Through risk comes reward, or at least that’s the plan with this, the first all-new chapter in Winding Road’s Flip This Car saga since the ill-fated Subaru Legacy turbo graced these digital pages back in the summer. This ragtop is my car—my name is on the title and I’ll be the one digging it out of the ditch and footing the repair bill as I white-knuckle it through a Michigan winter. Actually, I believe this two-door, rear-wheel drive, 3000-pound V-8 droptop is the perfect car for winter despite what my friends, co-workers, family members, neighbors, impersonal acquaintances, strangers at the gas station, both my therapists, and anonymous teenagers in line at the local Gamestop think.
