That guy seems like a real ass. Can’t wait to donate to whoever runs against him.

He hates the red states bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Or is too dumb to understand the blue states subsidize the the red states.

Dumb, evil, or both.

wild adventures in it (off roading within the San Francisco city limits, road trip to Death Valley in August).

These were basic cars with few frills and tons of charm. I’d love to have one some day.

To avoid the “chicken tax” import tariff on trucks, Subaru installed plastic jump seats in the bed so the BRAT could be considered a passenger car and get the much smaller tariff on cars.

I love these things. Back in my late teens a buddy had one and we had some

It the 70s Subaru decided they wanted to participate in the North American little truck market so they modified the existing GL/Leone into this little truck.

These came with a 1.6 or 1.8 power plant that made some noise and could move the vehicle at freeway speeds.

Notice the Kompressor badge? That denotes that this car’s engine has a supercharger. It’s a 2.3 liter 4 cylinder and makes 190hp. You could have a manual or automatic. They made an AMG model with a supercharged V6 that made 350 hp; big fun.

I’ve never driven one but quite like the looks.

While the L did stand for light, compared to a ‘96 Miata, it was portly. My ‘96 Miata weighed 2050 lbs (930 kg). An SLK weighed around 3000 lbs (~1400 kg). To be fair, the SLK has a metal folding roof and luxury stuff like power windows, AC, and sound deadening that my R Package Miata didn’t have.

The SLK (German acronym for Sports, Light, Compact) was born in the 90s when all the car companies saw what a smash hit the Miata was and thought “hey, we can do that too”.

The SLK 230 debuted in 1996 alongside its fellow German sports car competitors, the BMW Z3 and Porsche Boxster.

What a truly stupid man he is.

She’ll always have an asterisk next to her title.

I’ve been able to convince him a lap is more comfortable than cold sun.

Real time follow up

When will people notice the pattern that the economy and stock market perform better when Democrats are in power?

Can we normalize ridiculing these utter numbskulls? If you’re going to fear monger at least do in a way that doesn’t make you look utterly stupid.

Dream Bret would take this car on a road trip in Europe with a few track days for good measure. How fun would it be to power through Eau Rouge at Spa Francorchamps?