This part here frightened me, 'cause it reminds me of what happened to my car (RIP The Sexmobile Mark III: Optima Prime and the Temple of Poon). For awhile my car would be slow to accelerate when I pushed on the gas, and one night I was driving home from work and my car just started slowing down hard, no matter how much I pushed on the gas. I managed to pull off at an exit, and my car died at the top of the off ramp. Had to push it to the nearest parking lot, got it towed to a shop the next morning. Guy said that it could be my timing belt, but it was likely that the engine was just shot. So my car's been sitting there in this parking lot 40 miles away because I haven't been able to afford to have it towed home.