So I have a '94 Toyota Corolla. I've had it a year, I love it dearly. The MPG serves me most well. I use it to commute to college (which is a 50-minute drive), so I'm racking up the miles quickly.

Lately it's started shaking really, really hard. Randomly. Like I'll be driving down the highway and everything's fine, then suddenly, the car is rattling and the steering wheel is shaking back and forth and it's not good at all. Then a few tense minutes later it stops.

Of course, I don't like this at all! So my dad and I took it into the auto shop early this morning. The guy looks at me and says, "A Corolla? Those things are tough. They last forever." And he referred to the 'shake' as a 'shimmy'. He'll look at it today and see if there's something loose or a piece of rubber snapped or something that would make the something rub against or jiggle loose or something like that.


Personally, I think 'shimmy' has a certain class, a term more worthy of my wonderful Corolla. <3