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TRI-STATE AREA 48-HOUR CHARITY DRIVE

IN MID-JANUARY, SUBARU ENTHUSIASTS from the Pennsylvania/New York/New Jersey area drove more than 800 miles in a weekend drive-a-thon for the American Cancer Society^®. Travel included narrow back roads as well as metro-area traffic.

This was the sixth year for the drive-a-thon, which raised $6,000 for the charity. It was contributed in the name of Ed Helbling, a nasioc.com member who recently passed on at the age of 27.

More information can be found at www.48hrs.info.

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PEPSI FREE RIDE WRX WINNERS

THE PEPSI FREE RIDE PROMOTION held between February 5 and April 30, 2007, has put 21 different winners in the driver’s seat of Subaru Impreza WRX automobiles. To date, winners include:

• Eric Butler, Geneseo, NY
• Michael Scott, Leesburg, GA
• Timothy Blake, Belvidere, IL
• Tracy Lee, George, UT
• Kelly Schultz, El River, MN
• William Smith, Bunnell, FL
• Thomas Pritchard, Tallmadge, OH
• Mark Nolan, Las Vegas, NV
• Jennifer Fye, Cresco, IA
• Scott Nicholas, San Jose, CA
• Jim Fellows, Palmdale, CA
• Paula Broadway-Jones, Cambridge, NE
• Noah Parker, Southington, CT
• Darlene Townsend, Powder Springs, GA
• Terry Hinch, Bethesda, MD
• Joy Vallejo, Sacramento, CA
• Douglas Smith, Sarasota, FL
• Elliot German, Crestview, FL
• Dallas Curtis, West Jordan, UT
• Glenda Metzger, St. Louis, MO
• John Spencer, Springfield, OR

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SUBARU CHALLENGE 2007

THE SUBARU CHALLENGE IS BACK!

These customer appreciation events are planned for various Subaru regions during 2007. The day-and-a-half-long events include meeting with other Subaru owners and participating in Subaru-only autocrosses.

Here are opportunities to meet some of the owners you’ve encountered on forums and employee representatives from Subaru of America.

You’ll also learn more about your Subaru by pushing it and yourself in an autocross. Eat free food! Receive freebies from Subaru!

For future Subaru Challenge dates and locations, visit www.subaruchallenge.com.

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KEN BLOCK’S BIG JUMP

HOW FAR AND HOW HIGH CAN A RALLY CAR JUMP? Ken Block of Subaru Rally Team USA took one of the Vermont SportsCar-prepared Monster Energy™ team cars and found out.

As shown on the Discovery Channel’s “Stunt Junkies” last February, Block prepared a motorcross-style dirt jump with a huge gap and landing ramp for the car. His final result: a jump 171 feet long at 30 feet off the ground.

See what he has to say about it on his Web site – www.ken-block.com, under the tab labeled, “News, Schedule & Results.”

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DRIVE PERFORMANCE NOW ONLINE

As announced on the back cover, Drive Performance has a new Web site at www.driveperformance.subaru.com. It’s an electronic version of the magazine, plus more!

• Online Exclusives expand many of each issue’s articles. Online Exclusives might be additional information on the article’s topic or more photographs to help tell the story.
• An archive contains electronic versions of all Drive Performance issues from the last four years, including Online Exclusives for some of the more recent articles.
• Wallpaper and screen savers give readers images unavailable anywhere else of the Subaru Motorsports teams, new Subaru vehicles, and owner cars.
• The Subaru blog by the Drive Performance editor and others on the magazine team bring you up to speed on anything having to do with Subaru performance – motorsports, Subaru Performance Tuning (SPT) parts and accessories, performance events, test drives, and other news and information.
• Links to Subaru-related sites of interest and addresses to write us are listed.
• Images from recent Subaru Motorsports and other performance events are filed.
• A Subaru calendar keeps you abreast with what’s happening and where.

Keep up with the Drive Performance site as it grows over time.

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