Let me just say this -- as Max left the house this morning, I lay in bed listening to him leave...disctinctly, I heard him leave the garage, go up the alley, turn onto an adjacent street, turn again, turn AGAIN, and heard the first three gears as he went up 14th Street. Which, by the way, is about a quarter- to a half-mile away. This was with the windows closed/air conditioning on (it's hot here).