I used to swear by Maglites, but went the route of high lumens AA and A123 LED lights these days, as glove boxes and consoles have shrunk. That said, and after reading this thread, I may go back to one or two in the vehicles that have room for a larger light. May try a C and D model...time to research...
I have a pretty cool Maglite story for y'all. I grew up in small town NH. One winter night during my senior year of HS (1979-1980), we had knee deep snow by 2100 (09:00 PM) (started snowing that morning IIRC) and we were in the middle of a helluva Nor'East'r that had most non 4X4 traffic off the road and the plows were struggling to keep up. I drove a '76 Jeep Cherokee that had limited slip axles, inline 6 banger, a three speed manual, and tall skinny snow tires that would go pretty much anywhere in snow. I was on my way home from my after school job at a grocery store and on snowy nights, I'd make it a point to cruise through Main Street just to see if anything was going on in our town of 5,000 folks.
I was gassing up my Jeep when a snowmobile went screaming up the empty street past a parked police cruiser. The cop had no chance to catch the guy, so not much reaction happened. About 20-30 seconds later, the snowmobile turns around and hauls ass back down the street again, basically taunting the cop to chase him. This time, the cop hits his lights, gets out of the car, and tries to wave the guy down...to no avail. I'm done pumping my gas but this show is kinda fun, so I just hang tight to see if it will keep going. The guy on the snow mobile doesn't disappoint, and is soon screaming back up the road for a third pass by the cop. This time, the cop, obviously PO'ed, rears back and throws his maglite at the rider. The throw goes low, missing the rider but somehow lodges itself into the snowmachine track, jamming it immediately. The cop takes off at a run and tackled the rider, who was trying to run off but i'm pretty sure the guy had been drinking or something, because he didn't make it very far. Never found out how that one ended, but he was in handcuffs and being stuffed into teh cruisere when I left. Since things were much simpler then, I suspect the dude probably ended up sleeping it off in jail that night and may have got off with a simple traffic violation.
The whole thing probably took a couple minutes to unfold, but I still remember it like it was last night, and it was the reason I swapped out by big red Everready Lantern for my first Maglite soon after.