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"Did the car move for you, too?"
"Yeah, I forgot the parking brake."

"Automobiles. A type of land vehicle used for transport. Also used in teenage mating rituals."

Two characters have sex in the back seat of a car. Extra points if it's somewhere with a name like "Make-Out Point", or in the back of a Shag Wagon made for this purpose.

Being in the back seat, while typical, isn't 100% required. It also happens in the front seat, though it's more cramped. A different kind of bonus points if it takes place while one of them is driving (which is absolutely possible but extremely dangerous just from a distraction standpoint).

Moral or divine punishment for Auto Erotica (particularly at an isolated Make-Out Point) often manifests itself in the form of a Serial Killer on a prison break looking for fresh meat, a cop making his rounds, or an overprotective knight templar father armed with a shotgun or a baseball bat and out to defend his daughter's purity. Other forms of interruption, with varying levels of humiliation, abound.

Truth in Television, obviously — the romantic potentials of cars have been recognized from the beginning of the automotive age. The Edwardians dubbed them "brothels-on-wheels". Teenagers have been, and largely remain, the traditional people portrayed as doing this, due to not having privacy at home, and not being able to afford a hotel room. Not as common as it used to be, as today both parents usually have full-time jobs, giving teens more opportunity for time alone in the house, but it's still there.

Not to be confused with sexual attraction/relationships with cars, robots, or vacuum cleaners, sexy people posing on the outside of cars, (or actual autoerotica). It is also not to be confused with Car Porn (where the "porn" part is metaphorical).

Supertrope of Don't Come A-Knockin', where the car is noticeably rocking around.

Compare Mile-High Club (having sex in an airplane in flight).


Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • In this Chrysler Concorde commercial, Savannah learns that she was named after the place where she was conceived, and so was her baby sister, Concorde.
  • Around 1970, a rather innocuous European car (Renault?) had a magazine ad touting its qualities as macho, including seats that folded down into a bed (later ads dropped a line about 'extending your manhood' at that point).
  • A Peugeot ad consisted of little more than a couple having (very enthusiastic) sex in the advertised car.
  • This Volkswagen ad has a couple enjoy some quality time in their car. Cut to them buying a new Volkswagen with a kid. Then they do it a second time and buy a new Volkswagen with a second kid. Then a third time, same results. The final shot has their newest vehicle shaking... from the shenanigans of the kids inside.
  • In a commercial for State Farm auto insurance, a teen girl just got her own car with her own insurance and no longer needs to drive her parents' hand-me-down. The parents present said car as a "surprise" gift to her younger brother, who laments that he'll never get a date in this car. The dad says "We had a lot of great dates in this car," much to the son's disgust.
  • In a TV ad for a classical music radio station, two cars (a Camaro and a Volvo) are parked at "Make-Out Point" overlooking the city below. Both cars are rocking on their shocks, and we can hear music coming from both: pop music from the Camaro and classical music from the Volvo. After a few seconds the pop music ends and the Camaro stops rocking, but the classical music and the Volvo's motion continue. As the camera pans up to view the stars overhead the voiceover announces, "The average pop song lasts three and a half minutes, but the average classical song is fifteen minutes..."

    Anime & Manga 
  • In Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, when Earth-Lucy asks Edolas-Lucy how she and Edolas-Natsu ended up getting married, the latter says that "he came really strong on her" when they were in his car.
  • A chapter of Futari Ecchi is dedicated to this trope. Containing useful advice (both social and hygienic) on how to do it properly. (Like explanations on why it's inadvisable to do it on the front seat or why it's preferable to turn off the lights.)
  • Initial D:
    • One episode has Takumi and Natsuki making out in Takumi's Trueno, to the point where we see the car rocking for a bit.
    • Subverted in the Second Stage OVA when Itsuki literally sleeps with a girl in his Levin.
  • In the Junjou Romantica manga, this happens in a parking garage after Misaki sprains his ankle and Usagi-san (of course) comes to his rescue.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Mikazuki and Atra were only even able to have sex in a mobile suit cockpit (or perhaps floating around right outside it). Thanks to abusing his suit's Brain/Computer Interface, Mikazuki was half-paralyzed whenever he wasn't hook up to it.
  • In a flashback in Episode 10 of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Fastener had sex with a cheerleader in his convertible.
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena employs this trope in a way that deliberately makes it unclear how just what kind of business people are getting up to. Every major character takes a ride in the "Akio Car", and the car itself explicitly represents the world of adulthood - it is powerful, sexy, and seems simultaneously luxurious and sleazy.
    • On the more literal end, Akio indulges Wakaba's girlish crush on him by taking her for a drive, which is the most innocuous use of the car in the show. This leads into Akio's seduction of Utena in the car as Anthy looks on from afar. The Duellists' rides to the End of the World are more subject to interpretation. There are psychosexual implications for all of them, and Ruka and Shiori pretty obviously have sex in the back seat, but the ride takes on different sorts of meanings for each of the characters.
    • All of this contributes to an automotive/driving-based symbolic language, and the show puts it to devastating use in the episode where Utena has (dubiously consensual) sex with Akio to convey aspects of Utena's feelings about this event that she is barely even consciously aware of.
  • Happens in Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi when Ritsu and Takano go on a date on Takano's birthday. It gets a Sexy Discretion Shot in the anime adaptation. Ritsu later claims his memories of Takano's car aren't exactly good as a result.

