My wife had an 05 bug convertible and those lights... ugh!

I believe there are at least two in Mooresville, NC. Granted, that's home to a bunch of NASCAR shops so trading the Escalade for one of these is probably more common here than elsewhere. But I have seen a silver one and a black one with chrome wheels.

Coming here from Jalopnik, all I have to say is that it couldn't have happened to a better car:

It was March of 1995. I was a junior in high school. I had had my license for only a few weeks and my mom mentioned seeing an old Firebird off poplar tent road in Concord. I had about $1500 saved up from my job at the Taco Bell and we went to take a look.

I read the article on the Porsche. Beautiful. It reminds me of this one, featured about 2 1/2 years ago. Also — I've noticed that sports cars that are engineered for a life of hard driving tend to be good for tons of miles. Look at Irv Gordon's 3-million mile Volvo P1800.

I was considering changing my name to Rusty Butts and singing country songs about NASCAR...

That looks an awful lot like a Cleveland...

I would say that your headline photo is probably best — A GM J-body. Can be had for a few hundred bucks in running condition, have engines and transmissions that seem never to die until they're somewhere over 180k miles and they just decided to give up the head gasket (if it's the 2.0 or 2.2,) or spin rod bearings,…

No words are necessary:

I signed up to the Charlotte event. It's only a 25 minute drive from me and I can't afford either the Focus ST or the Fiesta ST as yet.

My wife and I cross-shopped the Cube before buying the Soul. It was nearly impossible to find a 6-speed manual and even then the only one in the area was white. With the Soul, we spent about $3000 less, got the car and color we wanted, and are generally satisfied.

I submit for your approval, the Greed Deuce:

Reference.com says that synonyms for "Tasteful" are "elegant, chic, becoming, or refined."

This is the second time Johnstown (my old hometown) has made Jalopnik in the past year. The last one was for the painted roadkill on Franklin St, which happens to intersect with Goucher st.

It can be done:

I am irked that I somehow lost my author status but whatever...

When I was about 14, in the spring of 1993, my dad worked for a car dealer that specialized in "gently used exotics." He would go to auctions and haul back a load of 9 cars. Most of the time, he was pulling some Benzes or the occasional Porsche. Instead of parking at the truck stop 4 miles from home and walking, he…

I'm with the Cooper crowd. My sister had an 05 Mini Cooper S with some work done to it — smaller blower pulley, bigger injectors, JCW springs that lowered the car about 1", extrude-honed intake, etc... and it was the best handling car I've ever driven. Hands down — there was an on-ramp near my old apartment that was…

The LYNX lines definitely need to expand. As someone who had to use the CATS buses to get to work for a while — from University City to Carowinds — I don't actually have the right words to explain how much this is true.