Car Throttle

GM has always had it's ups and downs, but to be honest, small economy cars have never been it's forte. Kia jokes aside, almost all of GM's compact cars have been pretty dismal in some way.  Even going back to the sixties, the Corvair was an admittedly sweet car, but became a drastic PR disaster thanks to "Unsafe at Any Speed," which centered around the fact that the Corvair was a rear-engined car with swing axles, which usually means instant death. Then there was the Vega, which was a turd that couldn't keep it's head (gasket) screwed on for long, never met a fluid it didn't like to leak, and had terminal rust problems.  Which was followed by the Chevette, which you could get with a 4-speed

Subaru enthusiasts in the US market have been getting the short end of the stick for the better part of 2 decades. The WRX debuted in Japan in 1992, and as the Impreza GT in Europe in the same year.  Despite the generally undeniable American propensity towards things that go fast, it would be another 9 years (2001) before we even got a taste of WRX on these shores.  And while we've continued to get WRX's (look at that, Subaru, Americans DO want cars that can go fast and do corners!) and hot-rod STi's, we've sorta been left out on the whole special-edition thing. I mean Europe's gotten the RB5, 22b STi, Prodrive P1, RB320, S203... you get the picture.  But as for the US market, the