On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Kevin 'Genryu' Eav wrote:

I know somebody did something involving a spring 
of drowned Nissan Pathfinder, but a living automobile isn't quite 
inanimate.

This was done purely as a one-hit joke, in RpM's 'The More Things Change'.
:)

It was used in a revenge-wars fic too. One of the people was cursed to
become a car; the only way he could talk was to tune into the radio and
selectively output the audio from the radio stations. One of the things
the car said was something like "Everybody!@#$%$%@$@^%#@%%%%get in the
car!"