See, we're all excited now. I'd definitely consider one if I could at least get it with the Wrangler's six-speed manual and the Pentastar (they'll bolt up, right?); I wouldn't really expect diesel here. Thing is, though, I get this sneaking suspicion that the sides of the bed will be five feet high, rendering it…

@Slid Pissed Tossed Mazda3hatch sideways into a effin DITCH: I say we replace "Pussy Magnet Yellow" with "SCREAMING MOTHERFUCKER Yellow".

@MarxMarvelous: What are you telling us about yourself...?

@brick-geek: A fellow in the town I work for has had "ARRRGH" (not sure quite how many As or Rs) on his white Town Car for years. I asked him one day, "Pirate? Or a dentist or some such?"

@mangle2: There's nothing sexual about consuming or ingesting...

@Hombre3000: I was mainly joking around. The Mk2 cars are simple enough, and were proven enough by 1990, that I'm not surprised (although I am pleased) by how well yours is doing.

@smackela: Oh, okay, thanks for the clarification. He's a Jetta freak, and I just assumed the Golf situation was similar.

Well, wake me when it starts lunching transaxles.

@Hombre3000: If I remember correctly (going by the loudly-insisted statements of a Mk2-Jetta-obsessed friend), the first Puebla-built Golves and Jettae (not official pluralisations) we got in the States were for the '91 model year - making your '90 a German car (VIN beginning with WVW rather than 3VW). The factory's…

Great styling, great colour, great car. It'd look fantastic in my garage, I think, right next to the mustard-yellow 1800S that I've seen around Lowell... oh, and my newer, far-less-stylish Swedes. Maybe I've got some kind of Volvo problem after all - I couldn't afford to save this one, however much I'd love to... but…

Wing: possibly forgiveable. Exhaust: probably indicates that it's been beaten like a rented mule, so that's difficult to ignore. Gold grilles and Giant Tach: Bad things are in store. Rattle-canned engine bay: crack pipe at anything over three grand.

@Tommy Five: In all the driving I've done (in New England), I've only observed a few places where a speed limit has been lowered for a single corner or short segment of road - most of the time a dangerous corner will be marked with a suggested-speed sign (black on yellow rather than black on white) and an 'arrow'…

@smokyburnout: That might just make up for the number of silver ones that'll probably be out there.

@Tommy Five: But if the speed limit has been intentionally cut without a safety-related reason, it's obvious that the law in question needs to go away.

@clix: Well, red is a colour, although I'm not sure it totally fits the GT-R. Actually, it's one car that looks okay in white, but ehh.

@Side Euler: I'm not so sure about the sound of "108 Wolfsburg", though. Just not sold on that one. The 181 Cleveland (Taurus/Sable, X-Type, LS...) is sweet, though.

@Side Euler: My favourite is the legendary 141 Skövde.

@Greek: And, crucially, if you roll it over, there's no major loss. You're right, the problem here isn't the Kia, it's the idiot behind the wheel.

I'm sorry, there are colours in that list? Well, okay, there's blue. I'll give you blue.

I maintain that any minivan or station wagon with a folding rear seat is a good bet here. A full-size van will make you look suspicious, as will a Microbus (or an El Camino, for different reasons), but according to Richard Hammond, anyone in a Volvo estate looks like "a geography teacher". Definitely not a threat.