Earl Duff Subaru
1028 S Roane St, Harriman, TN 37748All Departments: (877) 580-5669
News and Upcoming Events
We had a great turn out for the Subaru meeting on Saturday! Special thanks to Kyle and Dustin who helped get the word out and to Knoxville Subaru Owner's Club (Pres.Chris Anderson) for showing up! Also to all the new friends we got to meet from right here in Tennessee, as well as Alabama and North Carolina. Some of You all definitely put in the road time to join us for a day of fun (and some rain).
We definitely don't want to forget Nick from Vermont Sports Car Rallying and Subaru Rally Team USA! What a great guy. Full of energy and fun stories. He was always willing to lend a hand and help out any way he could.
We hope to have some more of these great events in the future.
May1st 2010!! Don't Miss it Subaru Meet/ Car Show+
Plus what you ask? See the following for more details.
We will be having a Subaru Meet on May 1,2010. This is on a Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event is open to the public and Subaru car clubs alike. Please RSVP to us with your Subaru Club as we will be serving you lunch that day. Also the plus is we will have Travis Pastrana's record setting STi and the Subaru car hauler with SPT parts display. That's right get a close up of a real deal,pure bred rally machine!
We want everyone to come out and have a great time with us, meet some new Subaru enthusiasts , and get to see what other Subaru people are into.
We look forward to seeing you here.
Dustin and Kyle's Subaru Adventure!!
Here is a write up from our liaisons in the field to a rally Event in Eastern Missouri. The 100 Acre Rally is always sure to excite! Thanks to Kyle and Dustin for being such loyal Subaru enthusiasts! We appreciate all you have done for the Subaru community and for Earl Duff Subaru! Please enjoy the following article and pictures.
Local Subaru owners, Kyle Sherrill & Dustin McCoy attend 100 Acre Wood Rally
We set out on a Thursday evening in Dusty's '02 WRX full of rally excitement. There are not too many times when rally racing comes this close to East Tennessee and this was one of the few occasions where we actually had time, so we jumped at the opportunity. The drive would take us on a round trip of 1330 miles, all the way through Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois, to the vast rural expanse of Eastern Missouri. We arrived to a sold out hotel in Salem, MO at 1:00 AM. The parking lot at the hotel was full of rally prepped Subaru's.
The next morning we had breakfast with the rally teams. Sitting next to us at the continental breakfast was Lance Smith, owner of Vermont Sportscar and Director of the Subaru Rally Team USA. Sitting with him was XGames gold medalist, Dave Mirra. After breakfast we set out for the park expose' where we were given the chance to meet the rally drivers and get an up-close and personal look at the cars.
Subaru of America had a VIP booth setup exclusively for Subaru owners. To gain entry all we had to present was our Subaru keys. At the back of the booth, Travis Pastrana and Dave Mirra, both of Subaru's Rally Drivers, were signing autographs and taking pictures with fans. Walking through the crowd we ran into Lance Smith and had a chance to talk with him. We all thought he was a really genuine guy as well as a huge Subaru enthusiast. He even had us do a small interview with a SOA Media representative, just to let Subaru know that their money was not going to waste, and just how large of a following Rally America has. The number of Subaru drivers there was enormous. For those 2 or 3 days, Salem has to become the flat four capital of the U.S. This just shows how much love Subaru owners have for the sport that made Subaru a house hold name for most enthusiasts.
That afternoon, following the park expose' we checked our rally guide and traversed our way to the first spectator area. After a short wait in the woods on the side of a dirt road, we heard off in the distance a faint boxer rumble. The first car around the bend was Travis Pastrana in his Impreza WRX STI. It reminded us again, why we loved Subaru and rally racing.
After the first stage, the teams would drive one more stage before returning to the pit area for service. This gave us time to head to the third stage, which would be one of two night stages. There is nothing like a night stage of rally racing. Spectators bundled up and standing at the edge of the woods, all waiting the sight of headlights to see the sideways driving, dirt slinging excitement that was to come.
