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Putting it into park: Weekend Linkage

Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo. Happy celebrating, but don’t drink and drive or you may end up in a pickle like the drivers below.

- A photo gallery of car wrecks from the 1930′s

- Grandparents tow their granddaughter in toy car from back of their SUV

- The average American can’t afford the average midsize sedan

- Watch a video of dogs in cars with that song from The O.C.

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Mojo tip: don't put music in car videos

It’s a simple fact – music ruins car videos. After featuring the Chevrolet Camaro Intimidator and its 704 horses as a “Cool used car of the future,” we wanted to know what its engine and exhaust sounded like. Thing is, each one of its videos has background music, effectively overpowering the Camaro’s engine noise. This seems to be a common theme across YouTube on lots and lots of driving videos. For gear heads, this can be depressing or at least we think so. In example one, we have a compilation of Nascar wrecks that should let the listener hear the smashing metal and burning rubber. This isn’t the case.

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