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Subaru Impreza 555 - The head and the number

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Created on July 2, 2021

Reading time 3min

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Paul Krüger

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Jochen Van Cauwenberghe - Courtesy Goodwood Festival of Speed

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Jochen Van Cauwenberghe - Courtesy Goodwood Festival of Speed

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Ari Vatanen und Bruno Berglund bei der 1000-Seen-Rally 1993 in Finnland.

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Totale Dominanz: Subaru belegt die ersten drei Plätze bei der RAC Rally und wird Konstrukteurs-Chapion. Colin McRae gewinnt den Fahrertitel.

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Zur Feier der Weltmeisterschaft legte Subaru 200 Exemplare des "Impreza McRae" auf.

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Der Doppelsieg bei der Rallye Catalunya-Costa Brava 1996 macht den zweiten Konstrukteurs-Titel perfekt.

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Anlässlich des dritten Konstrukteurs-Titels 1997 entstehen 1998 424 Exemplare des heissen Impreza 22B STi mit 300 PS.

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In England erscheint aus demselben Anlass der auf 300 Stück limitierte "Impreza Terzo".

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Verhaltene Freude: Subaru gewinnt 1997 schon wieder, McRae und Co-Pilot Nicky Grist müssen sich aber mit einem Punkt Tommi Mäkinen geschlagen geben.

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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014 - Subaru Impreza 555 (1994) - in der klassischen Lackierung

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Summary

In Hollywood films, the number 555 stands for a fictitious telephone number. For rally fans, it belongs to Subaru like Martini to Lancia or Quattro to Audi. This short article looks back at the successful early rally years of the Subaru brand with sponsor 555 and shows impressions of that time in pictures.

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

There are numbers, starting numbers, that are so closely associated with a particular car that the mere mention of the digits makes all further explanations superfluous. Or does the number 722 not immediately make you think of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR that Stirling Moss drove in 1957? Just as the 43 can only mean one thing for NASCAR fans: Richard Petty, Plymouth Belvedere. For enthusiastic fans of wild four-wheel drifts over gravel forest roads, this unmistakable sequence of numbers has been 555 for almost 30 years. Explanation for outsiders: dark blue Subaru Impreza with bright yellow decor, driven by Colin McRae. The three-digit number was not actually the starting number, but the name of the main sponsor.

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