LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Subaru announced Monday it plans to spend $140 million to boost vehicle production at an Indiana factory and add up to 1,200 jobs in the next two years.
The Lafayette factory will see its production capacity grow by 100,000 vehicles a year from 300,000, the company said.
The production hike comes after Subaru sold a record 52,697 vehicles in the U.S. in August and represents a show of confidence by parent company Fuji Heavy Industries in Subaru’s only assembly factory outside Japan, said Tom Easterday, Subaru of Indiana Automotive’s executive vice president.