    Comic Books 
  • Scott Pilgrim and Kim Pine are seen doing this in a flashback.
  • "Hot Rod Boogie", generally regarded as the first true Cherry Comics story, is all about this.
  • Domino Lady: In the Eros Comix miniseries, Domino Lady and Det. Rob Wyatt start having sex in the back of Ellen's limousine when they are affected by the Mind-Control Music. Their liaison is cut short when Delglyn drives the car off a bridge and into the river.
  • Red Ears: One gag has a young couple having sex in a car. The girl then says the guy was great and she adds that the fact that it was "their first time" was the most exciting part. The next shot shows the guy tick off another stripe on the side of his car.
  • Averted in W.I.T.C.H.: a minor character tries this on Irma, who was using her older and more attractive Guardian form to flirt with him, but she wasn't ready and accidentally turned him into a toad.

    Fan Works 
  • In the second season of Children of Time, the Holmeses have their first time since their reunion in the back of Beth's police cruiser. ...they really did wait a very long time for this.
  • This Engine Sentai Go-onger fanfic involving Sosuke and Miu making love in the backseat of his car. Much like the Misfiled Dreams example above, it's lampshaded due to the major car motif of the Go-ongers.
  • In Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen, two gay men and a gay panda all manage to fit in the back of a car to have a three-way. The fact that a panda took part (and owns the car) means the car was most likely a semi-truck of some description.
  • In a deliberate reference to NCIS (see Live-Action TV, below), in From Bajor to the Black Eleya loses her virginity with another member of her training platoon in the back of an infantry fighting vehicle.
    Author's Note: Bajorans are basically post-Holocaust space Jews in a lot of ways and Eleya's a badass action girl, so what the hey?
  • Guys Being Dudes: There's a flashback of Candela and Arlo making out in the back of her car when he comes out to her. Spark and Arlo do the same in Arlo's car after their visit to the Sleepless Bakery.
  • In one HookerVerse fic, The Cinema Snob has sex with the Critic in the back of his limo.
  • KITT Copycat had Pepper and Tony having sex at the back of his car while 'JARVIS was driving'.
  • In Lucius Malfoy, Would-Be Murderer Harry and Hermione have sex in the back seat of a 1981 Nissan someone left him in their will.
  • One chapter of Meg's Boyfriend had Meg and Zack doing it in a tank. Of course, it's not at all comfortable, and they end up blasting Cleveland's house.
  • Naturally, since Misfiled Dreams has cars as a major theme like the original story, this had to happen at least once. It's even lampshaded with the line "Somehow… I knew we'd wind up doing this in a car."
  • In My Immortal, Draco and Enoby have sex in Draco's flying car.
  • My Old Kentucky Home:
    Harry: Whoa is that an E type [Jaguar]?
    Lily: I told you Sirius was nuts about cars. Back before you were conceived he and James had a stupid Dodge Charger brought over they rebuilt. That might actually have been where you were conceived after I think about it.
  • In Timing is Everything, Beast Boy and Raven have their first time in the T-Car. Cyborg (who considers the car his "baby") doesn't find out until it turns out Raven became pregnant during that time, at which point he is really upset at his car being desecrated, demands to be the child's godfather and forces Beast Boy to clean the car something like 50 times straight. Then Beast Boy recommends that Starfire sits in the car during the next IVF attempt... the Law of Inverse Fertility has been at work for her and Robin a bit too hard the last time.
  • Vow of Nudity: Fiora keeps a succubus company in her carriage while Haara's washing the outside to pay off a debt.

