Buick Electra

Sometimes online news sites can build complete stories--almost entirely hypothetical--around a single factoid. This is one of those stories. The factoid is that General Motors registered its intent to use the name Electra on a product in the category of "Motor land vehicles, namely, automobiles, sport utility vehicles, trucks, vans, engines therefor and structural parts thereof." In other words, it may at some point build a car that carries the model name Electra. It hasn't done so since 1990, when the final car carrying the fabled Electra 225 name (perhaps better known as the "Deuce and a...