As you hit the roads for the holidays, no doubt you'll be assaulted by any number of annoyances: clogged tunnels, draconian speed limits, overzealous speed enforcement, usurious tolls, broken parking meters and endless traffic lights.

The driving frenzy that is Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us. Here are some tips to help ensure that your next road trip is one you'll always remember, rather than one you'll want to forget.
Is your vehicle fit?

Today is Mother's Day, a time to honor those who raised us. For one auto family, the holiday symbolizes something even more profound: mothers who saved the family business. The company in question? Ford. Henry Ford established Ford Motor Company in 1903 at age 40. Five years later, he introduced the Model T, a car that changed America forever.

SUFFOLK
The fourth annual Shake, Rattle & Roll Spring Car Show is from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday along Downtown Suffolk's Main Street.
The free Suffolk Tourism event, which will feature 200 classic pre-1975 vehicles on display, was organized to pay tribute to the drivers who raced their cars on Suffolk Raceway's quarter-mile concrete track.

The chart below reflects the price of a regular gallon of gasoline in Hampton Roads, Virginia and the United States on the first of each month. Source: AAA. (Related: Gas prices by state)

MOST OF US PRIDE ourselves on being open-minded, able to accept a new experience without prejudice. So, if I told you that the new compact 2012 Buick Verano was worth a test drive, would you believe me? Most likely, no. To most folks, Buicks are soft-riding geezer pleasers meant for cruising slowly in the left lane with a driver oblivious to the fact that their left turn signal is flashing.

Saturday was Record Store Day, meant to celebrate the glory of independent record stores, which have suffered as music has grown more portable, especially in the car, where eight-tracks, cassette tapes, CDs and now iTunes have displaced the radio as the main source of entertainment.
There was a time when the only portable music for your car was an AM radio.
Consider 1956.

  Imagine having to redesign the Coca-Cola bottle. Or an egg. Or a baseball. The bottom line: it’s hard to reinterpret a classic.

You might call Nissan's newest trucklet, the 2012 Nissan Juke, ugly. Or the Nissan Joke. Really. As I first sized up the Juke, thoughts flooded my head, ones sure to upset the folks at Nissan: 'you can't drink this car pretty' and 'maybe they should call it the Nissan Puke.' Certainly, its style is polarizing. It's meant to be.

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