.com/StarBadge.htm

Still no old six star badges, though...
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Old 08-18-2004, 06:56 PM   #11
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The old-style GL badge, like I saw last night...


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http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/207254
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And while searching the web for badges, I discover that there is an "I" badge for STi cars, which suddenly explains why some of the badges on AutoArt models didn't seem to be doing a very good job of replicating the Six Star emblem.

Here's a sample, for now, at least...



From http://www.eautoworks.com/productimages/I_embelm.jpg
http://www.eautoworks.com/html/ord-A...em-1-15621.htm

those are the MY02 and newer type badge...the GC had a straight "I" which i put on my MY00 RS
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Hmm. It looks like Fuji Heavy Industries is not the photographic/electronics giant (Fuji Photo Film). They're actually two quite unrelated companies? I'd always assumed they were the same, but probably I was wrong about that?
http://www.worldservicesgroup.com/corporationsf.asp
lists separately...

Fuji Bank, Limited
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
Fuji Electric Company
Fuji Fire and Marine Insurance
Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Fuji Photo Film Company, Ltd.
Fuji Photo Film USA, Inc.

And then there are Fujitsu names as well...
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