Part of me pines for this, and part of me fears it will come out looking life a 3rd-gen Taurus wagon. Please, Jaguar, don't mess this up.

@Novaload Misses Murilee: You nailed it. Infiniti QX56, we're looking at you, though it burns our retinas.

Cayennamera?

Seeing it out in traffic on a real street—man, that looks evil. In a good way.

My son't former den leader drives a 1st gen Xb. But she also built a pinewood car with a plexiglass box mounted on top holding a live tarantula, so she gets the coolest mom award.

Little known fact: Ben Franklin has a sideline making Christmas wreaths, which he often gave to his friends. When guests admired these creations, the friends would proudly say that it was a wreath of Franklin.

Oh, how British they look encrusted in all that moss. This should have been cover art for a Beatles album or something.

@scottcom36 has Weekday DT's, Weekend OD's: Thank you. I'd forgotten the other gags. Great stuff.

Anybody ever seen "The Gods Must Be Crazy"? If not, rent it sometime. There's a scene where a Land Rover gets stuck in a river. The driver hooks up the winch to a high tree branch, starts it up, then gets distracted. Let your imagination run from there...

Not lucky—blessed.

@mricyfire: I remember helping my sister and brother-in-law move into their first apartment. As we pulled away from his parents' house in the rental truck, it hit—not an overhead limb—but a big, fat knob on a less-than-vertical tree trunk, punching a hole in the top right corner of the box.

@A strolling player: Impish, aren't they?

Too weird. This was my hate-to-love car in today's QOTD.

Residents of northwest NJ are familiar with Schooley's Mountain, a crazy steep stretch of Rt. 24 between Long Valley and Hackettstown. When I was a kid, we were driving down the steepest part, and a home oil delivery truck was struggling up. When it could go no farther, the front wheels lifted momentarily off the…

The same used car lot near me that had a Merkur XR4ti (recently sold, apparently) also has a Fiero GT with some kind of bizarro paint job on it, all blue streaky. And the headlights apparently don't retract any more; they looked comical peeking up out of the snow a few days ago.

NJ runs a statewide purchasing pool for police vehicles, and they must have gotten a deal on Durangos; they're all over the place.

I had often tried to imagine how this was done, but I had no idea. This could be a really cool way to do a reveal at an auto show—hours of buzz flowing from the floor, instead of minutes. As long as your concept isn't hideous.

@scrubnick: Makes sense, I suppose. Here in Jersey, if you say 95, 80, 1&9, 46, 22, etc., there's little doubt what you're talking about. If there's any ambiguity, I think we just tend to say "Route" before the number.

@HDC: Not a grammar thing, just a curiousity thing, as nobody else I know of does it, except possibly the Brits. No different than going to the deli counter and ordering a pound of "the" salami, I guess.

@BullLifter: Why do Californians put "the" in front of their highway numbers? Just curious.