Toyota Motor Corp. said today it will buy 8.7 percent of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. from General Motors Corp.
Fuji owns the Subaru automobile brand and operates the 2,800-employee Subaru Indiana Automotive vehicle assembly plant at Lafayette.
GM acquired a 20-percent stake in Fuji Heavy in 1999 in part to gain access to all-wheel-drive technology. GM said it will sell off its remaining shares in Fuji at a later date.
GM, which posted a $1.2 billion second-quarter North American operating loss, is struggling to restructure and bail out ailing auto parts maker Delphi.
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