Alright, so somehow you managed to buy (or borrow, or steal) one of these three exotic cars. Assuming you already have a willing partner (although with these cars, getting one shouldn’t be an issue,) which one is the coolest to have sex in, and why?

This, of course is assuming that you are both small (and limber) enough to cramp into the same seat and umm…assume the position.

Which one is coolest, the Audi R8, Lamborghini Gallardo, or the Dodge Viper? Choose one of the three, but also let us know if you think there is a cooler car to have sex in.

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BP and CarDomain.com have teamed up for the Amoco Ultimate Contest. Car enthusiasts will upload photos of their vehicles to the contest site, while CarDomain visitors can vote for the most impressive cars. Prizes will be awarded to winners on a weekly and monthly basis. One winner will be awarded the grand prize at the end of the contest.

• One Grand Prize winner receives a trip to the 24 Hours at LeMans event in France
• Two winners receive trips to an American LeMans Series race
• Monthly winners of a $1,000 BP gift card
• Weekly winners of a $250 BP gift card

To enter, just upload your car’s picture and explain why it’s worth winning, and you’re entered. Make sure to vote on the other cars as well.

One thing to keep in mind is that just because you have a nice car doesn’t mean it will win. People will vote not only for the car, but the quality of the picture, originality, and your description of why you should win.

Keep an eye out for my own car up there soon, and give me a thumbs up! Continue Reading…

It was May of 2006, my 1995 Maxima’s check engine light came on. The car had plenty of body problems but had run great in my three or four years of owning it. The only thing that had needed replacement over that time was the idler pulley. I knew the car was ten years old and was about due for a slew of problems to hit. So, after a few years of driving in Iowa, I knew winters kind of sucked if you had two wheel drive. I really enjoyed driving, and wanted to own a manual transmission for the rest of my life. I think it connects the driver to the car in a way automatics don’t do. So there were my two main qualifications: clutch car and all wheel drive.

From there, I hit the web. After conversations with a very happy Subaru owner, I thought I’d check out their site. I really liked the WRX since it had enough power and didn’t really scream, “Rice me out!” So I sent a dealer inquiry through their site. I got a response a few hours later from Jim Miller Subaru here in Cedar Rapids. He said they had a shiny new 2006 STi in stock and I could come down at any time to check it out. I grabbed my parents since this would be my first major purchase in life and we went out that night to do some test driving. The STi was the first one we got in. It was interesting they didn’t keep the shift knob with it; the salesman said it was a theft risk. So we got in and started it. The car had a rumble that warmed the soul. I was a bit taken back by the wing that followed me while I drove but the car was amazingly responsive and had loads of power. Next I got in the WRX. Well, the STi was a six speed, the WRX was a five speed. It had a quieter cabin but didn’t talk to me like the STi did. So, I thought about it for a couple of days, then went down that Saturday and picked up an STi with 19 miles on it. Payments were $670 a month but that was fine since I was single but dating and had minimal expenses. Also, my interest rate was a really low 4.9% because of some college graduate deal Subaru had going at the time.

Life was great, I drove the car everywhere, including a trip to south Texas and back. People asked how my teeth were after the trip. The car had performed marvelously and was the easiest long trip I’d ever taken. To put it succinctly, I loved my car. I was a proud papa and it was my child. My wife and I married that August. Things really changed in March of 2007 when we found out my wife was pregnant. It was early May when I ran the numbers on upcoming bills and the STi was a huge drain every month, especially when my wife stopped working after the kid was born. That and the stupid jokes about having a kid in the car were dumb. C’mon guys, come up with something that’s actually funny. So I called the same salesman at Jim Miller up again and asked him what my options were. They had a 2007 Legacy base model in stock and with the $1500 incentive to buy, I could help cover up my negative equity in the car. Well, I looked at it and the color was awful, even my wife didn’t like it. A couple of days later, he called me back and said they’d just gotten in a 2006 Legacy GT Limited. It was an automatic but I got to keep the turbo and it had a lot of nice features like heated seats, leather, and a defroster under the wipers which helps in Iowa winters. So I picked it up and lowered my payments to $512 a month. I traded the STi in one year to the day from when I got it, along with the winter wheels I’d picked up, with a tear in my eye. Continue Reading…

Philip Powell, writing over at the always great Classical Drives, cops to the new and happening wave of car oriented Get-To-Gether (or GTGs, as they are referred to here in America) that seem to be sweeping Australia.

He goes into it thusly:

“There seems to be a trend sweeping the country … towards weekly classic car meets adjacent to coffee houses and restaurants. These are not organised car clubs, just get-togethers of like-minded people.”

Really? This is new?

Wait, it gets better:

“Incidentally, credit the Brits with this concept.”

Man, both of those are news to me, because as near as I can always remember, “weekly classic car meets adjacent to coffee houses and restaurants, [ that are] just get-togethers of like-minded people,” have been happening all my life.

Has no one seen American Graffiti? Have we lost sight of what is, to me, one of the most basic tenets of our car culture: That car people will, spontaneously, show up at one or more local or fun watering holes on a loosely scheduled basis to look at one another’s cars and talk about same.

Dear God, I’ve been seeing this on a regular basis in every place I’ve lived (except Hawai’i, where cars are short-lived, transitory things). When I was in High School, the spontaneous accretion of cars & car guys & girls got so bad at the local Dairy Queen that the town fathers saw fit to enact Draconian levels of law enforcement. Continue Reading…

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This post is sponsored by Harris Ford

If you’re in the Seattle metro area, surely you’ve driven by Harris Ford - the largest Seattle Ford dealer in the area.

Looking over their website, it seems like they have quite a selection of new and pre-owned autos, although there were a few issues:

First of all, when looking through their used cars, it says “Contact Us” under the price column of each vehicle. I can’t stand that, and as a result wouldn’t even consider buying a car there if I was looking online. I need to know the price before I even consider looking; I’m not going to contact them for each car I’m looking at. Same thing when I’m driving through a car lot looking - the price of the car should be displayed on the windshield so I have a reference point for price. In fact just this last weekend I was looking at cars and drove past a lot without prices on their cars. I won’t be returning, even though I was interested in the cars. Just a suggestion, as I’m sure I’m not the only one. Continue Reading…