Subaru To Stop Japanese Production Until May 1

They held out for equally long equally they can, but Subaru Corporation has announced that all its plants volition shutdown exclusively due to render chain disruptions, in addition to a sudden autumn inwards global involve for novel vehicles brought past times the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subaru of Indiana, dwelling of the Evoltis (U.S.-market Ascent) temporarily halted production terminal March 23, but now, the shutdown extends to fifty-fifty the carmaker’s Gunma Manufacturing Plant inwards Eastern Nihon that pretty much makes everything else. The shutdown, announced simply yesterday volition outset from Apr eleven to May 1, bringing a 17-day stoppage to all things Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive.

All of Japan’s 8 major rider auto manufacturers are immediately seeing production hampered past times the coronavirus pandemic.