Subaru maker targets 6 pct sales increase for 2013

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd, the maker of Subaru cars, targets a 6 percent increase in global sales, spurred by the introduction of a new Forester SUV model and demand for its Impreza and XV crossover vehicles.

Deliveries will probably rise to 750,000 in 2013 from 706,612 last year, the carmaker said on Tuesday in a statement. Sales in China, which posted their first rise in four months in December, will climb about 32 percent to 57,500 units. Fuji Heavy's December sales in China rose by 20 percent, Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, Fuji Heavy president, said at a news conference in Tokyo.