From Shades of Death Rd. to Farfrompoopen Lane. Visit Some of America's Strangest Streets in TheCarConnection.com's Wild, Weird and Wacky Street Names Contest. Also, Exclusive Preview of the L.A. and Detroit Auto Shows, Spy Shots and More.

DETROIT, Dec. 29, 2005 -- If you want to get to Constipation Ridge, down in Tennessee, you'll have to drive up Farfrompoopen Lane. Don't be surprised by what you see in the mists along New Jersey's Shades of Death Road. Tired of telling strangers they've got the wrong address? Why not name your street This-Ain't-It Road?

America is crisscrossed by roadways with an assortment of wild, weird and wacky names, from Detroit's Lois Lane to North Dakota's Smashed-in-Buffalo- Head Road. The folks at TheCarConnection.com have spotted plenty of them during their travels, but we wanted to let our readers contribute their own favorites, and as encouragement, we've launched the Wild, Weird and Wacky Street Names Contest, which runs now through January 20th.

Details and rules can be found on TheCarConnection.com, http://www.thecarconnection.com/ , but prizes include a top-line portable GPS navigation system.

There's lots more on the Web's Automotive Authority this week, starting with TheCarConnection's exclusive preview of the upcoming Los Angeles and Detroit auto shows. Readers can get a sneak peek at the reborn Chevrolet Camaro, as well as the new Mazda CX7 crossover, Dodge Challenger, Toyota Camry, Lexus LS450 and lots more.

TheCarConnection also has the inside scoop on the first Chinese cars to reach Detroit's Cobo Hall conference center, and when they'll reach showrooms across the U.S.

Join TCC as it takes some Great Drives around the world.

Check out Toyota's new FJ Cruiser, the pint-sized Yaris, the muscular Dodge Magnum SRT8 and Pontiac's Torrent Crossover.

And let TheCarConnection's OnSite Mechanic help you solve all your automotive service problems.

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