My family and I are packing up the 2026 Lexus GX 550 Overtrail+ today (review coming soon) before we drive up to Flagstaff, Arizona. What do you have planned for this weekend? Well, I know what you’re doing right now: reading this week’s installment of Car Connections, a game in which I have the Random Word Generator pump out a trio of words, then link them to automobiles in some way. This week’s words are fox, magnitude, and cold. How would you associate these words with cars? Tell us in the Comments section below. (And click here for more car games!)

Fox: Redd Foxx. “Sanford and Son.” Jamie Foxx. Ford — and not because of the Fox-body Mustang. In this case, I’m thinking of the Panther platform, which underpinned the Ford Crown Victoria taxi that Foxx’s character drove (to its utter destruction) in the 2004 movie “Collateral.” You’ll see another connection to that great Michael Mann movie further down …

Magnitude: Earthquake. The Richter scale. Andy Richter, Conan O’Brien’s longtime comedy sidekick on his NBC and TBS shows. Toward the end of his short tenure as the host of “The Tonight Show” in 2010, O’Brien made it look as if he was blowing through NBC’s budget to get back at the network for reinstating Jay Leno as the host of the popular program. One of the “crazy expensive” bits was introducing a new character known as “Bugatti Veyron Mouse,” a $1,000,000-plus Veyron complete with giant whiskers, ears, and a tail (and probably a preference for French cheese). Check out the silliness below:

Cold: The 2003 war drama “Cold Mountain,” which co-starred Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman, who used to be married to Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise played a great villain in “Collateral.” He was also the star of the 2001 thriller “Vanilla Sky,” which opens with his character driving a dark blue Ferrari 250 GTO (actually, a Chevy V-8-powered replica known as the Alpha One GTO) through a completely deserted Times Square. The car might’ve been a fake, but the scene was real. According to the website Collider, Cruise and his fellow producers worked with then-mayor Rudy Giuliani to have the area shut down to the public to give the scene the appropriate surreal feeling. The cost of emptying out one of the most popular places on Earth? Over $1 million — a fraction of the price of a real 250 GTO. See what I’m talking about in the following video:

If today’s round of Car Connections makes you want to add a Ford, Bugatti, or Ferrari to your garage, look for them at ClassicCars.com and AutoHunter.com.