I've seen some BRATs up close and personal, I really like the funky handles for the jump seats in the back, the grips look like the same thing they put on Huffy BMX bikes in the 80's. Back in the day they looked like a fun little rig, hard to imagine they made more horsepower than the Tercel... Now they just look like a death-trap. It would be a fun little rig if there weren't texting drivers in giant SUV's all over the roads... BRAT is actually an acronym: Bi-drive Recreational All-terrain Transporter.
Jalopink did a story on them a while back:
http://jalopnik.com/i-spent-the-day-wit ... 1735171767