Father's day is right around the corner- and your dad wants some cool car-related stuff. Here at Auto123.com, we know a thing or two about cool car-related stuff - so here are some of this year's favorite shopping ideas for your dad. Pick from our favorites to save him the usual tie, shaving kit and car-wash pail.
Performance Driving Lessons ($300 to $1000+): Dad a weekend racer type? Find a
performance driving school and send him off to learn all about slip-angle, apexes and weight transfer. It may be the only time he ever visits a race track or skidpad, but the skills he learns there will improve his ability to drive safely for the rest of his life.Inexpensive, day-long courses are available from a few hundred dollars with instruction provided in dads own car, van or wagon.
Cool Cars ($40,000 to $100,000+): Money no object? Can we be your dad? Just kidding. Consider getting pops a few hundred ponies for his special day- and we're not talking the kind that wear metal shoes and leave a mess in the yard, either. Two of the wickedest family haulers we've encountered are the 425-horsepower
Dodge Magnum SRT8 , and the four-door, four-season, four-letter-word eliciting
Audi RS4 . Both will comfortably haul (literally) the family around in style, while making a clear aural and visual statement to anyone nearby that dad is a die-hard horse fanatic.
Something for the Xbox ($60) The latest installment in the Need for Speed racing game series is called "Pro Street"- and it's available on Xbox 360, home computer, Nintendo DS and Playstations 2 and 3.Pro Street will let dad compete in various racing events, from drift to drag to flat out speed runs down canyon roads. Graphics are mind-blowing, and the sound effects will put him in the driver's seat. Modern-day icons like the BMW M3 meet imported drifting machines like the Toyota Supra to give Pro Street a selection of steel that will satisfy. Prove to the old man that the Nissan GT-R is the new king of muscle cars by laying down the smack on the big screen in front of friends and family.