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Why do some carshades (those cardboard things you stick behind your windshield) warn you DO NOT USE WHILE DRIVING?
Do you think Houdini ever locked his keys in his car?
Does an electric car run faster in an electrical storm?
If the front of your car says "DODGE", do you really need a horn?
If you replaced the headlights in your car with strobe lights, would it look like you were the only one moving?
If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why do we notice the keys in the ignition only the second the car door is slammed shut?
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
Why do we say a car is traveling down the road? Isn't it really traveling on the road?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why is it that the first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes?
What is it about being inside vehicles which entices people to probe the darkest regions of their nostrils? Do these people believe all cars come with one-way glass?
Why isn't the steering wheel in the MIDDLE of the car?
Why, during rush hour, do most drivers use words that start with F?
Why does the person driving always get to choose the radio station?
Is there any scientific proof that those little windshield wipers on car headlights are worthwhile?
Is the best way to be a leader with a large following, just to obey the speed limit on a winding, two lane road?
If, according to your bumper sticker, 'Your other car is a Porsche', why are you driving that piece of junk that you've got the sticker on?
Why don't we keep gloves in the glove compartment?
To save money, if you are stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, should you turn your engine off and let the other cars push you?
Why do all the perfect drivers always seem to be in the back seat?
They say that into every life some rain must fall, but why is it always when our car windows are down?
Shouldn't car dealers issue a coathanger with a new set of car keys, for the inevitable?
It was once said that if we had a powerful car we could pass anything except a petrol station. So why, now that we have powerful cars and kids, can we pass everything except McDonalds?
Where does the Tire Tread go?
Why are cars called cars?
For people who never use it, why doesn't someone come up with a dust cover for the turn signal lever?
Why is the car always out of gas when we're in a hurry?
Isn't it funny how one minute life can be such a struggle and the next minute, you're just driving real fast, swerving back and forth across the road?
When you're buying a used car, shouldn't you punch all the buttons on the radio? After all, if all the stations are rock and roll then isn't there a good chance that the transmission will be shot?
Why do people spend extra money for personalized license plates just to let us all know that they can't spell?
Why do gas gauges spend so much time on full, then suddenly drop fast?
Why is there always a car riding your tail when you're slowing down to find an address?
Why do we still measure the speed of a car by the number of horses it takes to pull it?
Why do people in a convertible with the top down, have air fresheners hanging from their rear-view mirrors? Just how powerful do they think those things are anyway?
Why aren't cars equipped with ejector seats for back-seat drivers?
Why is it that car manufacturers spent many years designing vehicles with smooth sleek lines, then people put bike and ski racks on the roof and add hundreds of pounds of drag?
Isn't the main difference between pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, the fact that pickup owners admit theirs are trucks?
If a car turns into a driveway, can you drive on it?

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