My bank account weeps in anticipation.

Looks like there are harness tie-in points on the front fenders.

What could possibly go wrong?

My understanding is they rejigered People's Curse so you really have to piss *everyone* off to have the car completely destroyed.

I think they've moved to a tiered system wherein *something* is done to the winning(?) car and the severity is based upon the portion of the field that voted for it.

My preference is for a set of paper maps and someone in the passenger seat who knows how to read them (yes, I know how to read maps myself but it's not really the best idea to do so while simultaneously driving in heavy traffic).

Barring that; I tend to use a combination of preemptive Google street view to find landmarks, dead reckoning, and blind dumb luck to get where I'm going. It works surprisingly well. Though I do occasionally end up in some "interesting" places.

If I actually need to get somewhere in a reasonable amount of time, and I'm driving solo; then I will resort to using GPS Navigation.

Another, often overlooked, fun fact about the Mayan calendar; it probably doesn't end with the 13th b'ak'tun. That's just the last one we have thanks to a bunch of overzealous Christian missionaries who determined the Mayan texts to be satanic and decided to burn most of them. Pretty much everything we know about the Mayan calendar comes from a handful of codices smuggled out by one priest who didn't have his head up his ass.

I'm still putting my money on "human idiocy" for what causes the next mass extinction event.

I had to vote for the Bee; it's the most complete package of what Hooniverse stands for.

It's got the "cheap thrills" aspect from the Corvair; it's got the road trip stories, albeit slightly less epic, of the Zyncro; and it has a racing pedigree which wouldn't land it in the glue factory.

Don't forget:
6) Formula 1 V10 rear seat armrest.

Since I don't know what's coming I can't say the ZomBee has my vote just yet. I can say it has a commanding lead right now and it's going to take quite some doing for an upset.

In addition to the aforementioned toilet paper shoes and sunglasses are two places I don't even attempt to save money.

I've got bad knees so shoes with good motion control are essential for walking any sort of distance and I have to replace them fairly regularly. Not a cheap proposition but still cheaper than the custom orthotics I was told I was headed for if I didn't change my footwear (prior to this I had been wearing the same pair of shoes for over four years).

With the sunglasses; macular degeneration is pretty much guaranteed for men in my family (my dad and uncle both have it, my grandfather and his brother were also diagnosed, my great grandfather was reportedly blind by 60), one of the only things proven to delay onset / slow development is to wear sunglasses in bright sun. Combine that with some of the horror stories I've heard from Iraq veteran friends about what cheap / fake sunglasses did to people over there*, I'll spend the money.

*Some of the Iraqi troops stationed with them wore sunglasses which did nothing more than darken things, no actual UV protection despite stickers that claimed it. The result was to dilate the pupil and let *more* harmful rays in so you had 30 year old guys who were pretty much blind with cataracts.

I live in the middle of nowhere, center of everywhere, so in order to buy or do pretty much anything I'm going to be driving for a couple hours and good driving shoes really help. Especially when you don't have cruise control. Problem is, I've also got wide feet so finding any shoes that fit right is a pain, let alone specialized driving shoes. As a result I've got a pair of Ferrari branded Puma Futurecats (they were a gift), a pair of Rockport driving mocs, and a pair of Pilotis.

The Futurecats are far and away the best of the bunch for driving but they're way too narrow for my feet so I can pretty much only walk from the house to the car in them. The split-rolled heel really works well, helps to stabilize the foot in driving position while still making for easy transitions and the sole is super thin in the ball-toe area so pedal feel is excellent.

The Rockports kind of suck to be honest. They're better than my normal walking around shoes but not as good as the others.

The Pilotis fall somewhere in between and for a "normal" width shoe they're pretty wide, I can actually walk in them. The spherical heel makes for quick, smooth, transitions but it also means there's no built-in stability to the shoe so you have to keep your foot upright yourself. Doesn't sound like much, but after a couple hours of highway driving they're noticeably more fatiguing than the Pumas.