The position of “Car Czar” will be available soon and the list of applicants is filling up fast. Do you think you have what it takes to do the job? Here’s a list of some of the questions on the application form:

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Ferrari Club of America?

Have you ever keyed a Prius? Include photo of yourself standing next to it smiling.

Fill in the blank: “See the USA in your ___.”

Name the model of car driven in “Starsky and Hutch,” “The Dukes of Hazard” and “Knight Rider.”

Describe the last time you changed the oil in you car. Bonus points if it was within the last 20 years.

Without the help of Google Maps, locate Detroit on a globe.

Name three things you can do in the back seat of an American car that you can’t do in a foreign car. Bonus points for photos.

What is the most number of miles you’re driven with the needled on E? Provide towing and repair bills to substantiate.

Can you sit through a presentation by the CEO of General Motors without saying, “Heh-heh, he said Hummer”?

Give as many reasons as you can why Ralph Nader should be sent to Gitmo. Use back of form if necessary.

List three things you will throw in at no extra charge to get this job.

Sing “Hot Rod Lincoln” without making any mistakes. Bonus points for realistic car sound effects.

Name as many pro sports teams as you can whose mascots are also American car models.

Tell three jokes with the word “Isuzu” in the punch line.

Explain in your best car dealer voice why “I must be CRAZY to apply for this job!”

The recession is really taking a toll on everyone — even beer drinkers.

Because of the belt tightening measures almost all American households are implementing, everything is being cut down, even beer. There is a growing trend of beer drinkers now choosing cheaper priced brews when they buy them in supermarkets and stores. And this is a trend that the premium beer manufacturers are not happy about.

So what can you do? Well, if you’re Grupo Modelo SAB, the largest brewery in Mexico, you have to revisit some of your strategies. The company’s exports of its beers, including its top selling Corona, has declined by 5.3 percent in the first half of this year.

Modelo hsa said that it will be focusing on marketing to entice consumers to buy its beer. The obvious strategy of cutting prices to increase sales is not being entertained by the company because it will face higher input costs. One of its strategies is to even revive a popular ad it had in the 90′s as a way of stretching its marketing budget.

I don’t know about this strategy. Will beer drinkers buy expensive beer if they see an ad that’s more than ten years old? You have to be really drunk to get sold on that.