This is a Toyota Starlet, the last rear-wheel-drive economy car that Toyota sold here in the US, slotting in the range below the Corolla. And here it is flying through the air.

Car designers figured out in the 1960s that front-wheel-drive is simply the best way to package an economy car for maximum interior space. Who cares? Rear-wheel-drive is a lot more fun, as this burnout-happy Toyota Starlet proves.

Arizona's controversial new Illegal Immigrant law is gaining national attention. Also drawing attention is today'sNice Price or Crack Pipe Starlet GT that's claimed to be here legally, but looks foreign enough to elicit demands of your papers please.

We're pretty sure that's the late rally monster Ove Andersson getting all sideways in a growling '82 Starlet, although it's possible that Toyota honored the Starlet's utter cheapitude by substituting Joe "Over" Andersson, Wisconsin dirt-track racer, for this ad.

You don't see many Starlets on the street these days, and they're rarer still in the boneyard. Mike 'Clunkbucket' Bumbeck drives a Starlet, so I called him the moment I spotted this one.

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. I've got Colorado photographs aplenty, so get ready for high-altitude survivors!