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.
Pick from our favorites to save him the usual tie, shaving kit and car-wash pail.
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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.
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