Subaru has stayed well clear of trucks in the nearly 20 years since, focusing on improving its current offerings and doubling ...

Share Small trucks are on their way back. In 2021, Ford launched the Maverick; Hyundai, in turn, debuted the all-new Santa Cruz, which they insist is not a truck but a “sport adventure vehicle.”.

The Subaru Baja, produced between model years 2003 and 2006, was a light truck based on the Outback SUV, which gave it a distinct profile on the road with its pinched hood and bright yellow color ...

Subaru Baja (2003-06) Subaru. Subaru sort-of revived the Brat with the Baja in the early 2000s. It was an Outback with a truck bed cut out of it; Subaru insisted the truck needed four doors, which ...

The two-door Subaru BRAT, Japan's ute-like version of a compact truck, was created in response to the growing demand for smaller, compact trucks in the U.S. It wasn't built on a new platform.

Subaru may revive the Brat or Baja using Toyota’s next compact pickup truck platform. The rumored model could match Maverick and Santa Cruz trucks in size and positioning. Original Brat was sold ...

One does not need to be addicted to gasoline fumes to tell that Subaru does not offer a pickup. However, things used to look quite different in the early 2000s, when the Baja was around with its ...

Subaru today is all about safe, family-friendly all-wheel drive cars—and glorious rally sedans—but its early days were a bit more humble. Its first car, the 360, helped mobilize Japan after ...

Subaru pioneered the rough-and-tumble compact pickup with the BRAT in the 1970s and revisited it with the Outback-based Baja in the early 2000s.One could argue those vehicles were ahead of their ...

Before we get into the Subaru BRAT, let's discuss the phenomenon known as the mini truck. These compact, fuel-efficient trucks had been in the American market since the 1960s — Datsun's LG-220 ...