When Wile E. Coyote insists that this time he really is going to catch the Road Runner, you know what's going to happen.
Watching any of his popular precedents — "Deadliest Catch," "Ice Road Truckers," "Ax Men" — all chronicling hard, hard work undertaken in hell-freezing-over levels of inclemency, you thank whoever invented HVAC and insulation.
In normal circumstances the camera catches the road and a bit of the area on either side, but the image may not be wide enough to show a herd of deer in a meadow, dashing toward the road.
"I feel like a guy who's been on the catch-up road for a while and who's coming from behind," he told me on his campaign bus, the Real Deal Express, shortly after dusk on the eve of the New Hampshire primary.
Then again, the Touareg, though very impressive on the trail (click here to catch off-road footage: Real Media/Windows Media), isn't as spacious inside as some of its competition, such as the Acura MDX.
While Wile E. Coyote never caught the Road Runner, the price of gas, the cost of insurance and governmental regulations did, bringing production to a halt in the mid 1970s after a dismal series of overstyled, underpowered cars in the 1971- '75period.
Guess the coyote finally caught the Road Runner.
We drove back through the center of town and caught another road upriver.
It's not a country where you see graffiti: a few years ago, a 26-year-old artist was sentenced to community service after she was caught stencilling roads and pasting stickers in public.
But Spike knows the audience for "Coal" and its brawny brethren like "Deadliest Catch" and "Ice Road Truckers".
