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The 23rd annual Taste of Dallas celebration is happening this weekend, and it’s sure to be an amazing gastronomic experience for locals and tourists alike.  The festival is expected to draw 300,000 visitors to the Dallas area to explore Texas’ largest free festival.

For many Dallas visitors, a great weekend is topped off with an exotic car rental.  Dallas is a fun town to explore, especially when you drive a Lamborghini.  Many visitors like to rent a convertible or other exotic car for their fun weekend in Dallas.

“The Taste of Dallas festival is a great event, and it’s for an awesome cause,” says Ron Sturgeon, owner of a Dallas exotic car rental company.

This year’s festival will benefit the North Texas Food Bank.  The North Texas Food Bank is committed to ending hunger in North Texas.  Concerned citizens can help in many ways, including volunteering and donating food and money.

The Taste of Dallas festival will feature foods prepared by local restaurants, as well as a variety of family-friendly activities.  There will also be live entertainment and displays by local artists.  It promises to be a very exciting weekend activity for Dallas visitors.

“It’s a fun event every year,” says Sturgeon.  “It’s great when there’s an event like this that is a good time for the whole family.”

After checking out the Taste of Dallas, some families may want some other fun Dallas activities to keep them occupied.  The DFW Elite Toy Museum is a great way for kids to check out the automotive toys of the past and spend quality time with the family.

For automobile enthusiasts, there’s more to do in Dallas than enjoy the festival.  Why not rent an exotic vehicle to explore the city.  Exotic car rental makes an excellent alternative to owning an exotic vehicle.  It allows regular people to drive a Bentley or other exotic car.

The Taste of Dallas 2009 kicks off Friday and continues through Sunday evening.  Entry to the festival is free, but visitors should bring cash to buy food and drinks while there.  There are fun carnival rides for the kids, and tickets can be purchased at various ticket stands.

Hours for the Taste of Dallas 2009 are as follows:

Friday 11:00am to 11:00pm

Saturday 11:00am to 11:00pm

Sunday 12:00pm to 8:00pm

Kate Miller-Wilson is a professional freelance writer living in the Twin Cities. Visit her website or email her for information about her freelance writing services.

It’s not always easy to figure out a good father day gift.  Most dads really aren’t all that keen on receiving ties or new dress shirts.  After all, there’s a lot more to today’s fathers than the classic role of provider for the family.

Why not use your father’s hobbies as a clue?  Is he an exotic car enthusiast?  Does he dream of driving a Lamborghini?  If so, exotic car rental might be the perfect Father’s Day gift.

A good Father’s Day gift helps you show your father how much you love him and appreciate him as a parent.  One of the best ways to do that is to show him that you listen to him and know him well.  If your dad spends a lot of time talking about exotic vehicles, your best choice could be exotic car rental.

Other great Father’s Day gift ideas include the following:

• Father’s Day Gift Idea #1:  A fun gadget like a GPS navigator, cell phone, or MP3 player. If your dad is a technology geek, he’ll love something along those lines.  Take stock of what he has and ask around for ideas about what kind of gadget he might need.
• Father’s Day Gift Idea #2:  A gift certificate for a nice dinner. This could be a great idea for the dad who loves to cook and loves good food.  There are lots of great Dallas restaurants, but it’s a good idea to make a reservation as soon as possible.
• Father’s Day Gift Idea #3:  An automotive dream tour. Dream tours are perfect for dads who love exotic cars and would enjoy driving several cars in one day.  If your dad enjoys exotic car rental, this could be the ultimate Father’s Day gift.
• Father’s Day Gift Idea #4:  Gear for his favorite hobby. This could be a special fishing pole, some disc golf equipment, or whatever supplies your dad could use to participate in his favorite hobby.
• Father’s Day Gift Idea #5:  Grilling equipment. A lot of dads love to grill.  Why not encourage your dad to make an even better hamburger with a new grilling cookbook or grill tools.

Whatever you choose as a Father’s Day gift, make sure it represents what you dad really enjoys.  Father’s Day is June 21, so there are only a few more shopping days left!

