I love Subaru because it’s a case where the stranger car won out. As Mitsubishi has long given up on the Evo, it’s the WRX and STI that endure, weird warbling flat-four engine and all.

Welcome back to Auto Archives, the show in which we dive into my personal collection of Car Styling magazine back issues. These issues are packed with never-uploaded-online pictures, sketches, and interviews. I wish I had time to go through every page.

Subaru carved out a name for itself in rallying’s 1990s and 2000s era, a pipsqueak automaker dominating what was then the top Group A class. It was both a champion, the establishment, and a perpetual underdog.

-Raphael Orlove

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