Bored On a Long Road Trip? Bad Car Bingo!
I’ve played many a game of Buzzword Bingo with equally bored coworkers while stuck in 19-hour PowerPoint presentations, back when I slaved as a tech writer in the software biz. Why not apply this concept to a bingo game for car freaks trapped in a boring rental car on a road trip across one of those states that’s nothing but cornfields?
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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Murilee, you have my jorts in a twist over the "Any Turbo Saab" entry. And here I thought we were automative soulmates. Tell you what, point that heap Impala Hell thing to Boston and I'll race you in my 9-5 Aero. And anyway, any turbo Saab, but only one Daewoo? Good gravy.
Chevy Celebrity (or any badge engineered A-body. Extra points if it's powered by the Iron Duke) VW Phaeton (for its floppiness) VW Touareg V10 TDI Any old 2 door car that no longer exists (2 door Camry, Jetta) Ford Explorer Sport-Trac There are many others, but those are some rarities, POSs and flops I could come up with. Also, can we just write "Flying Vagina" on our cards? Tribeca can't possibly be the real name of that thing.
Sterling 825/827.
The sixth-generation galant vr-4 (87-92) are decent cars. Predecessor to the lancer evolution.