You’ve probably seen it: that weird family of four that look like monks all happily cooking marshmallows over a backyard fire. Or that lady curled up on a couch dressed in her sleek burgundy robe talking on a cordless phone.

It’s the Snuggie. Yes, now you too can live in the warmth and solitude of a nuclear fallout survivor. But don’t laugh too hard – over 4 million of these things have been sold already. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a fairly significant portion of your countryman have lost their jobs and face an uncertain financial future, but have yet determined that a Snuggie is a sound and fashionable purchase.

So how much of a cult status has the Snuggie achieved? In March, hundreds of Chicago residents will be participating in the first ever Snuggie Pub Crawl (see the story at the Chicago Tribune). Wow, I don’t know, but if I was going to cherish a Snuggie purchase I don’t know if I’d want it smelling like beer and puke — but that’s just me.

Yup, the Snuggie phenomonon has caught on. It makes me wonder why spray-on hair never did — that was a product we could stand behind! Hair in a can!

If there were ever a sign of these troubled times in the automobile industry, this is it. The photo you’re looking at was taken recently at Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd, the largest car plant in the United Kingdom and the most productive in Europe. Well, it may be productive, but with supply outpacing demand, Nissan has apparently been left with too much stock. The factory’s parking lots are overfilled, so they’ve begun parking cars on the facility’s test track. Of course, that means Nissan can’t use the track to test new cars, but if nobody’s buying them, that ought to be the least of their worries.

Read the full story  at Autoblog