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MetroMPG -- Here's a memorable rant about Subaru tweaking the design of the Brat to change its classification from *truck* to *car*:

Years ago, in a time before laptops and nipple piercings, Subaru built a puzzling truck thing called the BRAT. It was like a baby El Camino with two backward-facing plastic lawn chairs bolted in the bed that were meant to carry adventurous passengers or your friends who maybe had ingested a whole lot of "additives" and demanded to be driven around at high speed while they were peaking. This seating arrangement sounds insanely lawsuit-prone for the modern age, but trust us, back then when kids were given sniper rifles, dirt bikes, and switchblades for graduating from Mommy and Me Preschool, nobody paid any attention to this decapitation-waiting-to-happen seating arrangement. In fact, nobody paid any attention to the BRAT at all.

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