Subaru Is Still the Hottest Car Company in the U.S.

No other company has come close to matching the Japanese brand's sales growth this year.
Photographer: Ryan Lowry/Bloomberg Business
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The U.S. auto business in 2015 is a Hollywood movie—one big car chase and a happy ending. If there's a hero, it's scrappy little Subaru, the Japanese company best known as Fuji Heavy Industries.

U.S. drivers bought a record 53,070 Subarus in September, a 28 percent increase over the same month last year. No other car company saw sales grow so quickly. In fact, no other company has been close to matching Subaru's sales pace all year.