1. Over
   Into
2. Around
   Under

Hitting an object like a tree or a telephone pole at high speed can cause the metal of the car to fold into the car, meaning that the bits not hit by the object fold around the object, thus wrapping it in car. From here came the expression "to wrap a car around something".

1. Petal
   Pedal
2. Paddle
   Shtetl

Anyone used to either a four-speed manual or a automatic transmission might think of pressing the gas pedal flat to the floor as a way to go fast. In a stripped down muscle car, that floor could be bare metal, thus "put the pedal to the metal".

1. Outside
   In
2. By
   Out

To "live out of one's car" refers to a practice, common among people evicted from their homes but in possession of a vehicle, of sleeping in their cars instead of a regular domicile. This usually involves getting a YMCA membership so one has a place to shower and eat.

1. Free ride
   Lift
2. Cake
   Car

"Giving a lift" is often a friendly offer when someone knows you need to get somewhere and wants to help out by driving you there. Of course, in this day and age, one must be careful about from whom one accepts free rides.

1. Wall to wall
   Ear to ear
2. Bumper to bumper
   Rats to races

Bumper to bumper traffic, or as Los Angeles residents refer to it, "traffic", is when cars are moving so slowly that they bunch together, nearly touching bumpers. Of course, living in an age when most car bumpers are simply another part of the frame, it's an expression that is losing its meaning.

1. Wheels
   Car
2. Paint
   Bumper

The 1940s and 1950s saw the popularization of referring to a car as "one's wheels" and thus, a compliment offered to someone with a desirable car might be to comment on the niceness of one's wheels.

1. Drink
   Look
2. Buckle
   Suit

After Ralph Nader published his book "Unsafe at Any Speed," about the lack of safety protocols in automobile manufacturing, mass-produced cars suddenly had seat belts. The admonition to "Buckle up, it's the law!" soon made its way onto TV PSAs and roadside signs across the country.

1. Nice ham
   Space Jam
2. Traffic jam
   Log jam

Traffic jams are common all over the world, but don't be confused about the meaning of the expression. The "jam" refers to too many cars and trucks "jamming" into a road without enough space, not a sweet quince-based substrate containing traffic.

1. Lost
   Flat tire
2. Jackknifing
   Breakdown

When a tractor-trailer jackknifes, it means that the cab or tractor has arranged itself at a shallow angle relative to the trailer, meaning that the tractor can't pull the trailer behind it because the trailer cannot make such a tight turn. When this happens, the trailer usually needs to be decoupled so the tractor or cab can move around to the front of the trailer.

1. Teed
   Flipped
2. Cut
   Sliced

In most driving courses, drivers are taught etiquette. Cutting someone off means overtaking them aggressively and too close, creating a dangerous situation the driver who was cut off has to respond to or else collide with the offender.

1. Head
   Crash
2. Latrine
   Pit

In auto racing, the pit is where cars go to have their tires swapped, get new fuel, and if the driver needs anything, including relief. The expression to "make a pit stop" is thus often applied to regular driving, and means to stop at a service station for fuel, food or anything else one might need.

1. Kicking.
   Talking.
2. Driving.
   Arguing.

Backseat driving is the act of verbally correcting the driver along the way. Examples would include telling them to speed up or slow down, turn one way or another, or most commonly, use a specific route.

1. Tires.
   Gears.
2. Gas.
   Diesel.

Shifting gears is a term that holds less and less meaning as time goes by. Traditionally, it refer to the act of manually shifting from one gear to another, in a car's gearbox, allowing the car to go faster, or slow down, or accelerate faster from a standstill, or go in reverse. Outside of driving, shifting gears often refers to changing priorities.

1. Road.
   Wife.
2. Kids.
   Gipper.

"One for the road" refers to having a drink before getting into a car and driving. It's a terrible idea. Today, it often refers to having one last drink, or bite, or anything before leaving, not just drinking and driving.

1. Shooting
   Running
2. Sleeping
   Standing

In the UK, speed bumps are usually called "sleeping policemen" because they are roughly the size and shape of a person sleeping on the road, and perform the function of police, in that they get drivers to slow down.

1. Bumpers
   Seats
2. Windows
   Tires

Hitting a car or truck tire when it is on a wheel gives a sense of the tire's pressure and alignment, depending on how it moves. Checking the tires is also part of the four-point check you're supposed to do before setting off, so "kicking the tires" has come to mean "checking things out".

1. Up the road
   On the map
2. Down the road
   In the rear view mirror

Colloquially at least, things that are "down" the road are things that haven't been experienced yet. Thus, referring to things "down the road" means talking about things that are yet to transpire, or destinations not yet reached.

1. Bald tired
   Driving on fumes
2. Rear ended
   Run over

The expression "driving on fumes" refers to how gasoline fumes are enough to spark the explosions that run internal combustion engines, and thus it is possible for a car to run without any liquid gasoline left in the engine.