    Films — Animated 
  • Rock and Rule has a scene like this, although by all appearances the cars themselves are already there, and just 'borrowed' for the festivities.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • 68 Kill: After murdering Ben and his wife, and stuffing Violet into the trunk, Liza and Chip have violent sex in their car.
  • In American Graffiti, Toad and Debbie make out in Steve's Chevy. Steve tries to have sex with Laurie in her car, but she doesn't want it.
  • American Honey: Jake and Star have sex in the front seat of his car.
  • American Pie has this gem in the front seat of the parked vehicle:
    Chris: Suck me, beautiful
    It doesn't work.
  • Animal House includes a scene in which Babs is implied to have given Greg Marmalard a hand-job in his car - this isn't shown, she appears sitting in the front seat, removing a rubber glove...
  • The inciting incident of Army of the Dead involves a honeymooning couple crashing into a U.S. military convoy on a highway outside Las Vegas, because the driver was getting fellatio from his new wife.
  • A.W.O.L.: Rayna starts fingering Joey in the car before she leaves for the Army.
  • Subversion: in Back to the Future, George McFly intervenes to prevent Biff from raping George's future wife Lorraine in Biff's car. Then again, Lorraine seems like she may or may not be trying to get someone else in the backseat before Biff shows up. Specifically, Marty.
  • Beast (2017): At one point, Moll and Pascal have sex in his truck. It gets a Cerebus Call-Back when she and Pascal are driving down the road at the end of the film, and, having learned that, he's the killer, Moll grabs the steering wheel and drives them off the road, killing him.
  • Bedazzled (1967): Stanley wishes for himself and the woman he loves to be really nice people, madly in love with each other, in a cozy domestic setting - and ends up in just that scenario...with her married to his best friend. They try trysting in her car, but they're so nice that they're positively grievous with guilt for even trying it.
  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Harris has sex with Ashley in the back of her Rolls Royce. During the act, Ashley keeps talking about how nothing compares to sex in a Rolls. "Not even a Bentley!"
  • Bloody Homecoming: Nora and Roddy have sex in the back of (somebody else's) pickup truck in the parking lot during the homecoming game.
  • Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman: Santiago and the Machine Gun Woman have sex in her jeep after he extracts a bullet from her side. Machine Gun Woman is still tied up at the time.
  • Camila: The 19th-century equivalent thereof, as Camila and Ladislao have sex inside a carriage.
  • Happens in Candy where it's a sign of Dan and Candy coming back together again in their decision to try to go clean in the countryside.
  • The B-movie The Chase (1994) with Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson features their characters having sex in a car. While Sheen is driving. And being chased by police.
  • Being an Awful British Sex Comedy, this trope is naturally present in Confessions of a Driving Instructor, although Timmy Lea finds out repeatedly that having sex in a car (a British car at that) is quite difficult.
  • Bizarrely exaggerated in The Counselor. In one of the movie's most infamous scenes, the drug dealer Reiner recalls his girlfriend Malkina once telling him that she wanted to "fuck [his] car"; he assumed that she wanted to have sex with him in his car, but she assured him that she meant exactly what she said. In a flashback scene, Malkina then proceeds to bring herself to orgasm by masturbating herself against the windshield of Reiner's car while he watches. It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context.
  • Crank: Chev gets Eve to do this to him while they're being chased by gang members.
    • He's very upset that she doesn't finish the job, but she points out that he needs to keep his adrenalin up, not fall asleep immediately after. In frustration, he walks out and shoots the bad guys, much to Eve's horror.
      • Then again, it could be payback for him not finishing the job earlier in the movie, when he forced her to have sex in public in front of dozens of people (she resisted at first but got really into it later).
  • The opening scene of Death Screams provides a variation with two lovers on top of a motorcycle.
  • Parodied and Averted in Dragnet, in a scene where Streebek tries to figure out where Friday is:
    Streebek: For a minute I pictures him introducing Ms. Swail to the one piece of his equipment not issued by the department. But then, I figured Joe Friday wouldn't be the type to spring for some third-rate motel. And since making love in a Yugo was a scientific impossibility, I knew something was up.
  • Dressed to Kill: Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson), a sexually unsatisfied suburban housewife, both seduces and is seduced by a handsome stranger in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; he consummates the seduction by dangling her glove (which she'd taken off earlier as a flirtation tactic) from the window of a taxicab. The couple have sex in the backseat, watched by The Peeping Tom cab driver in his rear-view mirror, culminating in Kate having a vigorous climax while being felt up by her partner.
  • In Drive, He Said, Hector and Olive have sex in the front seat of a car, with her clutching the steering wheel.
  • Implied in this exchange from Dude, Where's My Car?:
    Jesse: Hey, have you seen my car?
    Christy Boner: Well, I saw it last night. I saw the back seat.
    Jesse: No, I'm talking about the whole thing.
  • In Eight Legged Freaks, Scarlett Johansson's character is a teenage girl whose boyfriend is trying to have sex with in his pickup truck. She tells him she doesn't want to lose her virginity in a car seat, which prompts him to suggest the back of the truck. She proceeds to zap him in the nuts with her mother's taser. They get back together at the end, though.
  • In Eyes of a Stranger, the titular serial killer is dumping a body at the beach when he interrupts a young couple having sex in their car. Since Sex Signals Death he naturally kills them as well.
  • Fifty Shades Freed: Ana and Christian have sex in the car at the parking lot, after car racing to escape from a mysterious stalker.
  • Forbidden: Tracy Ryan and Jason Schnuit have sex in the front seat of a Chevy Suburban.
  • In Forrest Gump, the titular character interrupts Jenny, who is apparently in the middle of this. He thought she was being raped. She wasn't.
  • Gattaca: The main character was conceived that way, which means he's NOT a Gattaca Baby.
''"I was conceived in the Riviera … but not the French Riviera. The Detroit variety."'
