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.

It also gets the same grille as the Subaru GL Wagon, the same base car for Travis Pastrana's Family Huckster, the star of Gymkhana 2022. The EJ20-swapped Brat's interior likewise looks pristine.

Back when Subaru sold several variations of the Leone in the United States and called every one "the Subaru," a four-wheel-drive version with a small truck bed ...

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The BRAT's spiritual successor came along in 2003. Like its old grandpappy, the Subaru Baja was based on a wagon – this time the Outback – and featured an extended rear overhang to make space ...

This electrified 1980 Brat is going to bring back the love. The Subaru Brat you see here was built by the brothers at Flash Drive motors, and they’re understandably proud of it.

The idea of a Subaru compact pickup was once again revived in 2002 in the form of the Baja. Like the BRAT, the Baja was based on an AWD wagon, in this case, the highly-successful Outback.

The BRAT was produced from 1978 to, surprisingly, 1994, though only imported to the United States through 1987. The BRAT used the same AWD system as the Subaru Leone.

Related: 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.

This particular Brat was the upper-level GL trim, which came with a 1.8-liter, four-cylinder boxer engine, butterfly t-tops, a tilting steering wheel and all of the available stock gauges.

Given that we have a while before the mercury drops, though, maybe you should buy this 1979 Subaru Brat out from under me — you'll probably start working on it before I can, and that means this ...

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 ...