Given that we have a while before the mercury drops, though, maybe you should buy this 1979 Subaru Brat out from under me — ...

It May Not Be The BRAT Return Subaru Fans Wanted. The Subaru BRAT was a light-duty pickup sold in the United States between 1978 and 1987, and it’s set to make a comeback for the modern era.

Here's a funky Subaru pickup truck from the freewheeling 1980s. With a 73-hp flat-four, it's not fast but is still fun. This one is from the BRAT's last year in the U.S. Bi-drive Recreational All ...

D espite being pretty short-lived, it's hard to forget the Subaru BRAT. Produced from 1978 to 1994 (but only sold in North America until 1987), the BRAT was a very distinctive pickup truck at the ...

The seats in the bed on today’s Nice Price or No Dice Brat aren’t just for terrifying passengers, they were once Subaru’s way to get around the U.S. import tariff commonly known as the ...

The Subaru BRAT pickup truck was a cool little mini truck in the late 1970s and 1980s, but it was unceremoniously discontinued. Here's what happened.

Last year, Subaru doled the (old) BRAT a larger engine and a dual-­range transfer case. For 1982, it all comes together. The bolstered powertrain, the shapely sedan's front half, ...

Subaru had a solution for this costly hurdle in the form of rear-facing jump seats in the bed of BRAT, allowing the BRAT to qualify as a passenger car with merely a 2.5 percent tariff. What a fun ...

The BRAT was classified as a passenger car because Subaru preferred to pay a 2.5-percent import tariff, not the 25-percent “Chicken Tax” protectionist import tariff on light trucks.

The Subaru Brat you see here was built by the brothers at Flash Drive motors, and they’re understandably proud of it. “The Brat is already such a unique vehicle,” said James Fleischman, one ...

Subaru got around the tax by bolting a pair of rubber seats into the bed of what was a farming truck in Japan, then called it a car, er, Brat. It went for $4,900, at least $1,000 cheaper than it ...

Here's a funky Subaru pickup truck from the freewheeling 1980s. With a 73-hp flat-four, it's not fast but is still fun. This ...