Subaru Forester Driver Maxes Out Odometer at 1 Million Kilometres

Zaventem, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Subaru Forester owner clocks up 1 million kilometres with no
breakdowns
- Subarus are built to last with 97% of cars built in the last ten
years still on the road*[1]

Musician Jerner Jung from Slovenia has reached 1 million
kilometres - the equivalent of driving 25 laps around the world - in
the first generation Subaru Forester he bought on a friend's
recommendation back in 1998.

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Jerner, also known as Jerry, recalls the moment he reached 1
million kilometres while driving in his hometown of Ljubljana as the
car's odometer clicked round and got stuck on 999,999 kilometres: "I
was constantly checking the odometer because I thought it would be
automatically restarted to 0 kilometres. So I took pictures before
because I expected no one would believe me. To my pleasant surprise
it got stuck at 999,999 kilometres."

Two decades since buying the vehicle, and after driving in all
kinds of weather conditions and road environments, Jerry's Forester
has never broken down. "I always paid attention to its regular
maintenance and this car still retains about 70% of its original
parts to this day."

Subaru Europe President and CEO, Masamichi Kudo said: "We
congratulate Jerry for this great achievement and also for taking
good care of his Subaru. This Forester reaching the 1 million
kilometre mark is further proof of our cars' longevity, built to last
longer."

Subaru has established a reputation for making tough cars to
withstand the effects of both the elements and time. Over 97% of the
Subaru vehicles sold in Europe in the last 10 years are still on the
road today*[1].

The current, fourth generation Subaru Forester received top
ratings in crash safety evaluation programmes worldwide. This
includes winning the highest five-star overall rating in the European
New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP)*[2] safety performance test
in 2012.

The combination of Subaru's core technology, Symmetrical All-wheel
Drive, Boxer Engine and X-mode feature with Hill Descent Control,
gives the latest Forester in Europe the capability needed on
challenging road and weather conditions.

(*) 1 Based on IHS Markit European vehicles in operation as of end
December 2016

(*) 2 Euro NCAP is an independent agency composed of European
governments and European motoring and consumer organizations,
assessing new car safety performance since 1997 situations in poor
visibility

(*) 6 Forester, Outback, Subaru XV

Contact: Subaru Europe Press, +32(0)2-714-0-400

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