By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Snapped these pics last week while walking back to my car after work. I thought they looked kind of cool together.

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By Ryan Porter

IN-N-OUT Editor

You guys are probably thinking that day five in the CarDomain Fremont headquarters is going to be all crazy and you know what, you’re kinda right. We’ve got tons of cool contests we’re working on, and we’ve got water leaking through the roof–some worker guy with a hose caught major hell for that. In unrelated news I scored a sick parking spot today that’s protected in between two driveways. To top it off, one of the driveways belongs to one of our developers!

Oh yeah, I was tired of the van so I stole my girlfriend’s new ride and drove it in today.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

My Concord is the lucky recipient of the first CarDomain staff parking ticket since our HQ moved to Fremont! In yesterday’s poll, none of you predicted it–which is good, because now that I’m 38 bucks in the hole, I can’t afford to send anyone a T-shirt. The thing is, the Concord might look nondescript, but when it’s amidst a sea of Obama-stickered Priuses and biodiesel-sipping TDI Jetta wagons, a weird old red-blooded American car stands out like a turd in a punchbowl. Add to that a hostile local populace who’d give up their last bite of organic fair-trade wheatgrass risotto to see such a car get tagged, and you’ve got the perfect storm. Today, my luck ran out.

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Since CarDomain HQ moved to car-hating Fremont, I’ve found a whole new slew of things to be paranoid about, but one that never occurred to me was the prospect being towed from un-metered on-street parking. It’s been so long since I’ve had to regularly park any of my cars on the street that I’d forgotten this: you can get towed for having unpaid parking tickets. Any unpaid parking tickets. Crap! What else might they haul you away for? Expired tags? Vinyl top? Excessive pollution? I think I just felt my blood pressure go up a few points. If even this innocent-looking Kia can get jacked, then it’s only a matter of time before one of the CarDomain staff cars gets ticketed or towed. Which of us you think it’ll be?

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Fremont Day Two has been relatively uneventful. For the second day in a row I’ve been able to find a nice spot for my Volvo down by the bike path if I get in by 8AM or so. Stephanie’s red Trans Am sticks out like a sore thumb in this ‘hood!

More pics of CarDomain staff rides and random Fremont rides after the jump!

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

CarDomain successfully moved to freaky Fremont over the weekend, and so far we haven’t had any confrontations with the locals (though we almost had to get someone towed out of one of our parking spots). Weston has already set up the CarDomain lounge with an X-box and is in there playing Grand Theft Auto in his Snuggie. Jen and I spotted this sweet trash can toting Escort while we were out getting Vietnamese sandwiches across the street. Jen is pretty sure that it was painted with house paint. Anyway, so far so good. We’ll keep you posted.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

As we announced yesterday, CarDomain’s moving to freaky Fremont. And Ryan, who’s even more precious about his cars’ paint and wheels than I am, is having a bit of a meltdown over the prospect of having to park his A5 on the street like a chump. The rest of us have beater-commuters lined up already–Rob’s not worried about anything happening to his Volvo, and I’ve nominated my 50mpg diesel Escort as my sacrificial Fremont beater. But Ryan’s going to have to get something new altogether. We’ve narrowed it down to the following: a four-door Dodge Dart (plentiful, bulletproof, yet small enough to park), a Wrangler (short-wheelbase parking, plus it might be able to run over Priuses), this pink CRX (appropriate car for the Fremont freakshow), an art car (ditto), or a diesel VW Rabbit (he can run it on vegetable oil like the rest of the hippies). Cast your votes–what should Ryan get?

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

CarDomain World Headquarters is moving! The only problem: our new digs are located in an artsy-folksy neighborhood where people hate cars. Look what they did to this Honda just a couple of weeks ago. This is the kind of place where residents form coalitions to replace valuable parking real estate with bicycle lanes, and other such nonsense. And if they’re willing to throw an inoffensive Honda under the Honeybucket, imagine what they’re going to do to Weston’s GTI.  Hmm, we’re going to have to figure out what to do with our cars–and I predict some blogworthy confrontations with the locals in the near future. On the upshot, our landlord is a total gearhead and will surely prove to be a valuable ally. More soon!