My mom's cat once crawled up into the engine compartment of her diesel Mercedes... and believe it or not, she actually heard the cat screaming over the sound of the motor. She pulled over, cut the engine, and the cat got a very happy ending.
Just to let you know things don't always end up OK, (not to put a damper on things, but I gotta vent...) my cat of 12 years did the same thing in my car. I almost made it to work, 30 minutes later, but she fell out right before I exited the freeway... needless to say, all was NOT well... :-(
our Minnesota farm cats lost many a tail staying warm near the engine block in the winter, only to be de-tailed upon
start up. Once even had a cat get backed over by our F150
pickup.We couldn't find it and thought it ran off to die .
Went about 20 miles with the truck and came out of the burger place to find him fishing burgers out of the dumpster.
Damn cat had tire track marks on it's back, but other than
that, was ok.We think it rode under the truck on the spare.