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Ta Ching Motor Co. (TCMC; ) was a Taiwanese automotive manufacturer between 1986 and 2002. Headquartered in

Pingtung City Pingtung City (; Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī, POJ: ''Pîn-tong-chhī'') is a county-administered city and the county seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan. History The area of modern-day Pingtung City was originally a village of the Taiwanese Plains Aborig ...

, it was the official procuration dealer of the

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ese

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motor brand in Taiwan. Its main shareholders included Taiwan

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Co., Ltd., and the parent company of the Subaru brand,

Fuji Heavy Industries is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate primarily involved in both terrestrial and aerospace transportation manufacturing. It is best known for its line of Subaru automobiles. Founded in 1953, the company was formerly named ( ...

. The annual production in the 1990s was 20,000 per year, but quickly scaled down to 1,713 in the year 2001. Fuji Heavy Industries tried to obtain the sales and production of Taiwan-made Subaru vehicles on their own, but failed to increase sales. The cooperation between TCMC and Fuji Heavy Industries ended in 2002 when TCMC went defunct.

Introduction

Established in 1986, Ta Ching Motor Co. was the eighth automobile manufacturer in Taiwan. After the introduction in 1989, the

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van and Justy hatchback started production, and later that year,

signed a long-term contract with TCMC. Ta Ching Motor Co. later developed the Tutto sedan unique to

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based on the Justy hatchback. In the following year(1990), the 2.2L

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was imported while the Taiwanese market started to crowd. In 1997, the

Subaru Impreza The is a compact car that has been manufactured by the Japanese automaker Subaru since 1992. It was introduced as a replacement for the Leone, with the predecessor's EA series engines replaced by the new EJ series. It is now in its sixth gen ...

was introduced and put into production. These were exported to

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, and

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in the following year, becoming the first Taiwan-made vehicles to be exported to

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an and

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n countries. Ta Ching Motor Co. still failed, however, due to slow car sales in Taiwan at the time, which resulted in long term debt.參�
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Products

* Estratto * Impreza GT/RX * Impreza Casa Blanca * Justy hatchback * Tutto sedan(Designed by TCMC based on the Justy hatchback) *

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(Imported from Japan) *

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(Imported from Japan)

Aftermath

* In March 2002,

removed all Japanese board members from TCMC. * The factory of TCMC in

was sold to Honda Taiwan as

Honda is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...

's main production base in Taiwan. In 2016 the property was resold to SuperAlloy Industry(SAI) alloy manufacturer as their new production facility. * From 1 April 2002, Subaru of Taiwan Co., Ltd. (SOT), a subsidiary of

took charge of importing new

vehicles in Taiwan. * From 2006, Motor Image Enterprises Pte Ltd. based in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

obtained the procuration rights of the

brand in Taiwan from

and established Taiwan Motor Image Co., Ltd. The first dealership was established in November 2007 in

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. Image:1990 Ta Ching-Subaru Tutto (front).jpg, Tutto. Image:Subaru-1st-Justy-Taching.jpg, First Generation Justy, With the "Ta Ching" label. Image:TW Subaru Impreza AWD 1st silver left-head.jpg, First Generation Impreza AWD. Image:Taiwan Subaru Estratto 1.2MPI left-front.jpg, Estratto 1.2MPI. Image:SUBARU IMPREZA CB TW 001.jpg, Casa Blanca. Image:硬皮鯊 GT.JPG, Impreza GT.

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Fuji Heavy Industries
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Introduction

Products

Aftermath

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