This story includes renderings of a fictional Subaru Baja made by Theottle that are neither related to nor endorsed by Subaru.
For the first time in what feels like a long time, small, unibody pickups are having something of a moment in North America . But that raises an important question: Who else should be making a small pickup?and the Santa Cruz. Neither is an unqualified success, but both have a lot of interesting qualities, and their sales figures suggest that there’s a hunger in the market for small, lifestyle-oriented pickup trucks.
Few automakers, though, have made small pickup trucks quite as interesting as Subaru. Between the Brat the Japanese automaker has proven that it knows how to make a really interesting, if not always spectacularly practical, pickups.Enter, the internet. YouTube channel, Theottle, has taken it upon itself to virtually modify, stretch, and massage the Subaru Crosstrek to find one possible answer for the question: What if Subaru made a new Baja?