Showing posts with label prom rides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prom rides. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2012

When the Trip to the Prom Goes Wrong

Continuing the coverage of #sweetpromrides. For parents out there, this is what it might look like when you loan the family van out to the kids to take to the prom:

Ouch. A nice full-body scratch.

Forget the Limo, Ride in a Fire Truck to the Prom

Here's a #sweetpromride
Because we are both from New Jersey, Mathew and I took limos to our proms and then had them take us down the shore for our post-prom festivities.

But as we talked about in this week's podcast, we loved this column by WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger about the oddball rides that some teens choose for the prom instead of the traditional limo.

For us, what you ride in reflects who you ware as much as your clothes, so arriving at the prom in something that is unique appealed to us. So we are asking folks, if you could go back and go to the prom again, what would be your ride? Check out the conversation on Facebook and Twitter and tell us what would be your #sweetpromrides.

A Podcast Full of Oddball Rides and Rich, Corinthian Leather

Things continue to look rich for the auto industry, with new estimates putting overall car sales up near $14.3 million, capping 3 years more than 10% growth.


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Who's buying all those new cars? Baby boomers, who mostly likely still have a little equity in their homes.

Along with the millions of new cars being sold are millions of terrifyingly dangerous drivers. And a new study says that the number of auto-related deaths around the world has reached epidemic proportions.

Someone is always to blame, and in one case, lawyers are going after the woman who sent a driver a text that distracted him.

Mathew is driven to distraction by the transformers and this amazing model is on his wish list.

This crazy Nissan Juke is not likely to be on many wealthy folks lists, but at least a few people will want a monster mini-crossover.

Finally, we spend some time reminiscing and wishing we had the means and the creativity to rent an oddball vehicle for our proms. What would you take to your prom. Tweet us at @GTSOTR and #sweetpromrides.

Here is what David wishes he could have driven in: