I recently acquired a very very great domain related to cars in general.

I'm thinking of launching a forum very similar to "automotiveforums.com" but unsure.
Do you think its a good idea to have a forum that covers a wide variety of cars?
Not sure what I can add to make it different and unique. Maybe a "Garage Page" for my members?

Any suggestions would be nice

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There is a garage hack for vBulletin, if you were going to use that.

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what does the garage hack do?

Lets you upload pictures of your car, put specs, and people can leave comments

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Making a non-specific car related forum is hard nowadays. It's not impossible, but it is much harder than a specific car/group of cars.

You may think "if I only use _____ car, then I'm limiting my memberships", but in reality, you're being more specific and are going to get a much better target audience and people will stay around because there is model/make specific information there, without having to search through other non-related automotive ideas.

Automotiveforums is huge, but I dislike it, it's too broad and I don't see too many actual car nuts on it, more teens that aren't too sure of what they're doing.

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my domain is "carz.com" so I can't have it really in a specific car niche.
I'm trying to think of a way to have it so that "car people" will enjoy staying.
The only thing I can think of is a user garage page and point system for gas gift cards.

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That's a pretty cool domain. You could maybe consider doing something with subdomains, so:

ford.carz.com
jap.carz.com
custom.carz.com
classic.carz.com

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Yeah. You could do a Datsun/Nissan Z Car forum if you're interested.

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I don't want to discourage you but there are so many well established HUGE car sites out there that it will be hard to attract quality members to a general car forum.

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