Kate Miller-Wilson is a professional freelance writer living in the Twin Cities. Visit her website or email her for information about her freelance writing services.

So you have a date and you want to make the evening special.  How do you stand out from the crowd while still remaining true to yourself?  Planning the perfect night out in Dallas is as simple as a great pizza and exotic car rental.

(Photo courtesy of Adam Hicks - Fort Worth, TX. All rights reserved.)

Renting an exotic car gives you a chance to show your date a really good time.  After all, it’s not everyone who picks up a date in a Lamborghini.  If your date is an exotic car enthusiast, exotic car rental will ensure that you show off your good taste and fabulous style.

Exotic car rental is easy.  Your chosen vehicle can even be dropped off at DFW International Airport or your hotel room.  And exotic car rental is a great way to add a little something extra to an already wonderful evening.

For dinner, many Dallas residents recommend Louie’s.  Louie’s is well known for its thin crust pizza, which is topped with a variety of meats and vegetables and Louie’s famous pizza sauce.  You can also get drinks here, although there are no beers on tap.

Locals recommend the meatballs as a starter.  Noted for their excellent flavor and dense texture, the meatballs are served with marinara sauce.  Family-style salads are also a great pick.

Louie’s is a local favorite and has been featured on the Food Network as well.  Dallas residents report that it makes a great first date restaurant, especially if you’re going for a casual, comfortable atmosphere.

What if renting a Lamborghini isn’t your style?  Lamborghini rental isn’t the only way to go.  You can also rent a luxury car like a Mercedes S550.  There’s even a Bentley Continental available for rent!  Finding the right car is almost as important as finding the right date.

So you’ve go your dream date, and your driving your dream car.  You’ve had pizza at Louie’s.  Now you’re off to a great start and can take your date to a movie, a show, or any of the great cultural events happening in Dallas.

Just remember that if you’re going to Louie’s, you need to bring cash.  The restaurant doesn’t accept Visa and Mastercard, and there’s nothing more embarrassing than having to dash out to an ATM in the middle of dinner!

Kate Miller-Wilson is a professional freelance writer living in the Twin Cities. Visit her website or email her for information about her freelance writing services.

If you’re much more interested in Indy 500 qualifying than in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, you’ll be right at home with the other fans of high octane driving who visit DFW Elite Auto Rental blog.

For the record, two time winner Helio Castroneves has the pole for this year’s Indy 500 race. This year’s Indy pace car will be a 2010 Chevy Camaro.

(Indy Pace Car Photo via Autoblog.)

If you’re not going to make it to the Indy 500 to be a part of the festivities, you can still get out on the open road and experience the best exotic car driving experience in Texas!

Where else can you unleash a 520 HP Lamborghini Gallardo on long stretches of gloriously deserted Texas roadway!

The half-day DFW Drive Your Dream tour will put you at the controls of this low slung Lamborghini Coupe, a Ferrari 360, a Dodge Viper SRT-10 and a bright red 2009 Audi R8…

Just like this one.

(Audi R8 photo by Josh Davis of Fort Worth-based Josh Davis Photography. All rights reserved.)

Just kidding fellas – actually it is this one!

If you’ve always wanted to check out the R8, why not drive it and five other performance cars as part of a 2000HP Supercar DrivingTour!

If you and Pops share an affinity for cars, do it together and save 20% on the second ticket. Tour dates are available in Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. Tickets for the driving experience cost only $695.00.

It’s a DFW Father’s Day gift he’ll never forget and never stop talking about and thanking you for. Call 214.247.4700 make an exotic car driving tour reservation.

Post written by exotic car driving fan Eric Anderson. Eric’s recent projects have included content for a Tampa English Tutor blog and a Dallas TX supercar rental website a

I thought Ford was a little bonkers when they made fibers for car seats out of soybeans, but those crazy cats at Warwick University in Merry Old England have done Ford one better. The project is the work of three brilliant engineers at Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Center. Rumor has it that if you find the golden ticket, you can get a tour of the factory where this exotic car was made.

