congratulations

The Bing homepage this morning might be my favorite thing of the week.

I wish my cat would sleep all night

I wish our cats would stop knocking over cups of water and ruining our "wood" furniture. You think by now we'd learn not to leave any sitting around....

yep. here too. Humans never learn..

The 2016 TRUCK of the year isn't a truck...it's an SUV...that's just wrong~!

what won?

Which fake award?

A Volvo SUV.

I hate when SUV drivers call their vehicles trucks. I don't know why it irritates me so much.

Chevy Sweeps 2016 Car, Truck of the Year Awards

http://news.yahoo.com/video/chevy-sweeps-2016-car-truck-182855084.html

So there's more than one? Is that an American only award? Because the following is what MSN reported.

Honda/Volvo

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/detroit/h...p;ocid=oie9fvrt

yes every magazine/TV show/auto show ... has one that is fully dependent on how much money is spent in their venue.

That's irritating to me too - and I don't know why either. A truck has a bed, not sixth row seating (or whatever it's up to nowadays, lol)!

1971 Chevy Vega Motor trend car of the year

1972 Citroën SM Motor trend car of the year

Is this like cartridge razors featuring ever more blades?

Those two right there kill the validity of the silly Motor Trend car-of-the-year award. Make it appear to be a gauge of what not to buy.

1983 motortrend car of the year - Renault Alliance

This is why I stopped reading Motor Trend, Car and Driver, etc. years ago. The reviews and comparison tests are completely biased and the cars they get for testing are cherry-picked by the manufacturers and tweaked considerably beyond what the public will get when they buy one of those cars.

Oh yes, the Renault Alliance. Now that would be a choice pick.

Wonder if somewhere there is a Motor Trend "Car of the Year" hall of shame?

Wonder if it'd have the Trablant or the Yugo on it?

Yep. After a certain point....well, there is no point. You're not getting any closer of a shave. :-P

Oh man!

They really knew how to pick 'em, especially back in the 1970s and 1980s.

http://www.motortrend.com/news/car-of-the-year-winners-2/

^^^^
That was a walk down memory lane!

1981 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Chrysler K Cars, Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant

1980 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Chevrolet Citation

1978 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Chrysler, Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon

some more "winners"

"1981 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Chrysler K Cars, Dodge Aries "

My mother in law had a K-car. What a piece of junk. The paint came off so fast they must have used watercolors.

Yeah, my dad purchased a first-year-of-production K-Car, a Plymouth Reliant, for use as a commuter. Once out of warranty, and despite excellent maintenance, the head of a valve ended up in the bottom of the oil pan. When one considers the route that valve head had to take to end up there, it is apparent that the engine's problems were most severe.

The classic and collectible car calendars are perennially popular but somehow, the Chrysler K-Car, Ford Granada, and Chevy Citation are never a part of the featured photographs.

Why is that?