20 Years Ago
January 2004: 106 pages, $4.99
Several months before, Editor-in-Chief David Freiburger had written, “There’s no reason HOT ROD shouldn’t cover significant sport compacts,” reasoning that the magazine had featured “the full spectrum of homegrown automotive tinkering for 55 years.” Running a Ford versus Subaru road test on the cover (photographed by Wes Allison) put that reasoning to the test; and readers were, as you’d expect with 20 years of hindsight,