(Photo Credit World First Racing)

They’ve managed to build a Formula 3 race car that runs on chocolate. “The dark chocolate is way better than milk chocolate as a fuel. But you have to be really careful not to accidentally use Hershey with almonds,” said a source close to the project.

(Ferrari F430 photo by Josh Davis, Fort Worth exotic car photographer. All rights reserved.)

“We had mishap with Hershey with almonds that ruined the fuel injection system on the racer and set us back several months,” stated the eco-racer’s design chief. Damn the interns.

Exotic Car in Chocolate Makes UK Sun

According to the U.K. Sun, the car has a steering wheel made of carrot fibers, a body made of potatoes and seat foam made of soybeans. Supposedly, it’s very healthy to drive. The chocolate exhaust fumes are not only carbon neutral but they also leave a deliciously tasty scent behind. The car can do 145 miles per hour and the developers would like to see their eco-friendly car and some of its technologies adopted by leading racing teams such as Ferrari and McLaren. I think they might have better luck looking for sponsors at Droste or Mars or Hershey or even Haagen-Dasz.

If you’ve been good and eaten all your vegetables, why not reward yourself with something a bit more sensible? How about renting something capable of 145 miles per hour that isn’t made out of your favorite characters from the Veggie Tales…

Dallas Exotic Car Rental: A Reward for Eating All Your Veggies

Check out a bevy of mouthwatering performance rentals from Platinum Exotics, a terrific Dallas, TX supercar rental company…  Sure you can’t eat carbon fiber side blades, but renting an red Audi R8 in Dallas TX is a hellava lot more appetizing that a spin in the latest eco racer…

This post written by web content writer Eric Anderson. See more of this web writer’s work at PDQWebCopywriting.com. Eric’s recent web writing projects include content for a Montana custom vehicle wraps company and a Tampa mortgage broker and a web page about Dallas Ferrari rentals.

The GM of the Baltimore Maserati dealership, Jack Davis, has a sweetheart of a deal for the parents of area children. The offer to area kids: “Make the honor roll, bring in your report cars to show us, and I’ll personally take you out for a hot lap ride in a Lamborghini or Maserati as a reward for your efforts.”

The deal has been going since January 2008 according to a fine article on the offer by Kae Davis of Examiner.com.

The business has been open to students of all backgrounds who want to nurture a love of motorsports and exotic cars. According to the Examiner article, “Some students have volunteered as assistants at shows, others have spent the day in and around the store.”

Having recently been a part of the local bring your child to work program, I believe that such programs can give valuable guidance to students about the world of work. As the parent of an almost 16-year-old, I know how academically motivating the car keys can be for an older student.

Photo by Ex-Fordy Brian Snelson. Image Licensed under Creative Commons. See more of Brian’s photographs in his Flickr photostream.)

The Lamborghini that captured my imagination as a youngster was the Countach and I certainly would have worked a lot harder in school if a ride in a Lamborghini Countach was hanging in the balance.

I am sure that the promise of a drive in a dream car would be a marvelous reward for making the honor roll.

At a time when it’s not fashionable to show the connection between hard work, success, and the finer things in life–including exotic cars–I applaud Maserati of Baltimore for offering this program of rewards for students.

Giving young people a taste of how business works, rewarding excellence, and mentoring achievers–Maserati of Baltimore is on to something good. Parents interested in using a dream car drive to motivate their student can contact Jack Davis at maseratifans@gmail.com. The dream ride program is also open to less academically-oriented students who achieve a significant personal goal.

If you’re a bit passed being a student, but want to reward yourself with a drive in a Lamborghini, check out a Dallas Lamborghini Gallardo Rental from PlatinumExotics.com. You can find an exotic car rental company in your home city using an online directory such as rentexoticcars.net.

It’s hard to think of a better way to get kids excited about exotic cars than what they have going at Maserati of Baltimore.

Post written by freelance web copywriter Eric Anderson. Eric’s recent projects have included content for a Conrad, Montana, custom auto graphics company and a Dallas exotic car rental blog microsite.

For many exotic car enthusiasts the Autobahn is a dream roadway.  The German controlled-access roadway is similar to a freeway here in the US, but with no set speed limit, it allows motorists to travel at speeds we would ordinarily never dream of.