  • At the beginning of GoldenEye, James Bond seduces his evaluator after a car chase in his Aston Martin DB5. He even has champagne and glasses stashed in the center console to help things along.
  • Discussed in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) when Memphis and Sway are waiting for the owners of the car they're trying to steal to close the blinds. They start slinging around Double Entendres about said car being a stick shift, and then start making out. But before things get too hot and heavy the blinds finally close and they have to scramble back in position to drive the car away.
  • In The Graduate, Mrs. Robinson tells Ben that Elaine was conceived in the back of a Ford.
  • In Grease, Rizzo and Kenickie have sex in his car. Also, Danny tries to have sex with Sandy in his car, but she doesn't want it and gets away from him.
  • In a deleted scene for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Snape goes around docking house points from students making out in the carriages, while Karkaroff follows him and tries to get him to show off his Dark Mark.
  • In Heathers, J.D. and Veronica rapidly strip and pretend to engage in this, after having killed a couple of football players, when a couple of police officers approach. The next scene opens with them still in the car, J.D. with his clothes and hair slightly disheveled and Veronica lying down with her head in his lap, mirroring an earlier scene where they were cuddling just after having had sex. Some viewers have taken this to mean something else happened offscreen, but it's never stated outright.
  • In Hell's Highway, Lucinda starts giving Jack a hand job while he is driving, before cutting his dick off with a knife.
  • Played with in The Film of the Book of High Fidelity—Rob and Laura have sex in the *front* seat of her car.
  • H.O.T.S.: John and Cindy have sex in his van.
  • In The Ice Storm, Jim and Elena have found out that their respective wife and husband have been cheating on them. Being the last ones left at a "key party", they have quick and clumsy sex in his car but regret it immediately afterwards.
  • Invasion U.S.A. (1985): Two teenagers are sitting in a car (although it's unclear whether they intend to go past the heavy kissing stage) in the suburbs scene. Staying in the car helps keep them alive when Rostov starts blowing up the nearby houses.
  • This happens twice in K-9. The film opens up showing two people making out heavily in their car, though no nudity is presented. The other scene is when the dog, Jerry Lee, spots a poodle in the other car in front of him. This then leads to Jerry Lee and the poodle presumably 'doing it' in the car, though it's not shown, it is implied from Dooley's words ("What are you doing?!") what they are doing, as well as showing the car shaking.
  • In the fourth Lake Placid movie, Brittany and Drew sneak back to the parked school bus and have sex inside. Later on, while jet-skiing, they position her so that they can make out on the seat while Drew's driving.
  • The League of Gentlemen. One of the robbers goes to steal a truck for The Caper, only to be surprised to find the driver making out in the cab with his girl, so he has to find another one.
    Driver: What's your game?!
    Race: Sorry about that mate—looking for the same thing myself!
    Driver: Get lost!
  • The Lives of Others: The minister rapes Christa-Maria in his car.
  • The Living End, a road trip movie about sex and death, features several instances of this, including the traditional "back seat of the car" location. More memorably, in one scene Luke gives Jon a blow job while he drives.
  • Liz In September: Eva and her husband have sex in the front seat of his car before she leaves him.
  • In Lord Love a Duck, high-schooler Roddy McDowall takes new friend Tuesday Weld to the local make-out spot - with the express purpose of loudly disrupting the necking couples.
  • Subverted and averted in The Lost Boys: a disposable couple of characters are in a red-lit car, the man making advances towards the woman (who is more interested in reading comics) when a bunch of vampires shows up and kills them.
  • The Loved Ones: During the school formal, Jamie and Mia are busted by a teacher while having sex in Jamie's car in the school parking lot.
  • Low Tide: Alan and Mary have an intimate moment in his car on a rainy day.
  • Mallrats in a Strange Minds Think Alike series of gags, everyone infers the same thing about Shannon (Ben Affleck).
    Trish: He tried to screw me somewhere very uncomfortable.
    Brodie: The backseat of a Volkswagen?
  • Mirror Mirror (1990): Charleen and Jeff start are making out in Jeff's car, and Charleen starts to to give him a blowjob before Jeff stops her—as a result of Megan's magic—and leaves in search of Megan.
  • The Miseducation of Cameron Post: Cameron is caught while having sex with her secret girlfriend Coley in a car together.
  • Mom and Dad: Brent is shown in a flashback having sex with his girlfriend at the time in the front seat while driving around crazily in his dad's car.
  • In My Science Project, Vince makes out with his girlfriend Irene in a car decorated with a disco ball and Christmas lights.
  • In National Lampoon's Vacation, Ellen's head gets stuck between Clark's legs and a steering wheel because she wanted to take a nap and Clark hoped for a road head. With kids in the back.
  • No Way Out (1987): Kevin Costner's and Sean Young's characters hook up with each other at a diplomatic party in Washington and slip away to have sex in the back seat of a limousine while they're driven around the city by a delighted chauffeur who adjusts his rear-view mirror to watch the proceedings until he's chided by Costner to keep his eyes on the road.
  • An Office Romance ends with this: the main characters are last seen in a passionate embrace in a taxi seat (after a good deal of throwing things at each other), and then the titles tell us that nine months later, a son was born.
  • Subverted yet played straight in the movie Once Bitten. Mark Kendall (Jim Carrey) tries to get to first base with Robin Pierce (Karen Kopkins) but she doesn't want to make out with Mark, especially in an ice cream van. Frustrated, Mark steps out of his ice cream van only to notice in utter shock that EVERYONE ELSE was getting busy: the fleet of parked cars rocking and swaying from lovers' sowing their wild oats. Poor Mark.
  • In Parenthood, Helen tries this on her husband Gil while they are driving. Jump to the next scene: The car is totaled.
    • After which the cop walks up and asks Helen and Gil what happened. Gil's response? "Well, honey, do you want to show him?"
  • In the Bollywood movie "PK", the titular character refers to it as a 'dancing car', due to the way the car moves when there is sex inside. These 'dancing cars' provide him money and clothes during his stay on Earth.
  • Pleasantville: In which the sex act turns much of the town into color. Several at one go later in the movie.
