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Originally Posted by NiftySVX
It is a reasonable hypothesis that 001 was kept in japan and vin 002 was sent to the US ASAP for promotion as we were the primary market for the car.
This is something we should ask Subaru to reveal to us on the occasion of the car's 20th anniversary.
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Originally Posted by NiftySVX
Also, do you have personal knowledge that the prototype still exists? This would be both a surprise and a delight.
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Without hard information this is purely an hypothesis.
The USA may have been the target market and the volume export, but I'll point out that the VIN plate listed with the Pace car vin is shown in USA format. [ Version L, Lsi etc that we never see over here. Plus lhd] It is not beyond the realms of possibility that production number 001 is actually retained as an important vehicle for Fuji, and is in Japanese market trim and is rhd.
Does anybody know the truth?
Joe
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