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Subaru Rally Team USA driver Travis Pastrana and his co-driver Christian Edstrom overcame
treacherously icy conditions to take a dominating win at this weekend’s Sno*Drift Rally, round one
of the 2010 Rally America National Championship. Pastrana, the defending four-time Rally
America National Champion, won by over one minute and thirty seconds driving an open class
rally specification 2010 Subaru Impreza WRX STI. In an amazing show of determination and grit,
Pastrana completed the event nursing an extremely sore collarbone which he broke in a
motocross accident less than a week ago. His Subaru Rally Team USA teammate, BMX legend
turned rally pro Dave Mirra, finished 6th overall with co-driver Derek Ringer.
The Sno*Drift Rally was held on over 130 miles of snow and ice-covered roads in northern
Michigan. Constantly changing weather and road conditions historically make this rally extremely
challenging. This year’s event featured forest roads that were a virtual skating rink after recent
warm weather melted the snow cover which then refroze this past week, leaving the roads
covered in a thick sheet of ice. Rally America rules prohibit the use of spiked or studded ice-tires,
placing a high premium on traction. Many competitors commented that conditions were the most
treacherous they have ever experienced due to the lack of snow cover over the ice as well as the
extremely small snow banks, which when present, help keep errant rally cars on the road and
away from the trees.

We have a new 2009 STI and a new 2010 STI in stock here at Richard Lucas Subaru in Woodbridge, NJ. Were only minutes from Staten Island, Edison, and South Brunswick.

Of course you know I was watching this on New Years Eve. The STI making history once again. We have a Brand New leftover 2009 STI here in the showroom, at Richard Lucas Subaru located in Woodbridge, NJ. We are one of the local Subaru dealers for Staten Island, South Brunswick, and Edison.

Subaru of America, Inc. announced today that reigning fourtime
Rally America National Champion Travis Pastrana and BMX Freestyle legend Dave Mirra
are both returning as factory team drivers for Subaru Rally Team USA in 2010. Pastrana and
Mirra will each pilot a 2010 Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car prepared by Subaru technical
partner Vermont SportsCar.
Subaru Rally Team USA will compete in the entire 2010 Rally America National Championship
and ESPN’s X Games 16 Rally Car Racing event, and it will also participate in Rally America’s
new European-style Rally Cross exhibition events.
“Rally car racing presents unique challenges that place a premium on traction and drivability,”
said Tim Mahoney, senior vice president and CMO for Subaru of America, Inc. “Subaru’s
participation in the Rally America National Championship successfully serves to showcase the
performance of our Impreza platform through core technologies rooted in our Subaru
Symmetrical All Wheel Drive and boxer engine.”
Action sports icon and rally champion Pastrana has driven exclusively for the Subaru brand
since he began rally competition in 2004. Dominating rallying in the United States since 2006,
Pastrana has amassed 18 overall victories and 36 podiums, along with two gold medals, a
bronze and silver at the ESPN X Games Rally Car events.
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“The sport has grown and the competition in 2010 will be better than ever, and so I’m glad to be
in the best car with the best team again to go for my fifth championship,” said Pastrana. As in
2009, Christian Edstrom will be Pastrana’s co-driver.
Pastrana dramatically closed out 2009 by setting the world record for longest distance jump in a
rally car on New Year’s Eve in Long Beach, Calif. He soared his Vermont SportsCar-prepared
Subaru Impreza STI rally car 269 feet over Rainbow Harbor, landing on a floating barge and
surpassing the previous record by 98 feet.
Mirra, who became a pro BMX rider in 1992, holds the record for most X Games medals
(including most gold medals) and has medaled in every X Games since their inception in 1995.
Credited with bringing freestyle BMX into the mainstream, Mirra began a transition to rally racing
in late 2007 and joined Subaru Rally Team USA in 2008. He earned Rally America’s “Rookie of
the Year” that year. “It’s great having the support of Subaru to race with the best drivers in North
America and allowing me to develop as a rally driver,” said Mirra.
Mirra will move up to an Open Class Subaru WRX STI from the lower specification Super
Production Class Subaru that he campaigned in 2009. He will again team with former WRC
champion co-driver Derek Ringer, who has been instrumental in Mirra’s rapid ascension to a top
driver in the Rally America Championship.