  • In Poor Pretty Eddie, Liz tries to escape the lodge in a guest's car. Instead of taking her to civilization, he pulls over in the woods and forces her to give him a blowjob.
  • Priest (1994): Greg and his boyfriend-of-sorts Graham get arrested when they are caught by the police in the act. This gets public and pretty scandalous, as Greg is a Catholic priest.
  • Prom Wars: Jen B. is going down on Geoffrey in his car when the other A&C girls happen by and sternly remind them that none of the girls are supposed to date or make out with the boys from either of the neighboring schools until after the prom competition.
  • In Revolutionary Road, April and Shep have sex in his car.
  • Rise: Blood Hunter: Sadie offers a hitchhiker sex in her car, but it's only a ruse for her to feed on him.
  • In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Janet sings about how "heavy petting" only leads to "seat wetting".
  • In Ruthless People, Chief Benton has wild sex with a prostitute at night in his car while Earl Mott is filming both of them in an attempt to prove Sam Stone murdered his wife.
  • Saturday Night Fever:
    • One of Tony's friends is taking too long in the backseat with a girl he met at the disco, much to the annoyance of another buddy of theirs and his hookup. The couple in the backseat finishes with Tony and his friends watching. After which the guy asks her, "So, what did you say your name was?"
    • Tony has sex with Annette later, but stops when he finds out she's not "fixed" (no pill, no "IOU", no diaphragm). The implication of course is that he wasn't using a condom. At least it averts Can't Get Away with Nuthin'.
    • Also, Tony tries to have sex with Stephanie in his car, but she doesn't want it and gets away from him.
    • And Tony's friends take turns raping Annette in the backseat in another scene.
  • In the first Scary Movie, a girl got run over by her father because her mother was giving him a blowjob.
  • In Scream and Scream Again, Keith picks up women in nightclubs and then drives to remote commons where they start making out in his sports car before he murders them.
  • Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Dodge and Penny have sex in their car after leaving a restaurant.
  • There's a very... different take on car sex in the movie Southland Tales. NSFW video excerpt.
  • In the opening scene of Splendor in the Grass, the protagonists, Bud and Deanie are making out in Bud's car (Bud would like to do more, but Deanie doesn't let him). This was probably a privilege of the rich in 1928 when the film is set.
  • Starkweather: At the drive-in, Charlie and Caril Ann are having a deep and meaningful conversation in the front seat of the car while Bob and Barbara are engaging in some very heavy petting in the back seat.
  • Student Services: Laura's second client can't afford a hotel room.
  • The Summer of Sangaile: Sangaile has sex with Saulius in his car very early on, though she's more concerned with listening to the sound of planes flying by overhead.
  • In Super Troopers, Foster and Ursula go at it in the backseat of his police cruiser... which doesn't open from the inside. They have to remove the door from its mount to get out afterwards.
  • This trope is invoked in Scorsese's Taxi Driver when the title character talks about his passenger's habits.
  • Then She Found Me:
    • April's biological mother that gave her up for adoption first says that April's father is Steve McQueen; turns out that really April's mother "fucked" her next-door neighbor in the backseat of his car while at the drive-in (the movie that was playing was Bullitt, a Steve McQueen film).
    • April and her ex-husband almost do this but stop.
  • Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead: Jimmy gets Lucinda pregnant by having sex with her in his car.
  • Believe it or not, this trope applies to Titanic. In 1912, on a ship in the middle of the North Atlantic, on a ship with enough beds for over a thousand passengers, Jack Dawson and Rose Dewitt Bukater wind up having sex in the back of a car which is being transported in the ship's hold.
  • Tragedy Girls begins with what appears to be the standard opening for a slasher film: a blonde girl and her boyfriend making out in the backseat of a car with steamed-up windows at the local make-out spot (in this case, a covered bridge). The girl hears a noise and sends the boy out to investigate. However, when the Serial Killer does show up, the film goes in a completely different direction.
  • In the first part of Transformers (2007), Bumblebee seems to be trying to encourage Sam and Mikaela to do this. The situation is made weirder by the fact that Bumblebee is the car. The ending scene shows Sam and Mikaela making out on top of Bumblebee's hood while the other Autobots calmly watch in vehicle mode, quite possibly making the term "Auto-erotica" a little too literal.
  • The Tripper: When Samantha is looking for Ivan she slides the van door only to find Jade and Muff having sex inside. They don't stop while telling her that they haven't seen him.
  • Zig-Zagged in True Lies. When Simon and Helen are driving in his Corvette, Simon acts like they're being followed and pushes her head into his lap, telling her to "keep your head down until we're out of the city." While Helen doesn't actually take the bait, it looks awfully suspicious to Harry's surveillance team.
  • In Les Valseuses, the two titular crooks pick up apathetic and terminally bored hairdresser Marie-Ange, who tags along for the ride. She informs them that she is incapable of orgasm, whatever they do to her, either singly or collectively. The guys take this as a challenge. In one scene, Pierrot is less than enchanted at being the third wheel, driving their car around a French city by night whilst his buddy Jean-Claude (played by Gérard Depardieu) makes love to Marie-Ange in the back seat, practically testing out the proposition. She does admit to a certain frisson of interest, but no orgasm.
  • In Vampires vs. Zombies, Carmilla and Tessa have lesbian sex in the Jeep on the side of the road.
  • Parodied and subverted in Whip It when the protagonist comes home to find her father's van rocking outside the house, and hear him shouting "YES! YES!". It turns out that he's watching a football game on a TV in the van because her mother won't let him watch in the house because he gets too excited.
  • The White Orchid: Claire gets fingered by a woman in a taxi as they go home together.
  • The Wolf of Snow Hollow: Jenna and her boyfriend are having an intimate encounter in a parked car (complete with foggy windows) when the wolf tries to kill her.
  • In Young Lady Chatterley II, Cynthia and the Count have sex in the back of her limousine as it is being driven back to her estate. Charles the chauffeur notices; Professor Bohart doesn't.

