Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers (2007).
The greatest experience is being in your car and driving through a tunnel at night. The yellow and white lights illuminate everything...and I mean everything. Everything from the walls of the tunnel that no one appreciates to the road and most importantly, the cars. If you think that your car is a piece of junk, all you have to do is watch someone else drive it through a tunnel and you will find a reason to love it in that heat. The blend of lights sends a buzz through your system. The roar of the engine sends hot shivers down your spine. You can feel each indent the tires take as you speed along at sixty miles an hour. Every rumble, every sight...Oh what a view it is. I cannot form this into words clearly enough because being in that tunnel is something that you have to experience. A movie cannot capture it and neither can words. You have to feel the engine, see the lights and the illumination...The lights, especially yellow, cast the most beautiful shadows over your skin. You don't want to take your eyes off the road. You know, realistically, that if you were to do so, you would crash. But the beautiful fantasy laid out in front of you is too much to describe. I have tried to save the experience in my mind, but nothing is ever good enough.
I wish that my car could just drive itself so that, for that single minute that is much too short, I could stretch out in the backseats and let the vibrations of the engine roar through me so that I may soar for that minute. That tunnel goes against physics. When we are in that tunnel, time disappears. You hear nothing while in that tunnel besides the beautiful sounds of cars passing you. It is as though you are going ten miles while everyone else is going one hundred. Beauty. The only thing that is a beast in that tunnel is the cars that make me want to purr like a cat along to the engine...except to the extreme. A little purring kitten is what you feel coursing through your veins when you see the perfect car and trace it with your fingers, leanning against the metal, gripping the sterring wheel and going for a test run. That's when you know you've found the perfect car. Forget how appealing the car is. When you feel that engine...when you feel yourself float on air when the car doesn't make a sound while driving at the speed that gets your heart racing...that is when you connect. That fatal connection that you make with your car is crucial. My car isn't alive, but if it were...we would ride through the Lærdal Tunnel in Norway, and take care of the longest drive known to man. We would fly on air at its top speed. Its engine and my heart would purr, hesitate, and stop as one.
Every car is sleek. My heart would personally stall if I saw my sleek silver porsche riding on that glistening road in that dazzling settling. Colour doesn't matter in that tunnel, but the yellow lights pop on silver like you wouldn't believe. I have a feeling that if my car were alive, it would allow me that minute or so in the backseat. The engine would heat me up through the seats. The wires and cables underneath the hood would stroke the skin that is illuminated by the lights. The engine would give a jump start at the arrival to the light, setting off a chain reaction in that stimulating lion's roar. The transfluid would leak out of the exhaust, which would then coat the seats in a shiny smooth silk, making them smell like heart clenching gasoline. The lights would illuminate and capture the scene. Those lights make everything purrrfect. Perhaps that is why a romantic setting involves the comfort of a bedroom and a hundred candles. My bed is the backseats. The candles that set the mood are the yellow tunnel lights.
Even the shadows are sexy in that tunnel. It all fits together. Everything becomes one. For that single minute that you are in that tunnel, the world drifts away into a beautiful fantasy of a blurr of illuminated cars riding on air. Then you exit the tunnel...and the magic is gone.
Author's Note: The Lærdal Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the world (24.5 km or 15.2 miles).