It’s awesome, just not $20k awesome. 

My friend Mike has one with jump seats and he replaced the Baja badge with a reproduction Brat badge :-P 

Subaru SVX, except with a turbo and a manual transmission option :-P Sort of an AWD big brother to the BRZ with weird windows. 

Yeah, used to work for Subaru. Their synthetic oil they sell at the dealerships is pretty high quality, they did tests of the synthetic oil that was available in the US and weren’t impressed with the quality or the price of some of it, there are some dealerships that overcharge for it but most of the ones I have…

Idemitsu makes most of the Subaru factory oils and such

This. If you enjoy doing something, do it. If you don’t, but someone else does, don’t crap on the thing that they enjoy doing just because you don’t like it. Let them have fun! 

I’d do a Land Cruiser or a Sequoia, you can get those within your 25k budget and have $ left! Or get a pair of 03-05 Range Rovers, that way you have something to drive when the auto shop class is fixing the other one :-P

Even looks like it’s available with the proper number of pedals! Too bad it’s way out of my budget :-P 

I have a friend in Seattle named Jamie who has a bunch of Subarus and an affinity for oddball old cars so it piqued my curiosity :-P 

I used to have a 1975 F100 4x4, 390 with a 4 speed manual. It only had the factory 18 gallon fuel tank (Plus some aux tanks that were full of old gas and rust) so with the tiny tank and 8mpg on a good day, you could climb a hill and literally watch the gas gauge drop. But it would burn the back tires through 4th gear…

Did this Jamie you speak of happen to have an ecclectic collection of old Subarus? 

Only one I have ever driven was a Countryman that was a ReachNow car in Seattle, and I drove it like a mile and a half, but OMG was it FUN! Well, about as much fun as one could have on Seattle surface streets :-P 

Whenever I think of overbadging I think of the 80s and 90s Mazdas that had like 5 different badges and they were pretty much all different sizes and fonts, so the back of the car ended up looking like a ransom note. The one I’m thinking of that my friend’s mom had, had a “Mazda” badge, a “323" badge (with a little…

I say just make it like a 7 speed with a low creeper gear that will work at idle speed so you can pretty much just let the clutch out and creep along in traffic. Reason I say 7 gears is that way you still have 6 to hammer through, versus having it be a 6 speed with a super low first. 

^THIS 

I know for a while you could get the TDI pretty much fully loaded and still have 3 pedals, they must be trying to re-capture the TDI heads that like rowing their own :-P 

I remember being out cruising once and this kid was all excited because his dad let him take his 65 Mustang out. He decides to be stupid and do a burnout in the parking lot, he’s sitting there smoking the rear tires when BANG... Dunno what happened exactly but all you heard after that was him crying “oh fuck oh fuck…

Set of spark plugs

My ex GF’s first car was a 1995 Eagle Summit, 1.8 5 speed, she loved that thing. It got totaled and the only thing her grandmother would give her $ to buy was a Hyundai or a Kia because of the warranty (“Used cars are just other people’s problems”), so she ended up with an automatic Accent, she said if it had been a 5…

I used to have a 1984 Subaru GL 4WD wagon with 340,000 miles on it. One of the front axles went to hell and I could not afford a replacement, so I knocked the outer joint off, bolted it back into the hub, and enjoyed having a RWD car with a front wheel ebrake. Until I was doing a burnout and tried to slam it into 2nd…