Subaru Tecnica International

Subaru Tecnica International
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryAutomotive
Founded2 April 1988; 36 years ago (1988-04-02)
FounderRyuichiro Kuze
Headquarters,
Japan
Key people
Yoshio Hirakawa
Masahiro Maeda
Hiroshi Mori
Koji Mitsuno
OwnerSubaru Corporation
ParentSubaru
Websitewww.sti.jp

Subaru Tecnica International (in Japanese: スバルテクニカインターナショナル株式会社, romanizedSubaru Tekunika Intānashonaru Kabushiki-gaisha),[1] or STI (prior to 2006, STi), is Subaru Corporation's motorsports division. STI, along with Prodrive of the UK, specialized in the preparation of a variety of vehicles for the Subaru World Rally Team which competed in the World Rally Championship (WRC). It was founded in 1988 by Subaru Corporation (then known as Fuji Heavy Industries), the parent company of Subaru, to promote the company's performance-oriented identity.

  1. ^ "The History of Subaru". GearHeads.org. 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2017-04-25.