1. Black.
   A Ford.
2. Expensive.
   Mine.

Henry Ford didn't see the value in having more than one color available for cars. As a result, all the cars made by Ford on his watch were black, even when other car makers began offering all sorts of colors.

1. Bee
   Fee
2. Tree
   Z

The expression "three on the tree" refers to how, on some older manual cars that only had three-speed gearboxes, the gear lever came out of the steering column rather than the center console. These days, certain cars still have something akin to this setup, only with an automatic, most Mercedes-Benz cars, for example.

1. Shoe
   Hubcap
2. For
   Boot

A car boot sale is like a yard sale, only instead of a yard, you fill up the trunk (or "boot") of your car, drive it somewhere and sell things out of it. It may sound sketchy, but in some places, this is the norm.

1. Wing mirror
   Undercarriage
2. Back end
   Windshield

This expression is more British than American, but it can be applied either way. Buses aren't the most beautiful of vehicles, and anyone stuck staring at the back of one while in traffic is probably used to the rather uninspiring design. Obviously, comparing this to someone's face isn't a friendly thing to do.

1. Club.
   Pool.
2. Crash.
   Line.

Car pooling began as a way to reduce traffic, and allow less expensive commuting. In time, it became more about using less fuel and thus producing less carbon dioxide. Whatever the reason, the expression really makes one want to take a dip, doesn't it?

1. New Jersey
   Up a wall
2. Around the bend
   To distraction

While being driven up a wall, to distraction, or around the bend all have similar meanings, only the last of the three has anything to do with actually driving. Driving someone around the bend relates the idea of driving a car to a destination out of sight to the idea of reaching the end of someone's patience, and continuing.

1. Throw it to the wall to see what sticks.
   Take it for a ride.
2. Take it for a test drive.
   Test it out.

The test drive has come under a lot of criticism of late. Obviously, it's good for figuring out how one feels about the comfort of the seats, the ergonomics of the interior, and the personality of the engineering. What it fails to show is reliability and real world experience, like what it's like loading the trunk with two arms full of groceries.

1. Happy
   Fine
2. Dead
   Dismal

Dead ends have a dismal-sounding name, but the name doesn't have morbid origins. Dead ending roads are described that way because their end does not become another road, or branch out in any way, as with a cul de sac.

1. Eat
   End
2. Hit
   Praise

Hitting the road may sound like something one does out of rage, but this is far from the truth. It refers to the car making contact with the road, or "hitting" it. The hit takes place where the rubber meets the road.

1. Toad
   Pig
2. Dog
   Hog

Calling someone a hog is a tradition as old as domesticated farm animals. Hogs want all of something. There used to be ads on the New York City subway asking riders not to be "seat hogs". Similarly, road hogs are people who drive, not in one lane, but in as many lanes as they can be in simultaneously.

1. The heave-ho
   The grease
2. The worm
   The stick

This expression is just an English expression, but it comes from maintaining cars. When something makes an annoying noise, making clear that there is a problem, people are inclined to fix it first. This is why the squeaky wheel gets the grease, even if other wheels need it too.

1. Life
   Glass
2. Dumb
   Amber

The best expressions and sayings include rhymes. An amber gambler is someone who speeds up when a light turns yellow (amber) so they can beat the light and cross the intersection. The problem of course, hence the gambler part, is that the light will change faster than expected and the car will run a red, and get hit.

1. U
   K
2. Z
   T

U-turns aren't usually legal, but K turns are. "K turns" are an older term used less and less that means a 3-point turn. 3-point turns are nearly always legal, unlike U-turns, and you get to use an unusual letter for them, which is fun!

1. Pump
   Dump
2. Slam
   Cut

Before anti-lock brakes, when one wanted to come to a stop, one needed to pump the brakes, meaning press and release them repeatedly. If a driver didn't do this, the brakes could lock and the car could slide.

1. Stolen goods
   Auto body
2. Car
   Chop

Chop shops are places where stolen cars are disassembled and sold off in parts. Why? Because cars have unique VINs (Vehicle Identification Numbers) which make selling a stolen car very difficult. Parts, on the other hand, are fungible.

1. Panda
   Cop
2. Police
   Witch

"Panda car" is an expression referring to police cruisers, which, like pandas, are black and white. Like a lot of slang, it uses a funny descriptor in place of the actual defining quality of a thing.

1. An ambulance
   A porcelain one
2. A Sprinter
   A green one

Buses have huge steering wheels which sit in front of the driver like a skeletal pizza, so large the driver has to hug it to turn it. Similarly, someone vomiting might have to hug the porcelain bathroom fixture into which they are disgorging the contents if their stomachs, as if they were driving a bus.