    Jokes 
  • Simple joke for the trope: "Children in the backseat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause children."
  • There is a joke about a driver picking up a hitchhiking girl with a jerrycan. Turns out it's filled with fuel, which, according to her, tends to run out in all male-driven cars as soon as they get near a forest.
  • Another joke is about a man stating to his female companion that the break is serious, and they will have to stay there for the night, to which the girl replies "let's just stay here for the night quickly, and drive on".
  • A guy accepts the invitation of another man to climb into the back seat of his car where there's a woman good to go. While they are having sex a cop shines his flashlight into the back seat:
    Man: "It's all right officer. She's my wife."
    Cop: "I'm sorry. I didn't know."
    Man: "Neither did I before you turned on the light."
  • Just before midnight, a police officer sees a car parked in the dark in the forest. He walks up with his flashlight and inside is a young couple.
    Cop: "So what are you doing, sir?"
    Man: "Oh, I'm just reading this book, officer."
    Cop: "And what are you doing, miss?"
    Woman: "I was also just reading, officer."
    Cop: "Son...how old is she?"
  • Two people are having sex in the back of a car when the man suddenly has a heart attack whilst still joined with his partner. The woman freaks but can't get him off her; she nevertheless manages to summon help, who get the emergency services to come out. They determine that the only way to get him out of there is to take the roof off the car. The fire department saws the roof of the car and manages to get the guy out, and as the paramedics are taking him away a police officer tries to comfort the woman, who is sobbing hysterically. She says "Don't worry, your husband's going to be fine." The woman replies "Fuck him, he's not my husband. It's my husband's car, though."
  • Two teenagers (the girl is blonde) are making out in the front seat of the guy's car. He suggestively asks if she wants to go to the backseat, she says no. They keep making out, he asks again, she still says no. After the third round, he finally asks why she doesn't want to move...
    Blonde: Because I can't kiss you if we're on different sides of the car, duh!

