{"id":129880,"date":"2018-09-21T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=129880"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:25:14","slug":"subaru-ascending-toward-another-annual-sales-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/09\/subaru-ascending-toward-another-annual-sales-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaru Ascending Toward Another Annual Sales Record"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Subaru is set to set a seventh consecutive annual sales record due to the new Ascent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Subaru is confident it can lock in its seventh consecutive year of sales gains thanks to promising launch of the Ascent, a three-row sport-utility vehicle\u00a0that has emerged as the Japanese automaker\u2019s flagship since its debut earlier this summer.<\/p>\n

Dominic Infante, Subaru\u2019s director of communication, noted during a presentation in North Carolina for the first drive of the 2019 Subaru Forester, which is due in showrooms that through August, Subaru has posted 81 consecutive months of sales gains.<\/p>\n

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News You Can Trust!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Ascent has been a great success out of the gate, Infante noted. Subaru hasn\u2019t been able to build\u00a0them fast enough to satisfy demand. The Ascent is built at the Subaru assembly plant in Indiana and Infante said that Subaru has only 12 days of Ascent inventory in the hands of dealers.<\/p>\n

(Get our first driving impressions of the new Subaru Ascent. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The new three-row Ascent fills a long-time gap in the company's product portfolio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The success of the Ascent, coming on the heels of Subaru\u2019s steady increase in sales in recent years, virtually insures that Subaru is within striking distance of setting another record sales increase again this year.<\/p>\n

The Ascent draws on Subaru\u2019s history of delivering a solid driving experience while the Ascent also offers a spacious interior, comfortable and flexible seating options and a number of new safety, driver assist and in-vehicle technologies.<\/p>\n

The new Ascent is built on a strengthened and extended version of the Subaru Global Platform with extensive use of high-strength steel and a focus on durability, rigidity and vibration resistance, making for a smoother ride under all types of conditions.<\/p>\n

(Latest Subaru Viziv Tourer hints at next-generation Outback wagon.\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The interior of the new Ascent features plenty of high-grade, soft-touch materials \u2014 and 19 cupholders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wheelbase is\u00a0113.8 inches long and comes with room for seven passengers and 19 standard cup and bottle holders, every passenger\u2019s beverage is secure and close at hand.<\/p>\n

It is powered by an all-new 2.4-liter Boxer engine and comes standard with a new version of Subaru\u2019s high-torque CVT or continuously variable transmission.\u00a0Subaru\u2019s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system is also standard.<\/p>\n

The interior of the new Ascent features ample space and soft-touch materials. Ascent joins three other Subaru models produced at the plant including the Outback, Legacy and Impreza.<\/p>\n

(To see more\u00a0about tSubaru\u2019s Crosstrek becoming its first plug-in hybrid model,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SIA has tracked the growth of the company\u2019s sales in the last five years, adding more than 2,000 employees to the team during that period.\u00a0To prepare for Ascent and Impreza production. SIA invested nearly $1.5 billion during the past five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By filling the long-time hole in its product line-up, a three-row SUV, with the new Ascent this year, Subaru virtually assured a seventh consecutive year of increased annual sales. The new ute is selling as fast as it can be made with just a 12-day supply for dealers. Go to TheDetroitBureau.com for the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":129882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5],"tags":[],"make":[107],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,123,132,283,139,211,128,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129880"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=129880"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=129880"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=129880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}