As we lap the web this week, we can’t help but notice the proliferation of strange car-related stories.  Maybe it’s the change of seasons, but the world’s roads seem flush with entertaining and, in some cases, frightening vehicles and events.

• Have you ever wanted a car that looks like a cupcake?  Well, now’s your chance!
• But maybe a $1 Million Batmobile Replica is more your thing.
• Or how about a silly looking sardine can micro-car that seats four?
• Ever wanted a flu shot from the comfort of the driver’s seat?
• As ever, though, we are concerned with improving safety on the roads, a difficult proposition given, for example, the propensity of certain morons to assign designated driving duties to their 13-year old.
• And it’s not just the law-breakers that are behaving curiously, either. Thanks to the fine folks at Camera Fraud, we see that those enforcement cameras aren’t always entirely legal. Maybe more people should fight fire with fire!
• Fear not, though, at least you may soon be able to realize that dream of yours, as Michigan considers protecting civil liberties by making it legal for you to hang fuzzy dice from your rear-view mirror.
• The FBI isn’t quite as worried about civil rights, though, as they begin to hunt fugitives through the use of DMV records.
• Making the transition to international car news of note, we learn that General Motors is growing sales again….in China, which is now where Hummer will have its headquarters.
• Toyota, meanwhile, will be showing a “green sportscar,” complete with a Subaru boxer engine, at the upcoming Tokyo motor show.
• Equally, if not more, interesting is Nissan’s new concept, the “Glider,” which is part motorcycle and part car, in an electric platform. It’s not your great-great-grandfather’s electric car!
• The Nissan Glider is sleek and small but it will, apparently, accommodate the average-size human being.  Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of this little high-performance machine, because that looks like fun!

Until next week, be safe, be courteous, and stop with that distracted driving already!