    Literature 
  • Stephen King:
    • In Thinner, the protagonist's wife gives him a handjob while he's driving. Which starts the plot rolling... (In the film version, the handjob is changed to a blowjob.)
    • In Christine, the protagonist tries this with his girlfriend in the titular car, but she doesn't want. This does not end well.
    • In The Tommyknockers, when Bobbi's truck explodes, Gardener recalls that they once had sex in it "during some stupid Ryan O'Neal picture".
    • In Carrie, Tommy Ross and Sue Snell have sex in his Ford. Carrie's fundamentalist mother often mentions "the evil that goes on in parking lots".
    • In Gerald's Game, Jessie recalls having sex with her prom date at the back seat of his father's Oldsmobile.
  • The Alice Network: Charlie often "parks" with boys. She has many one-night-stands that way and becomes known as a cheap date.
  • Amelia Peabody: In "The Deeds of the Disturber" Downplayed a bit. Emerson and Amelia make out in the back of a (horse-drawn) cab on the way home from a stressful day. Amelia notes that something about cabs - she's not sure if it's the smell of the leather, the sound of the horses' hoofbeats, or the dark enclosed space - tends to inspire Emerson.
  • In American Gods, Shadow's wife does this with his next-door neighbor while he's in prison. Except that it was the whilst driving variant, and they both ended up dead in the resulting crash. Shadow takes this revelation considerably better than his neighbour's widow.
  • Blaze's sexual experience in Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) happens in the back of the minivan she drives her little brother around in. The only real consequence is him finding her bra in the back the next day and giving her a really funny look.
  • In Bloodlines, Sydney loves cars so much that Adrian suggests they have sex in his car as a special birthday treat for her, even though they have access to his apartment. And it ultimately leads to disaster after Sydney loses Adrian's phone (containing text messages referencing their relationship) in the car, where it is found by her sister.
  • Cemetery Bird: Shortly after Jay starts working as a firefighter, she and her coworkers go on a day trip to Roosevelt Lake. On the way back, Peters and Robin have drunken sex in the backseat while Jay tries to ignore the noises and the smell.
  • J.G. Ballard's Crash is about a subculture of people with a Fetish for car crashes that deliberately crash cars and have sex in the wrecks. Adapted into a rather unpleasant movie by David Cronenberg.
  • In the horror novel The Dollmaker, Stephen and Jessica consummate their relationship in her car. Of course, the fallout is on her brother, who is murdered (with just cause) by the dolls.
  • In Barbara Wersba's The Dream Watcher, Albert expresses his disapproval of this sort of thing.
    As a matter of fact, I think their attitude towards sex is depressing. Because I am almost totally convinced that the point of sex is not to get some poor girl in the back of some broken-down car and make her hysterical. I don't think girls even like wrestling around in somebody's father's car and losing their reason. I don't know. I'm probably neurotic or impotent or something, but I don't think sex should be crude.
  • A cheesy horror novel called Ghoul (not Michael Slade's), in which a cop interrupts a lover's-lane backseat tryst by a couple of teenagers. To the small-town cop's dismay, it turns out they're both girls.
  • Girls Don't Hit: Joss fingers Echo to climax while they're sitting in the car at one point.
  • In one of the Honor Harrington novels, two bit characters who haven't seen each other in a while reminisce about stealing an admirals hovercar and bringing some prostitutes and booze along
  • How to Survive a Horror Movie lists car sex as one of the seven deadly sins that will get you killed in a horror movie.
  • In My Dark Vanessa, Strane drives Vanessa into the woods, miles from the nearest town, and fingers her in a blueberry barren.
  • Naked Came the Stranger: Gillian gives Marvin Goodman a blowjob as they drive towards a toll booth, causing a traffic jam behind them and a minor car accident.
  • Cat, the Night Huntress, picks up vampires in bars, drives them to a secluded rural area and just when the vamps think they're about to have dinner and dessert, she kills them. One of Cat's would-be victims turns out to be a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, and they eventually start dating. They drive to the same location and playfully enact the same conversation as before, only this time with a happy ending.
    "Not much room in here. Want to go outside so you can stretch out?"
    "Oh no. Right here. Love to do it in a truck."
  • The back of a panel van is the preferred location for teen sex in Puberty Blues. This carries through to the series as well.
  • Serge Storms: In Atomic Lobster, Serge and Rachael have sex in the backseat of his car at least twice within a day of meeting each other and then proceed to argue about whether to follow this up with doing drugs or driving to a nearby tourist definition.
  • In Story Of A Girl by Sara Zarr, Deanna is found by her father having sex in the backseat...at 13, with her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tommy. This wrecked her life, branded her the school slut, and is the opening of the book.
  • These Words Are True and Faithful: In one passage, Ernie makes Sam give him road head.
  • Twelve Days: Thor Swenson is driving while being given a blowjob by his assistant when the fatal convulsions strike.
  • Ugly Love:
    • In Chapter 17, Miles and Tate have sex in Tate's car, unable to wait to get back to her apartment (where they have sex again).
    • Near the end of the book, Miles and Tate have sex inside his airplane, though the scene qualifies more as a variation on this than the Mile-High Club as the plane is landed and otherwise unoccupied at the time.
  • In a mild variation, Don and Denise in We Can't Rewind don't actually do it in his car, but they do have a rather steamy make-out session there, and she gets him to propose marriage to her so they can do these things properly.
