Car WTFs
Driver Shows Up Inside Vehicle Six Hours After Crash
A late night vehicle crash, and the driver is nowhere to be found. This isn’t an uncommon occurrence. In fact, I’ve had friends that have pulled this maneuver to weasel out of a DUI. If you aren’t badly hurt – but your car is – you get away long enough to sober up, only to re-emerge later claiming to have no idea why your car was found upside down in a cornfield. While you can still be on the hook for some penalties, the dreaded DUI is off the table.
That’s why first responders to a crash in Dayton, Ohio recently weren’t that surprised when they found a Chevy Impala crashed at 3 a.m. into a cemetery fence on New Year’s Day with no one inside. A 90 minute search of the car and the area turned up nothing. But where the story takes a turn is when the car was taken to a towing company’s lot.
While opening the door to place debris inside six hours after the crash, the tow yard worker heard cries from inside the car. The car’s elevated position allowed the worker to see the driver crammed underneath the car’s dash.
Obviously, the incident is being investigated. This was either the worst first responder crew on the planet, or the guy found his way back to the car after sobering up. Remember, the accident occurred at 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day…and it just so happens that the tow yard was only 500 yards away from the crash site.
If drinking was involved, the guy is lucky he was able to escape into the cemetery he crashed into, instead of finding it to be his permanent residence. But, we’ll let the investigation play out to see what really happened. What are your thoughts?
Many of us thought that the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was about as intimidating as a car could get. After all, people couldn’t hardly get them off the lot without crashing them when they first came out. Then Dodge upped the ante with the new Demon. But aside from the raw power, there are some other interesting aspects of the new Demon.
Check out the video below for a full rundown of just how unique this car is.
Think you finally have your Mercedes names mastered? Well, a new challenge appears to be coming, friend.
How to now identify Mercedes models by name
Some moves in the northwoods of Canada by the brand appear to signal a change in the naming conventions that will be used for Mercedes and AMG models. Candian trademarks have been filed for A 40, CLA 40, SLC 40, SLC 50 and GLE 50 in addition to CLA 53, G73 and S73.
If this proves true in the states, it would signal an end to the rule of two digits for Mercedes, three-digits for AMG counterparts. The new world would be two digits, ending in a “0” for Mercedes, and two digits ending in a “3” for AMG. This supports rumors of an AMG ‘73’ model with a hybrid powertrain.
While this change isn’t terribly difficult to comprehend, it certainly makes things interesting when comparing legacy and upcoming Mercedes models. There are a lot of numbers to keep straight, and a lot of explaining to do. And the letter and number combos leave something to be desired in terms of cachet.
It makes one appreciate the simplicity of giving each vehicle an actual name, like the domestic manufacturers do. Sure, that’s how we ended up with the Chevy Nova, but what are you going to do? There are only so many names, surely one for an automobile would end up meaning “no go” in some language, right?…
I like my car. It’s a 2011 Toyota toaster, I mean Camry. If you made a list of everything a car has to do, the Camry would check all the boxes. It gets me from point A to point B with the consistency a learning golfer would envy. It’s a toaster. You put in the bread, choose your level of toastiness, push down the thingy and then wait for it to pop up. But there is one interesting thing about my car. The shifter. That’s it up there. That is definitely not conventional at all. So, what’s with Toyota’s weird shifter pattern? (more…)
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