Junkyard Gem: 1982 Subaru BRAT
Subaru love is strong in Colorado, which means that many BRATs are kept alive until they are completely used up. Here's a good example of such a truck: this 1982 model in a Denver wrecking yard.
Subaru Brat
Pickups that blur the line between car and truck
The Honda Ridgeline isn't the first pickup based on a car platform, and it won't be the last.
Here's the story with the Chicken Tax
Quiz America's auto enthusiasts about the vehicles they most want to see in the US market, and for every one that doesn't respond with a French hot hatchback or some diesel-powered offering, there'd be at least three that ask for some small, imported pickup truck. That won't happen, though, and we have the Chicken Tax to thank.
Revisit the charms of the 1978 Subaru Brat
The Subaru Brat is the automotive equivalent of a teenager with a mullet: weird, a little reckless but brimming with enough self-confidence to make it cool.
One for the Gipper: Ronald Reagan's Subaru BRAT restored
Click above for a gallery of Ronald Reagan's Subaru BRAT
Mom, Apple Pie and SMART: Americanizing Germany's teeny, tiny import
Here's a concept of an Americanized new SMART lineup courtesy of designer, Mark Stehrenberger. Mark is with MSD, a Santa Barbara-based design research and development group. The folks at Auto Motor und Sport asked MSD to ponder the question of what would make SMART more palatable in the States. Stehrenberger responded with sketches of bigger versions of the already enlarged fortwo.