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The club for all Subaru owners in Cumbria UK , Organisers of SCOOBYFEST the UK`s largest Subaru Show.
Cumbria Katılım Ağustos 2011
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【STIギャラリー展示車情報】
▼今週末の展示車はこちら▼
sti.jp/news/detail/20…
Performance-B STI conceptの展示期間は4月26日(日)までとなっております。
この機会にぜひお越しください!
※STIギャラリーに駐車スペースはございません。お車でお越しの際は近隣のコインパーキングをご利用ください。ご協力のほどよろしくお願いいたします。




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It's not just the home grown drivers who are looking forward to 2027... it’s the co-drivers too. @scottmartinat was beaming when we told him the news 😁
#RallyScotland #WRC
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Big news! We’re incredibly excited for WRC’s planned return to the UK from next year 🇬🇧🏴
#FIA #WRC @OfficialWRC
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After seven years away, the World Rally Championship will return to the UK…
The forests of Scotland will come alive to Rally Scotland in 2027. The perfect backdrop with dramatic landscapes and iconic stages.
#WRC #RallyScotland
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He killed 542 men in 100 days without ever looking through a scope.
Then he disappeared back into an ordinary life — so ordinary that the world nearly forgot he had ever existed.
Simo Häyhä was small in stature — five foot three — stocky and quiet. His hands were calloused from farm tools, not polished by ceremonial sabers. In the rural southeast of Finland, near the village of Rautjärvi, he was known as a dependable neighbor. He hunted. He farmed. He kept to himself.
Nothing about him suggested legend.
Then came November 30, 1939.
The Soviet Union invaded Finland, beginning what would later be known as the Winter War. Moscow expected a swift campaign. The Red Army brought roughly half a million soldiers, along with tanks, aircraft, and artillery. They outnumbered Finnish forces by nearly three to one. On paper, it looked less like a war and more like an inevitability.
But snow does not follow paper calculations.
That winter was merciless. Temperatures dropped to minus 40 degrees. Engines froze. Metal stuck to bare skin. Forests swallowed sound. The Finns knew the terrain the way farmers know their fields and hunters know animal tracks.
Simo Häyhä was one of those men.
He had grown up skiing through those forests, reading wind and shadow, standing motionless until game appeared. When he joined the Finnish Army, he did not transform into something new. He simply applied the skills he had built over years to a different purpose.
Dressed head to toe in white, he vanished into the snowfields. He packed snow in front of his rifle barrel so the muzzle blast would not kick up powder and reveal his position. He held snow in his mouth to cool his breath, reducing the visible vapor that could give him away in the cold air. He lay still for hours, sometimes entire days, letting the forest settle around him.
He did not stalk.
He waited.
What made him especially dangerous was a choice most snipers would consider illogical.
He refused to use a telescopic sight.
While others relied on scopes, Häyhä used only iron sights — the simplest aiming system available. He believed a scope could reflect sunlight like a signal mirror. It required lifting the head slightly higher, increasing visibility. In extreme cold, lenses could fog or freeze. Iron sights were lower, sturdier, and more reliable.
He trusted his rifle and his eyes.
In fewer than 100 days of combat, he recorded more than 500 confirmed kills with his rifle. Some estimates place the number at 542. That figure does not include additional enemy soldiers he killed with a submachine gun in close combat.
Five hundred men. In forests locked in ice. In a war his country was not expected to survive.
The Soviets gave him a name: the White Death.
White Death.
Sniper teams were dispatched to hunt him. Entire units were tasked with finding one farmer in a white jacket. Artillery shelled forests where scouts believed he might be hiding. Officers warned soldiers against careless movement across open ground. The idea that one man could inflict such damage deeply unsettled them.
He was no longer just a sniper.
He became winter with a trigger.
On March 6, 1940, a Soviet explosive bullet — designed to maximize damage — struck him in the face. It shattered his jaw, tore through his cheek, and disfigured the left side of his face. Comrades found him unconscious, barely recognizable, and carried him from the battlefield, assuming he would not survive.
He fell into a coma.
Seven days later, he opened his eyes.
The day he regained consciousness was the day the war ended.
Despite overwhelming odds, Finland endured. The country lost territory but retained its independence. Häyhä, disfigured and permanently changed, survived the conflict that turned him into a myth.
Then he did something almost no one expected.
He went home.
No book deals. No speeches about heroism. No attempt to turn reputation into money. He returned to Rautjärvi, to fields and forests.

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【SUBARU HERITAGE SERVICE】
『ヘリテージパーツラインアップ』
「2026.02.20 更新情報:
初代インプレッサ(GC/GF)
パーツリスト更新しました。」
subaru.jp/dealerservice/…
『GCGF榛名オフ』を主催し5年間続けた目標の一つが、このようなパーツ再販に向けての皆の思いの一体化でした
#GCGF維持活動
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UK目線の
『初代インプレッサ モデル別 初心者ガイド』
"A beginner's guide to the First Gen Subaru Impreza Versions"
youtu.be/6A0iQ3vGSTQ?si… @YouTubeより

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【東京オートサロン2026】
\いよいよ開幕/
今年のSUBARU/STIブースでは、本日初公開のクルマを多数展示!
幕張メッセ 東ホール7のSUBARU/STIブースに、是非お越しください!
出展詳細は特設サイトをご確認ください。
#SUBARU #スバル #スバリスト #東京オートサロン #東京オートサロン2026 #SUBARUWRX #WRX #STI #WRXSTI #TAS #展示車 #展示会 #オートサロン #愛車 #車好きな人と繋がりたい #車好き #クルマ部 #車好き女子 #カーライフ #ドライブ #ドライブデート #車のある風景 #カスタムカー #カスタム好き #車いじり
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