DerFahrer Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Time for a n00b question. Since my venture into the wonders of Gen1 ownership, I'm seeing a word that I believe to be spelled "Xivil" all over the place. It's on my starter on my 79, it's on some of the parts I've seen, I've even seen it in an FF1 ad. What is Xivil? Is that one of the Fuji companies? Or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerFahrer Posted June 20, 2006 Author Share Posted June 20, 2006 No ideas? A pic is worth a thousand words... I'm referring to the word that still appears to say Xivil in the upper right corner of this pic: Just curious, hungry for more useless Subaru trivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waimaks Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Subaru ghost? I can't find anything on the web about xivils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tailgatewagon Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 i belive that may be a jap word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubastreet Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 i belive that may be a jap word. If it is, it's a pretty rough translation to our alphabet; Japanese doesn't have an x or a v sound, both are very difficult for them to pronounce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtsmiths Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Roman numerals - eleven, six, fifty ... or - ten, four, forty-nine ... It could also be a very simplified representation of some Kanji or Katakana character set. WTH knows, sometimes Japanese logographics can be VERY obscure to the western mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanthompson Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 スバル Is SuBaRu (ス=SU, バ=BA, ル=RU） Its katakana. Subaru is also written in kanji in the smaller grey text to the left of the larger, bold katakana text. BT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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