Hey everyone, we just got in a brand new 2009 STI on the lot. It was a leftover from Subaru. Its Spark Silver with silver BBS wheels, and has the navigation package. The car’s on the lot right now, here at Richard Lucas Subaru. We also have a really nice pre-owned 2009 WRX wagon in silver. Its got about 2000 miles on it, but its a great deal. Here’s the pictures of the STI, come check them out in person at Richard Lucas Subaru located in Woodbridge, NJ minutes from Edison, New Brunswick, and Staten Island.

Hi everyone, just wanted to say happy holidays from everyone here at “The Subaru Blog” and everyone from Richard Lucas Subaru located in Woodbridge New Jersey on rt 1. We just got in a bunch of new inventory including a brand new 2009 STI in spark silver. Its going to be my best buy of the new year!!!! Check out the website for more updates and pictures.

This video is pretty cool, you want to check this one out. We just got in two 2009 WRX’s pre-owned here on the lot right now. Pictures should be up today or saturday, if you want to come down and check them out where located in Avenel, NJ on Route 1. We are real close to Staten Island, Edison, Newark, and South Brunswick. 732-634-0100

Im thinking of getting a few of these for Inventory,

Subaru Rally Team USA driver Travis Pastrana put an authoritative stamp on his fourth consecutive
Rally America National Championship with a dominating win at the 2009 Lake Superior Performance
Rally (LSPR). Pastrana, from Davidsonville, MD, mathematically won the 2009 Rally America
Championship at the Ojibwe Forests Rally in late August. With nothing to lose and no pressure,
Pastrana entered LSPR stating he was intent on simply driving to dominate, taking risks and putting
on a proper show for the fans. He lived up to his claims by leading from the start at the wheel of his
2009 Subaru Impreza WRX STI rally car and finishing fastest on fifteen of LSPR’s seventeen stages.
Pastrana, with co-driver Christian Edstrom, won by a comfortable margin of over four minutes. The
win at LSPR is Pastrana’s 6th of the nine-event 2009 Rally America National Championship and caps
the most successful season of his rally career. Pastrana’s Subaru teammate Ken Block, with codriver
Alex Gelsomino, finished in third position overall and won the Super Production class.

Congrats Travis!!!! Here at Richard Lucas Subaru we support all of our Subaru Rally drivers, we will be getting the new 2010 STI pretty soon, come check it out here in Avenel, NJ. For all your Subaru Service, Parts, and Sales needs, we are located minutes from Staten Island, Jersey City, and Edison.

Well this is two years in a row, and Subaru is Number #1. Here is the article right from the motor trend website.

“For the first time since any of us can recall, an automaker has claimed the Motor Trend Sport/Utility of the Year title two years in a row. Last fall, deftly balancing efficiency and size, the all-new 2009 Subaru Forester went home with the Golden Calipers trophy. For 2010, fighting off several tough adversaries — and undoubtedly some unspoken but very real bias among our judges against repeat winners — Subaru’s new, fourth-generation Outback scored a decisive 10-1 victory in the final voting.Some vehicles arrive at our annual “Of the Year” competitions (car, sport/utility, truck) staking early claims to a win via bulging engine muscle, beguiling gizmos, fashion-runway sheetmetal. The Outback isn’t one of those. In fact, it slipped nearly unnoticed through our early walkarounds; the pre-drives chatter seemed to focus elsewhere — the ZDX’s spaceship lines, the Q5’s comparison test-winning moves, the Lincoln’s mighty yet efficient EcoBoost V-6. But then, one by one, our test drivers took the Outback into the field. And the buzz began to shift. Once again, it seemed, Subaru was successfully reshaping the very definition of “sport/utility vehicle” — melding the multi-mission prowess of true SUVs with the driving refinement, fuel-frugality, and easy access of wagons and sedans. Once again, our judges began taking extra notes.

Here at Richard Lucas Subaru we have seen alot of people coming in to see the new 2010 Outback, and we have sold a bunch too. If you want to come down for a test drive, feel free to stop down or give us a call at 732-634-0100. We are only minutes from Edison, South Brunswick, Union, and Oldbridge.

Hey everyone the new programs on the 2010’s are very aggresive right now. Check out our website’s for our special leases, plus the national programs are great. On a 2010 Impreza the national program is as low as $189 a month. For more info check out our website or just stop down here at Richard Lucas Subaru on RT 1 in Avenel NJ, just minutes from Staten Island, Edison, and Jersey City.