When you ask someone what their dream car is, they'll give answers such as the Lamborghini Aventador, Bugatti Veyron, or the Ferrari 458, which are all good choices. Most everyone's dream car is some kind of exotic, including mine, which is a Pagani Huayra. The Huayra is, in my opinion, the most beautiful car ever made, and it's got a 700 hp V12 which also makes it probably the best sounding car ever made. But since I'm probably never going to drive one, much less own one, I decided to come up with some sort of attainable dream car.
For a while it was a Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ, which is still one of my favorite cars to this day, but then I saw the Subaru Brat for the first time in this article and I was hooked. Ralph Nader would hate this car; it's the definition of Unsafe at Any Speed. The NHTSA would give this car a negative safety rating. Even mentioning it to your insurance company would cause them to hang up on you. Businessweek called it the 18th ugliest car ever. Despite all of this, it is perhaps one of the most fun cars to be made ever.
Not only does it have four-wheel drive, it also has a four-speed manual and jump seats in the bed so it's technically a passenger car. How can it possibly get better? It's not quick by any means, but that won't make much difference because you're not going fast off-road anyway. It doesn't even need speed because it's dripping with character. The Brat is a car that doesn't give a shit about safety, refinement or speed; it exists purely for fun and positivity. Like the Mazda Miata, it's hard to be angry or upset in one.