What we think of as “the Autobahn” is actually a 12,200 kilometer network of freeways in Germany, many of which of which have a posted recommended speed of 130 kilometers per hour (81 miles per hour).  However, these roads are famous for not having a blanket speed limit.

(Photo Credit Adam Hicks, Fort Worth, TX.) All rights reserved.

Being able to drive a Lamborghini on these German highways is a dream for many people.  With a top speed of over 300 miles per hour, this car could easily quadruple the posted speed limit on many US freeways.

The autobahn network has some speed limits.  Road junctions, construction areas, and other dangerous spots have a posted speed limit.  Also, temporary speed limits are imposed when weather conditions make high speeds unsafe.  When this happens, monitors above the road display the temporary limit.

Even when there isn’t a general speed limit, the autobahn roadways are not without rules.  The “Rechtsfarghebot” rule requires motorists to use the left lane only for passing other drivers.  Unless they plan to pass, drivers are expected to remain in the right lane.

The autobahn construction was actually officially begun during the 1920s and 1930s.  The autobahns are considered the first limited-access, high-speed network of roads.  Many of the autobahns were originally paved during World War II to help provide secret airports in tunnels and nearby woods.

However, the autobahns were not used extensively as roadways until the 1950s when most of the roads were repaired.  Some sections of the autobahns were not repaired until after the German reunification in 1990.

Since many of us cannot really realize out dream of driving a Lamborghini on the Autobahn, we can at least make the Lamborghini part a reality.  There are several options for exotic car fans, including renting a Lamborghini or joining an exotic car sharing club.

Another option is to participate in an automotive dream tour.  Those who participate in dream tours get to drive five high-performance cars in a single day.  The cars total about 2,000 horsepower.  One of these cars in a Lamborghini Gallardo.

Kate Miller-Wilson is a professional freelance Search engine content writer living in the Twin Cities. Visit her website or email her for information about her freelance writing services.

When we think of electric cars, we usually picture something cute, small, and let’s face it, underpowered.  Smart Cars and other electric vehicles are really neat in terms of the technology that goes into them, and there’s no denying that they’re great for the planet.  Yet, they won’t be likely to satisfy most exotic car fans in the near future.

That’s where Neil Young and the Progressive Automotive X Prize come in.  Young and partner Jonathan Goodwin, a mechanic from Wichita, Kansas, are working to convert a 1959 Lincoln Continental to electric power.

So far, Young has invested about $120,000 in converting the car, and he expects the project to cost about $250,000 total.  The team tested the vehicle last spring.

“She was awesome,” Young told the Associated Press. “Her acceleration was incredible, she moved with hardly a sound; it was so quiet we could hear the wind through the tags of other cars.”

The Progressive Automotive X Prize, which Young and Goodwin plan to enter, is a race to develop a production-ready automobile capable of getting at least 100 miles per gallon.  More than 60 teams will participate in the cross-country race, which will take place this year and in 2010.

Neil Young photo by Robert Scoble and licensed under Creative Commons attribution only.

Goodwin and Young call the car the “Linc Volt.”  At two and a half tons, it’s not a lightweight vehicle, but it is fully electric.  Goodwin hopes to use the same technology to convert the type of vehicles Americans love to drive.

LincVolt photo by Thomas Kriese and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Only license.

“If you take that same technology,” he told The Wichita Eagle, “and you stream it down into something that’s more modern, or a large SUV, the capabilities are a guarantee there.”

There’s no denying that we love to drive cars that are powerful.  There are few people who wouldn’t jump at the chance to drive a Lamborghini or get behind the wheel of a Bentley.  If Neil Young and the X Prize have anything to do with it, we won’t have to sacrifice power to achieve good fuel economy.

Audi photo by Josh Davis of Josh Davis Photography in Fort Worth, TX. All rights reserved.

In the meantime, a lot of people are switching to exotic car sharing clubs, rather than shelling out the money to buy an exotic vehicle.  Exotic car clubs give members access to an entire garage of exotic vehicles, and they can still drive a fuel-efficient car for their daily commute.  Until automakers produce an electric car that’s fun to drive, car clubs are a good option.

