There’s a full history of the #SubaruJusty on OldMotors.net (link in bio) today - and it’s exactly the kind of car hardly anybody talks about. The Justy was, of course, just an economy car and widely considered cheap and disposable when it was new - the kind of car you’d buy over a 2-year-old used car mainly because it came with a warranty. But it turns out, the Justy was a very unusual machine - in typical Subaru fashion. The car was evolved from the tiny Subaru Rex kei car for the purpose of partially filling the huge gulf between the Rex and the mid-size (for Japan) Leone with an eye to exports. The 1981 Rex was Subaru’s first modern Kei - it abandoned all links with the old rear-engined Keis of 1958-80 (360, R-2, Rex Mk1) and instead used a modern front-engined, front-drive platform. The old twin from the Mk1 Rex was kept, but now longitudinal. Subaru provisioned for 4WD from the start, and by 1983 the Rex could be had with 4WD and a Turbo. A slightly larger engine was added for export, aimed at Daihatsu’s Domino and called the Subaru 700. If that car could sell, Subaru reasoned, so could a larger Rex. In 1982, Subaru stretched and widened the Rex platform into the Justy, and added the 1L EF10 triple in place of the Rex’s twin. The JDM Justy in 1984, and came stateside in 1987 - just as a wave of very cheap, very small cars - like the Yugo and Chevy Sprint/Suzuki Cultus were selling well. The Justy was regarded as pure cheap transportation until a year later, when 4WD was added. Now four years old, it was enlarged again and heavily refreshed for 1989, with updated styling and the option of a CVT similar to the ones used by DAF/Volvo. Americans wanted automatics, but the U.S. Justy had just 1,189-cc, which made a full automatic a slow boat to anywhere. The CVT, it was reasoned, was a better option, but not always durable. Alas, by 1989/90, such cars were no longer in demand - but if you wanted a small CVT 4WD car, it was the only game in town - the U.S. didn’t get Fiat Panda 4X4s. Justy sales continued, slowly, into 1994 before Subaru dropped the car, but survivors - mostly of the 5-speed variety - were quite hardy. This one’s a very rare CVT. https://www.instagram.com/p/CABayz0AVUd/?igshid=2dwmizh1vaig