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| related = Subaru Legacy/Outback }} The Subaru Baja ''(pronounced ba-ha)'' is an all-wheel-drive, four passenger, four-door, open-bed pickup truck manufactured from 2002 to 2006 by Subaru and marketed for model years 2003 to 2006. The Baja combines the handling and passenger carrying characteristics of a traditional passenger car with the open-bed versatility, and to a lesser degree, load capacity of a pickup truck. The Baja nameplate derives from Mexico's noted peninsula of the same name — home to the Baja 1000 off-road race. The unibody design borrowed heavily from the existing mechanicals, platform and sheet metal of the Subaru Legacy/Outback wagon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= First Drive: 2003 Subaru Baja )〕 Production began on July 18, 2002〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Subaru of Indiana History )〕 as a 2003 model at the Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. factory in Lafayette, Indiana. == Design and engineering == ] Working with technical support from Subaru Japan, a team led by Peter Tenn, Subaru senior designer, penned the Baja in the United States. According to an August, 2002 interview〔 with Tenn, "the Baja's jarring look is homage to rally-race trucks. It's supposed to look funky, look different. It doesn't fit any category, and we knew that going in. It's not like anything else on the road. And that's important to a lot of people." The Baja followed closely Subaru's ST-X (Sport Truck X-perimental) concept vehicle presented at the 2000 North American International Auto Show,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Subaru Subaru ST-X Sport Utility Pickup Concept )〕 and also designed by a special Subaru America design team. The ST-X offered a greater complement of features than the production Baja (power rear window, under floor storage compartment, tailgate cup holders), but nevertheless set the production groundwork for an Outback-based, four-door, car-truck hybrid. In a package longer than an Outback,〔 the Baja featured a four-door passenger compartment along with a open bed and drop-down tailgate. A system marketed as the "Switchback"〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= One More Time )〕 allowed the rear passenger seat to fold down and a small hatch from the open bed to fold inward, allowing an extended length of to the end of the open tailgate. A light in the instrument cluster signaled an "open" status for the Switchback. The design featured two stainless steel exposed buttresses〔 behind the passenger compartment, marketed as Sports Bars, providing structural reinforcement for the open bed. Feature details included tinted rear door windows and rear window; an integrated bed liner; a dual-illumination bed light; four bed tie-down hooks; molded-in recesses to receive standard 2x4's to enable customized (e.g., bi-level) storage; standard roof rails with cross bars; a tow rating of , a rear seat center position rigid hinged storage compartment with integral twin cupholders, rear-seat power supply, rear-seat center storage net, map-pockets at rear of each front seat; an under-bed mounted spare tire, operable via a cable winch accessible from an access panel in the bed itself and a fold-up license plate holder with a mechanism allowing the plate to lock perpendicular to the tailgate, such that with the tailgate lowered, the plate remained visible – mimicking the tailgate and license plate arrangement on older station wagon / estates with biparting tailgates, e.g., the Volvo Amazon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Subaru Baja」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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