not sure if i’m a petrolidiot or a complete “hose-brain” I once drove off with the pump hose still in. tore it clean off from the gas station ceiling!
(2nd Day Replate)
ROLLS 'ROIDS - A condition affecting those owned by a luxury car who can’t stop sitting in it because they know the minute they leave the car it will acquire minor body damage costing the price of a new Tata.
DENSA I love it! I would buy that if someone made a bumpersticker out of it!
Do you have Subris if you spend MONTHS searching for a Legacy wagon because the Legacy line has been tainted by oversized tires, brush-guarded fog lamps and :shudder: automatics?
Or is it just a more severe form of the disease? 
Vannoyance – The feeling one has when stuck behind a mini-van that’s hogging the road and going 10 miles an hour under the speed limit because the baby is napping.
Semistrocity – The truck behind you on the highway that’s so big that all you can see in the rear-view mirror is his grille.
I sent these to your regular email address, but I thought I would repeat them here:
A FORDABLE HOUSING: A valve cover adaptable to Escapes, Explorers, and Expeditions.
CIVICS CLASS: Lower income group who cannot afford an Accord.
AUDI DUTY: A short red-headed freckle-faced kid’s commitment to a German luxury car. (Might only be appreciated by those over 60.)
CAMRYDERIE: Nice people getting together to help each other with stuck gas pedals.
JETTASIN: Cheating on your wife in the backseat of a Volkswagen.
PEACE ACCORDS: Hondas driven by parents who left their children at home.
OUTBACK: Where you hide your old beat up Subaru station wagon when your rich friends visit.
Auto-erratic: The trajectory of the car in front of you when the driver tries to answer his cell phone and drops it on the floor.
EDIPUS REX
EDIPUS LEXUS…WHEN YOU WANT TO SLEEP WITH THE MOTHER WHO DRIVES THE CAR!
van-ity…when you think you look cool driving a van
Detroitus–a reference to the inferior quality automobiles that were made by the big three US automakers back in the 1970s/80s or so.
H.R.V. - Hummer Recovery Vehicle (a.k.a. Jeep) This refers to the H2 and the H3. My Jeep and i are always willing to help stranded Hummer drivers.
A new automotively-inspired word is “lease-ectomy.” That is the operation your wife makes you get to stop leasing expensive high end Lincoln’s or Cadillac’s, etc.
Randall Vockroth
313 York Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
In-Acura-Cy: What you should expect when you call in to Car Talk!
I suggest the word [b]Nagravator[-b]: One who nags, aggravates and directs the driver of an automobile while sitting in the passenger seat.
Toyotaled - what the insurance company calls your car after the accelerator sticks and you hit a tree.
Lexus-Nextus: The urge to buy the latest model Lexus, or other luxury car.
That’s old joke. I thought it was clever when I first made it up – until I discovered that a few hundred thousand other people made it up independently of me.
Not only for cars:
Necessity Creep: The tendency of most Americans to exaggerate their needs. Some examples: a minivan because you have a big family (= 2 kids); a Jeep with 4 wheel drive, because you live in Somerville (that is, in the North, but in an urban area). Also applies to taking out a $800,000, 1% down mortgage for a home with 30 bathrooms for you, your scrawny girlfriend, and her Siamese cat.
Only for cars:
Butt-sniffer: someone who tailgates for no apparent reason, that is, on the highway with plenty of opportunity to pass the car in front of them. Probably unconscious and probably caused by an innate reflex to follow others.
priumentia- the belief of one that a prius will do 105 mph
priusistic- the belief of one that no other vehicle on the road compares to their prius (not even a ferrari)
Sin-chu-wuss- this term applys to many automotive repair services. Any preventative repair that is inspired by a main repair is to be referred to as a sinchuwuss service. Sinchuwuss is also the prefix to the term “yadda-doo”. Used in a sentence: Sinchuwuss changing the timing belt, yadda-doo the water pump too.
BMW- Bavarian Money Waster
Feces- the presence of multiple Ford Focus.
GMC stands for Garage Mechanic’s Companion