Young told the Associated Press that creating an electric car and participating in the X Prize is part of his personal mission.

“You know, I thought long ago you could change the world by writing songs,” he said.  “But you can’t change the world by writing songs. Oh, you can inspire a few people, get some of them to change their thinking about something. But you can’t change the world by writing songs. But we could change it with this car.”

Kate Miller-Wilson is a professional freelance web content writer living in the Twin Cities. Visit her website or email her for information about her freelance writing services.

You know you’ve always wanted to let a 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo loose on the streets of Dallas Fort Worth. However, perhaps, remaining happily married has prevented you from dropping the nearly 2k neccessary to rent a Lamborghini Gallardo in Dallas?

(Image courtesy of Photographer Josh Davis - Fort Worth, TX. and used with permission.)

Well, DFW Elite Auto Rental, DFW’s premier luxury car rental company, is offering up a chance to drive a dream car for a full day for only $50.

They are holding a random drawing open only to the first 40 people to respond. That’s right a ticket gives you a 1-in-40 chance at a day driving the Lamborghini Gallardo or some other super exotic dream car.

The other cars that you may choose to drive instead of the Lamborghini: a Ferrari F430 F1, the brand new 2009 Audi R8, the Dodge Viper convertible, a sweet jet black Ferrari 360 Spyder. You can even convert the winning ticket to rental dollars. To enter call, DFW Elite Auto Rental at 214.247.4700.

Those odds aren’t bad for a day behind the wheel of a Lamborghini that typically rents for between $1450 and $1800 a day.

Winner must provide proof or proper insurance and hold a valid driver’s license. Winner may exchange winning ticket for rental dollars to use on other Dallas exotic car rentals from DFW Elite Auto Rental.com.

Americans are addicted to slang.  As recent examples, I would offer up “cool” which doesn’t have anything to do with temperature or “bad” which actually means good.
 
As the environmental movement rolls through our society, it too is adding words to our everyday parlance.  Consider the use of the word “green” to describe practically everything.  I recently came across a new slang term that I wasn’t actually sure what it meant. 

The term is hypermiling.
 
A little research enlightened me to the fact that hypermiling is the practice of incorporating extreme automobile driving techniques in order to get more MPG out of the old family battle wagon.
 
These hypermiling techniques are not just gimmicky; they can be effective.  For example, putting your car in neutral and coasting downhill, drafting closely behind other cars on the highway, and gentle acceleration can all add up to a 30% improvement in fuel efficiency.  Since nowadays a 30% increase in fuel economy can prevent your having to get a second mortgage…hypermiling is hot!

Although this is all fine and good, I must admit that when I first saw the term “hypermiling” I instantly thought of breaking the sound barrier in a 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo.  Imagine my surprise when I found out the real meaning of the word.

 
Armed with this knowledge, I had to contact my friend Ron Sturgeon to get his thoughts. Sturgeon is the author of Green Weenies and Due Diligence, a book that catalogs the meanings of some of the more colorful phrases in use in America’s boardrooms.

“Hypermiling sounds like it should mean driving really fast,” said the author and owner of a DFW exotic car rental company.

Good, I’m not crazy.
 
This just demonstrated that people’s perception of the meaning of words depends in part on their backgrounds.  I’m sure that if you start talking about hypermiling at an Al Gore rally, the eco-conscious crowd will instantly chip in with their own tales of high-mpg driving in their Priuses.

Hang around with Sturgeon and his friends and mention hypermiling and you may get an earful about the latest V12 or the new 2008 Viper SRT-10 that just arrived at his Tarrant County exotic car club.  Sturgeon is also apt to start making suggestions for exotic car rentals in Dallas TX that he can set you up with to increase your hypermiling experience.
 
Whatever you think of hypermiling, just make sure you don’t show up to Gore’s Earth Day rally in Sturgeon’s Ferrari 360 Spider rental because the lack of fuel efficiency may not be “green” enough to earn you “cool” status and that would be bad.

 
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