The Lesser-Known, British Version Of The Song ‘Panama’: COTD

A great drive in a great car needs to be complemented with a great soundtrack. If the engine itself doesn’t provide that, maybe your music can. I have no doubt that countless car nuts have played the Van Halen track “Panama” innumerable times over the past decades. I know I often queue up the song when I’m getting a bit hot and heavy on the throttle.

Today, Jason wrote about the absolutely silly cupholder in the Morgan Supersport that almost requires you to fondle your passenger. All of us in the Autopian Slack began joking about the hilarious ways this could work out, but the readers had even better comments. Ash78:

“Yeah, the coffee is a bit hot tonight

I can barely see the road over the length of my…bonnet

I reach down between my legs and

Take the lid off”

–Sir David Leigh Roth, Earl of Panama

Now, listen to this and try not to break any laws:

In other car news, Nissan has reportedly replaced its CEO with an apparent car guy. But does this new CEO meet the job requirements? As noted by Ranwhenparked:

Important question: does he own any large musical instrument cases? Maybe harp or upright bass sized?

Now, I must hit rewind because I was out for a press event and missed a really great comment. Last week, Jason wrote about VW’s “Inside Job,” a campaign to poach mechanics from the competition by sending them broken cars with messages stickered on parts. I joked with myself that VW must have sent those cars directly from the factory, but Canopysaurus had me beat:

I hope that someone gets our
I hope that someone gets our
I hope that someone gets our message in a throttle , yeah
Message in a throttle

Finally, we’ve been learning some new words lately, like a different way to say bump stop. Now, I present to you, a new way to say VW Cabrio, from Martin Ibert commenting on Jason’s convertible post:

These things were commonly called “Erdbeerkörbchen” or “little strawberry basket” in German because of the roll bar and the similarity with the little baskets fresh strawberries used to be sold in.

Excellent, have a great evening, everyone!

(Topshot: Warner Bros.)