Looks like the Mayan Apocalypse is in early this year.

At least it ain't beige.

Just a matter of time.

As someone who was producing children during the Previa era, the first thing that comes to my mind on these is their horrible crash test results (which was more important to me at that stage in the game than fun-to-drive). So if you find one to hoon, a helmet and possibly a roll cage might be called for; IIHS overall…

OCP runs the FBI! Just ask Dick Jones!

Wouldn't pedestrian crash standards make these unlikely on current cars? Or at least so watered down/padded/break-away to avoid being in-your-face from a pedestrian standpoint, so as to be unappealing to the buyer? Or maybe they could be armed with some type of release mechanism that could catapult a pedestrian up…

The movie "White Line Fever" came out at the height of the big rig/CB radio craze in the '70s. I happened to be 10 years old at the time, so I never actually got to see this movie, but this scene of the truck flying through what appeared to be a building (but which I now see is merely a sign/logo) was featured…

This is why I installed Hella Supertones; I tend to be the Lada driver in these situations, so I'd have probably voiced my displeasure with the A7's decision via an elongated 118 db blast, but I would have let him in and wouldn't have darted in to close the gap the first time behind the truck.

I dream of someday living in Marina City, and reacquiring my grandmother's '67 Dodge Polara from my cousin and backing it into an optimum space there so it's visible in all the tourist photos. I figure if I lived there I'd rely on public transit most of the time, so I could justify an 11-MPG 383 cubic inch V8 antique…

I followed up on a Volvo I was interested in once; supposedly from a doctor in the DC area (so I figured the low price could have just been because they had plenty of money). The name of the doctor matched one in the area, but I noticed the pictures were taken on a dealer's lot, and in one of the pictures you could…

The more Prii on the road, the less demand on the fuel supply, which means lower fuel prices...for us.

Agreed.

"Auburn Nightmist Metallic" - Offered for one year on the 2000 Chevy Impala; I've seen it on a few other GM vehicles of that era, but I'm only familiar with it from my Impala fixation of this period. When I picked up my Galaxy Silver one there was an Auburn Nightmist on the lot; I asked the salesman about it and he…

I have a similar problem, I drive a Jeep Patriot; I'd love to put a Canyonero badge on it, but it's about the smallest SUV around, and really doesn't do the name justice. So the people who would get the joke would also know it doesn't work in this situation.

I think the dump truck also played a part in things, in that it probably blocked the biker's view of the car that was turning left. Not saying the biker didn't run the light, and not saying the car that was hit should have been hanging out in the intersection trying to get through late, but I think if the dump truck…

That looks like a totally different person...do you think that could be her 36-year-old passenger instead?

I've seen all sorts of morning prep going on (women putting on makeup, men shaving with an electric razor, etc.), but the oddest was one morning when I was behind a guy on the Interstate, and I kept seeing some odd motion of the hand of the guy in front of me. He was doing something around his face, and I assumed he…

Just thought we needed a bridge between this story and the one that follows.

Something similar happened to my grandmother back in the '60s; she was in a '55 Chevy but running alongside a log truck when it lost it's load and dumped the logs on top of her car. She survived (albeit with long-term back problems), but when she died in the '90s one of the things I salvaged from her place was the…

Seems like I remember talking to a guy who dealt in old Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs back in the early '90s; wasn't the 8-6-4 system based on vacuum lines or something? I remember him saying a quick fix was to reconfigure the hoses and leave it in V8 mode all the time (which negated the fuel economy benefits, but kept…