You Can't Make This Stuff Up

My "Grand Am" piece on R&T yesterday didn't do any traffic. Which is to be expected, because it wasn't exactly business-as-usual auto-journo stuff. I was pleasantly surprised, however, to get very kind notes from seven or eight of my favorite colleagues offering positive thoughts and comments on the story. None of them managed to be mean-spirited enough to ask me if the basic premise was true... but just for the hell of it, I have a few links below to plead my case. The plural of anecdote is data, right? Right?
Navajo Police Kill Grand Am Driver
Reservation "Melee" Happens When Man Drives Grand Am Into Crowd
Only in New Mexico Could A 1999 Grand Am Make It Onto the "Ten Most Stolen" List
And, from another tribe entirely: