Pickup trucks ... Subaru wasn't the mass-market brand that appealed to every dog owner and college professor in the country. No, it made tiny little Japanese bubble cars and was hoping for some ...

well, we'll have to wait, but we could get the boxer-diesel Forester sometime in 2010. If, that is, Subaru gets the message (wink wink) that American ... carlike moves than truck-based rivals.

He did this in response to a trade war with the Europeans, who were in a snit because inexpensive American ... of a light truck in often peculiar ways. Which brings us to the Subaru BRAT.