Beep, Beep, Um, Beep, Beep, Yeah!
As long as motor vehicles have existed, it’s been about sex. According to Paul McCartney, ‘drive my car’ was an old blues euphemism for intercourse, so he wrote Baby You Can Drive My Car on that very theme. Consider Wilson Pickett’s none-too-subtle Mustang Sally, ‘I bought you a brand new Mustang, a nineteen sixty five. Now you come around signifying a woman. You don't wanna let me ride’. But The Who did it best with Magic Bus, ‘Thruppence and sixpence every day just to drive to my baby. Thruppence and sixpence each day, cause I drive my baby every way’. The Urban Dictionary calls car sex the ‘dashboard confessional’, ‘getting your oil changed’ and a ‘seatbelt supreme’. Car lingo, however, isn't just about clumsy teenage backseat fumblings. There’s a lot more going on linguistically. Check it out.