With temperatures at 140 degrees, our favorite NASCAR driver might end up on the dinner table instead of beside it.

Seriously now, how long can you survive at 140 degrees. Obviously NASAR drivers can for quite a while. But the complaints are starting to heat up. What do you think? Are these high-paid drivers that, along with other sports, just have to put up with one of the casualties of the sport? What would we say if football players started to complain about helmets or shoulder pads not being cushioney enough? I say, take the heat, make a change, or get out of the oven.

Usually the school officials at Oceanside, California hold a series of mock deaths around teenage drunk driving. The whole student body knows about it, accepts it, and you would think look forward to it as the Grim Reaper pulls students out of class to participate.

Not so this year. This year the evens were hush-hush, with a select group of student participants, total support from the local sherrifs department, students nearly scared the death out of some of their classmates. Can you imagine the hysteria caused if you were to see your best friend sprawled across a car, full of blood, assumed dead, and then a death sheet covering you?

All I have to say, is they got what they wanted. To scare kids to death. In my neck of the woods that is borderline child abuse. I sure hope they got parental consent.

Check out the video at Drunk Driving Lessons

Where would you go for a hybird car? First of all, I found a pretty cool Website www.conceptcarz.com that has some great wright-ups on cars. I highly recommend this site and will be pointing you there for one of my picks.

Leave it to BMW to put something out that I would actually drive. Not only does it have some great looks but has some nice features to boot. Were else can you find a car maker that sticks to elegance and sportiness in one package.

Check out the BMW X6 Concept

But if you want to see the real deal, head over to BMW X6

Give it a whirl:



I watched this concept car video a couple of times and my comments / opinion seem to follow right in suite with many of the current 376 comments.

Comments range anywhere from 'what a joke' to 'I love this car'. But my favorite, and actually rolled through my mind was this car seemed to pop out of the TV show Teletubbies. You can hate them or love them but my recent comment will stand.

We need these cars to get on the road to work out the kinks, find what works, and see if they are durable enough to last. Unfortunately I think car makers will need to pay someone to give them a whirl as I think they will be much more trouble at first than we imagine. I also wonder what new power sources will come along. Or will we have a battery pack in the back that reminds us of the Ford Pinto days where we expect it to blow at any time?

You need to check out this article: Pricey fuel? Try these fantastic 'green cars'

And I ask, how many of us are ready to plop into one of these e-cars? Completely battery-driven, with a few more options, this bubble of a car just might show up on the streets soon. And with the current gas prices I say it is high time we start pushing the envelope and develop some real on-road prototypes to work out the kinks. Do we really care if these cars only get you to and from work on a single charge? I'm sure that will change in the future as battery technology evolves. Let's just start plugging into electricity. And let's make use of the Sun while its still hot!

Head over to Nissan for a fun view of this concept car. www.nissan-global.com/EN/PIVO2

If anything, it's fun to imagine yourself as a James Bond 007 type. Well maybe not quite!

• You need to CARRY 6 or more passengers
• You need to PULL 6 or more horses
• You need to IMPRESS your friends
• You WANT to make friends in the country
• You're heading to the rodeo and JUST CAN'T take the speck car
• You NEED 2,000 pounds of food to feed your horses, chickens, ducks, dogs, and cats JUST FOR a WEEK
• You travel 10 minutes JUST to hit a paved road
• You LIKE taking up 1 and a half lanes in the city
• You LIKE taking up 4 parking spaces
• You LIKE looking down on everyone on the highway

Rodeos are starting up this week and I'LL be taking the TRUCK

So why would you not care about fuel prices?
You fill in the blank and send them as a comment.

Yup! my next truck

Changing a tire by Saab:



In an effort to either sell more Saab cars, or possibly even just educate car owners, Saabusa.com has a nice video on how to change the tire on a car. Now, I only present this as a public service, don't get on my for the female who delivers the message. I do believe everyone should know how to change a tire. It is one of the easiest things to do and can save you not only embarrassment but a hefty service charge call.

How to change a tire:

• Get a Sabb
• Get some high heel shoes
• Jack up a car safely
• Get jack
• Get spare time
• Get lug nut wrench
• Park car on level ground
• Put car in park
• Take off hubcap
• Remove plastic lug nut caps
• Take off lug nuts (half turn)
• Put brick in place
• Put jack under car
• Don't' get under car
• Lift jack high enough to release car
• Take off all lug nuts
• Pull off tire
• Put on new tire
• Put lug nuts back on
• Tighten lug nuts
• Lower jack
• Put everything back in trunk

Head over to saabusa.com/saabcasts for more videos.