Do you own a Pontiac G8 GT? Do you live in Maryland? If you answered "yes" to both these questions, then we have the following to say: 1.) Congratulations on owning a beast of a car, and 2.) It's time to get out of Dodge, er, Maryland, before you start paying some serious fines.
According to this post on Jalopnik, a forum member by the name of Jackalope over at G8Board.com has a disturbing story: After being cited and ticketed $60 for illegal taillights on his G8 GT -- the factory-issued, Transportation Department-approved headlights, mind you -- said reader brought the case to court.
And the judge upheld the ruling.
Of course, the clear taillights on the G8 GT by themselves would cause issue, not having enough red area within the lights themselves. But that's why Pontiac installed reflectors in the bumper to provide additional light and bring the reflective requirements up to snuff -- something the Transportation Department agreed with when it gave the car the OK to be sold. And something the judge knocked down, favoring the opinion of one single policeman over both the manufacturing standard itself and the freaking DOT.
Of course, we haven't gone rooting around the Maryland court records to verify this went down as reported, but stranger things have happened in the history of jurisprudence -- go here to read the full story and figure out whether or not you believe it.