Add to that the fact that they allowed stations like KDKA (Pittsburgh - first commercial station in the US) and WACO (Waco, TX — because come on. If the call letters spell out the home city, you let them have it.) along with a few others to slip past the rule and it's a fun game.

I have a hypothesis about the NP votes:

With mixed driving (about 50/50 city/highway) my wife and I manage around 32-33 mpg in our 1.6 manual soul. It's pretty damned good.

For some reason there are about a dozen 2004ish explorer sport tracs in my neighborhood. So most of those just to get rid of them.

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: