We had a VW super beetle...great winter car.
driving down the xpressway and the left rear tire came off and passed me. Rolled across a couple of lanes and ended up in a snowbank on the meridian.
It didn’t cause an accident as not many were on the road. Ended up selling to the guy who towed it.
Ha! My very first car was a VW super beetle. Taught myself to drive it in a parking lot across the street from my apartment when the stores were closed, couple weeks after I’d gotten my license after taking a few lessons from a Sears driving school instructor. I was 20. Previous to that, I’d never driven and exclusively used public transportation.
That winter one day, I noticed it wasn’t steering properly, so I took it to a shop late in the afternoon. They put it on a lift the next morning, and the mechanic later told me that when he went to examine the front right wheel, it came off in his hands! The only thing keeping it from falling off the previous day was the fact that it was frozen onto the axle! Close call!
But yeah, other than that, great winter car. It started right up every morning, no matter how cold it was.
Many years later I couldn’t resist an attractive ad, and got another VW bug in Florida. Loved those cars, and it was so easy to change the oil myself. Drove that sucker until it was so worn out that all I could get for it was about $300. I finally graduated to cars with air conditioning, and never looked back. Only had one with automatic transmission, hated it, and got rid of it quickly.