The next day it was business as usual for the drivers, with
them having another park expose' in downtown Salem. The town was packed out with people, so we
opted to skip out on this since we had already met the drivers the day
before. So we met up with our buddies
and headed out to what would be our final 
stage.
The stage itself was exciting with the spectator area once
again setup at a hairpin and the drivers digging in for the final day of
racing. When we left Travis Pastrana had
a commanding lead. But during the Super Special
later on that day, Travis broke a control arm and was unable to get the car
back to running.
All in all it was a fantastic weekend of racing. The best part about it is that the whole thing is free to the public! All you have to do is get there. This might have been the first time we have ever been to this race, but it definitely won't be our last.
Again guys thanks for allowing us to use your article and pictures! We look forward to more in the future!
Sincerely,
Benjamin Ray
Subaru Charitable Donations
Earl Duff Subaru also got involved on a local level with the Humane Society of Roane County Rescue Team.We were able to raise and additional $700 for this wonderful organization.
2010 Outback Motor Trend SUV of The Year!!
Subaru is the only Manufacturer to win this award back to back!!
Subaru Recognized as the Only Manufacturer with All Vehicles Rated a TOP SAFETY PICK by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety
Cherry Hill, N.J., November 18, 2009 - Subaru of America, Inc. today announced that it has been recognized as the only manufacturer with all vehicles named a TOP SAFETY PICK by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
"We are extremely pleased to be the only manufacturer with all vehicles named a TOP SAFETY PICK. This is an outstanding success and a tribute to the engineering that goes into Subaru products," said Tom Doll, executive vice president and COO, Subaru of America, Inc. "To have this recognition by the IIHS reinforces to our customers that we maintain the highest standards when producing vehicles that are safe, durable, reliable as well as fun-to-drive."
"Subaru is the only manufacturer with a TOP SAFETY PICK winner in every vehicle class in which it competes," said IIHS president Adrian Lund. "The vehicles that earn this designation are the cream of the crop for protecting people in the most common kinds of crashes, and they have electronic stability control for helping drivers stay out of many crashes altogether."
The TOP SAFETY PICK recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rear, and now rollover crashes based on 'good' ratings, which denotes 'good' as the top ranking status possible in Institute tests. Winners also must have electronic stability control.
About IIHS
The Institute's frontal crash-worthiness evaluations are based on results of 40 mph frontal offset crash tests. Each vehicle's overall evaluation is based on measurements of intrusion into the occupant compartment, injury measures recorded on a Hybrid III dummy in the driver seat, and analysis of slow-motion film to assess how well the restraint system controlled dummy movement during the test.
Side evaluations are based on performance in a crash test in which the side of a vehicle is struck by a barrier moving at 31 mph. The barrier represents the front end of a pickup or SUV. Ratings reflect injury measures recorded on 2 instrumented SID-IIs dummies representing a 5th percentile woman, assessment of head protection countermeasures, and the vehicle's structural performance during the impact.
Rear crash protection is rated according to a two-step procedure. Starting points for the ratings are measurements of head restraint geometry - the height of a restraint and its horizontal distance behind the back of the head of an average size man. Seat/head restraints with good or acceptable geometry are tested dynamically using a dummy that measures forces on the neck. This test simulates a collision in which a stationary vehicle is struck in the rear at 20 mph. Seats without good or acceptable geometry are rated poor overall because they can't be positioned to protect many people.
In the roof strength test, a metal plate is pushed against 1 side of a roof at a constant speed. To earn a good rating for rollover protection, the roof must withstand a force of 4 times the vehicle's weight before reaching 5 inches of crush. This is called a strength-to-weight ratio. For an acceptable rating, the minimum required strength-to-weight ratio is 3.25. A marginal rating value is 2.5. Anything lower than that is rated poor.
About Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan. Headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of approximately 600 dealers across the United States. Subaru boasts the most fuel-efficient line-up of all-wheel drive products sold in the market today based on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fuel economy standards. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation
