Subaru Brings the "Power of Love" to the People

-Share the Love charity to be chosen on Facebook

CHERRY HILL, N.J., Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Subaru of America, Inc. is offering the Facebook community an exclusive opportunity to select one of the charities to be a partner in this year's fourth annual Subaru Share the Love event. To date, Subaru has donated almost $15 million to Share the Love charities and hopes to donate an additional $5 million this year.

The Share The Love event donates $250 for every new Subaru vehicle sold or leased from Nov. 19 through Jan. 3. The new Facebook voting program allows consumers to vote for a charity that will be designated "People's Choice." Online voting will be available exclusively to Subaru's Facebook community.  The eligible charities are:

Teach For America: Teach For America is the national corps of recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org.

The American Red Cross: The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies nearly half of the nation's blood; teaches lifesaving skills; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. For more information, visit www.redcross.org.

The Children's Miracle Network: Children's Miracle Network Hospitals started as a televised fundraiser and has grown into a leading children's charity. Millions of children benefit each year by the funds and awareness raised by the organization and its network of 170 children's hospitals across the US. For more information, visit http://childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation: The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. With the help of generous donors and nearly 25,000 volunteers, the Make-A-Wish Foundation grants a wish every 40 minutes and has granted more than 200,000 wishes in the United States since its inception. For more information, visit www.wish.org.

"We are pleased to offer this opportunity to Subaru's online community," said Brian Johnson, National Advertising Manager for Subaru of America, Inc. "This lets our customers get directly involved with our partners and allows them to have a say in who Subaru partners with in this year's event."

Online voting runs from Aug. 25  – Sep. 15 and will be hosted on the Subaru of America Facebook page. The charity that receives the most votes during that timeframe will be announced as the fifth charity partner of this year's Share The Love event. In addition, for the first 200,000 votes, Subaru will donate 10 cents per vote to the charity receiving the vote.

Follow the Subaru of America Facebook page and subaru_usa on Twitter.

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2012 Subaru Impreza: Same Price, More Gas Mileage, Still AWD

The 2012 Subaru Impreza, unveiled at the New York Auto Show this spring, has the highest projected gas mileage of any all-wheel drive vehicle on sale in the U.S. this year: 27 mpg city and an impressive 36 mpg highway.

Now Subaru has released pricing for its compact four-door sedan and hatchback models, and while the fuel efficiency has risen, the price hasn't.

Subaru held the line entirely, pricing the base 2012 Impreza 2.0i sedan with a five-speed manual gearbox at $17,495 (plus a mandatory $750 delivery fee on all models). That's exactly the same price as the comparable model last year.

The hatchback is $500 more, at $17,995. Adding a continuously variable transmission (CVT) automatic to either car, a new option this year, raises the price by $1,000, to $18,495 or $18,995 respectively.

The 148-horsepower, 2.0-liter flat-four engine is also new this year, producing the same power on less gasoline as last year's older 2.5-liter engine.

More upscale trim levels include Premium, Sport Premium, and Limited models.

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Production Subaru XV Crossover/Outback Sport Teased in Advance of 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

Subaru will reveal the production version of the XV small crossover concept at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show in September. In the meantime, however, the automaker released the teaser sketch shown above, which details the look of the XV’s headlamps and wheels. Unsurprisingly, those bits look similar to the XV concept’s. The headlights appear to be identical to 2012 Impreza units, appearing in the teaser with less fanciful interior elements than on the show car. And we like the wheels, which look a lot like the attractive black 17-inch rollers available on the new Ford Focus.

The XV concept previews the next Outback Sport—a niche Impreza trim that features a slightly raised suspension and a two-tone exterior color scheme—and shares many styling elements with the upcoming 2012 Impreza hatch. Subaru promises that the rest of the XV should remain as true to the concept as what we see in the teaser, saying that it “combin[es] the latest distinctive Subaru elements with the commanding silhouette expected of a crossover.” The XV will go on sale in the U.K. in early 2012; if it comes here, it’s probably safe to add several months to that timetable and “Outback Sport” back into your vocabulary.

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