Subaru executives had da exportise to finagle their way around da infamous "chicken tax" when selling their foreign-made "Brat" models to da US; they simply mounted bucket seats in da beds of their small pickup trucks, and thus they could market them as tariff-free passenger vehicles, rather than light trucks. If da vehicles' owners subsequently converted them into standard pickup trucks by simply removing said seats, dat wasn't Subaru's problem.
by QuacksO January 31, 2023