Six Star Magazine Six Star Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 3

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The Magazine for
Canadian Subaru Owners

Contents
02 President’s message

Welcome to the new Six Star

04 Subaru 360o
 full scope of news from
The
at home and around the world
featuring the Canadian Car
of the Year!

08 A little travelling music

How to build your personal
soundtrack with SiriusXM®

09 The secrets of safety
 the angles on crash testing
All
from the IIHS

12 An epic adventure

Two women and one XV Crosstrek
tackle the Mongolia Charity Rally

18 The best golf courses

in Canada

 definitive guide to the top-5—
A
and a quick nod to the next-5

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30 The 2015 Pan Am and

Parapan Am Games

 spotter’s guide to the top
A
events and the top athletes

34 A public spectacle

Creative public art installations
from across the country

36 The new Subaru

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Rally Team Canada


New car, new driver, new
co-driver—maximum attack

40 A graphic showdown
 2015 SRTC WRX STI versus
The
the 2015 Subaru WRX STI

43 Subaru star customer
 heart-stopping account
The
of a very lucky Impreza driver

44 Cool gear for spring

Some choice items for those who
crave adventure of all kinds.

22 The surfer’s up

Catching a wave with homegrown
surfer Pete Devries

26 Four is greater than two

How Subaru symmetrical full-time
AWD works—and why it’s better

Cover: Photo by Jess Watt • Page 12 - Photo by Jess Watt
Page 18 - Photo courtesy of Capilano Golf & Countr y Club • Page 34 - Photo by Marc Cramer

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Why Six Star?
The word “Subaru” has two meanings: the
first translates into English as “gather together”
and the second is the Japanese name for
the Pleiades, the star cluster in the Taurus
constellation. This formation is also called
mutsuraboshi, the Japanese word for “six stars”
and appears in very old documents. When Fuji
Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI) was incorporated in
1953, it merged together five leading Japanese
manufacturing companies and the automotive
division called Subaru was eventually given the
now-familiar six-star logo.

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