  • In The Weirdness, Billy considers signing up for a ZipCar solely for this purpose, as his girlfriend has 11 roommates and his apartment is also tiny, which is a problem considering his "room" doesn't even have a door. Or a fourth wall, for that matter.
  • In both Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies, reference is made to Count Giamo Casanunda, the Disc's second-greatest lover, demonstrating his skill in the back of a sedan-chair. The second book also has this exchange, when he's a passenger on Nanny Ogg's Flying Broomstick:
    Casanunda: Tell me, has anyone ever tried to...
    Nanny: No. You'd fall off.
    Casanunda: You don't know what I was going to ask.
    Nanny: Bet you half a dollar?
  • In The World According to Garp, Garp's wife gives her lover a blowjob in a parked car. This ends disastrously when Garp discovers the couple, becomes enraged and rear-ends their car with his, causing Garp's wife to bite off her lover's penis.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: When Bobbi and Lance reconcile, they have sex in the back of the team SUV.
  • After killing the KGB officer who once raped her and dumping his body, Elizabeth and Philip from The Americans make out in the back of their Oldsmobile. The subtext is that it's the first time it's been "real" for them.
  • Average Joe: Melana Scanlon tells of her makeout session with hunk Jason Peoples in the limo:
    Melana: We were kissing and like, I looked over and the windows were fogged. I was like, we fogged the windows.
    • They were probably engaged in heavy petting and not actual intercourse though.
  • Avocado Toast: Elle is having sex with a guy in the car during the very first scene.
  • A couple attempting to do this in Boardwalk Empire are interrupted by a bloodied dying man arriving on the scene.
  • The Boys (2019): In "Nothing Like It in the World", Butcher passionately has sex with his wife Rebecca in her car after years of being apart. The reason they're in the car in the first place is to avoid the surveillance cameras in the Stepford Suburbia she's imprisoned in.
  • In the seventh episode of Breaking Bad, Walt and Skyler are at a parent-teacher meeting discussing someone's (read: Walt's) theft of chemistry supplies from the school lab. Walt gets such a rush hearing people talk about his crime that he and Skyler have sex in the parking lot immediately after.
    Skyler: Where did that come from? And why was it so damn good?
  • In Brothers & Sisters, Nora states she lost her virginity in the back seat of a car. As she starts to go into how the height difference between her and her partner was dealt with, the rest of the family leave in disgust.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • In Season 2's "Phases", Cordelia has this in mind, but Xander is too busy griping about Willow taking up with Oz.
      Cordelia: Look around. We're in my daddy's car, it's just the two of us, there is a beautiful, big full moon outside tonight. It doesn't get more romantic than this. So shut up!
    • In "Bad Eggs", Cordelia says that "her friend" was doing this, but that in the midst of all the excitement, the gear shift was jerked out of "Park" and well...
    • In "Something Blue", Riley hints that he might enjoy this too.
      Buffy: Cars and Buffy are, like... un-mixy things.
      Riley: It's just because you haven't had a good experience yet. You can have the best time in a car. It's not about getting somewhere. You have to take your time. Forget about everything. Just... relax. Let it wash over you. The air... motion... Just, let it roll.
      Buffy: We are talking about driving, right?
  • Cheers:
    • Rebecca Howe decides to tease Sam by making up a sordid story of her youth that supposedly earned her the nickname "Backseat Becky".
    • Came up when Sam and Henri were talking about the strangest places they've ever made love.
      Henri: So, what's the strangest place you've made love, Sam?
      Sam: Oh, I'd say the backseat of a car.
      Henri: Well, that's not very unusual.
      Sam: No, it was still on the assembly line.
    • After Eddie LeBec dies and Carla discovers he has a second wife named Gloria, she tells Gloria that she and Eddie shared an intimate moment in the backseat of a Datsun. Gloria says they did it in the front seat of a Toyota Corolla. Cliff is disgusted, asking "Doesn't anybody buy American anymore?"
  • The Company You Keep: Charlie and Emma have sex in the car multiple times during "A Sparkling Reputation".
  • In Dead Like Me, Daisy can't see a car of a make that was around in the 1930s when she was alive without mentioning a sexual act she performed inside one with a Golden Age of Hollywood actor.
  • Dexter: New Blood: The pilot sees Dexter having sex with Angela in her police cruiser. This appears to be a standard thing for them, after their roleplay where she pulls him over on a pretext.
  • Equal: Bayard Rustin was convicted on a "morals charge" for having sex with two men in a parked car.
  • Forever (2014)
    • In "New York Kids", the woman driving the car is engaged in kissing one of the men when she hits the victim.
    • When Hanson is baffled by BDSM activities in "The Ecstasy of Agony" Henry asks if he's never broken the speed limit, drunk alcohol to excess, or engaged with a partner of dubious sexual history. Hanson, the staid father of two and devoted family man and cop, replies that he's done all three at once! (Presumably back in the days when he was singer in a band that was good enough to play at the Trash Bar, a venue in the same class as CBGB's.)
  • Blair on Gossip Girl loses her virginity in a limo, of all places. Since then, both she and the person she was with seem inordinately fond of the limo.
  • Hightown: Ray and Sarah have sex in his car during Season 3.
  • On Home Improvement it's mentioned that Tim and Jill partook in this when they were younger:
    Tim: I remember the song that we heard when we were in the back of my Corvair steaming the windows.
  • Homeland: Carrie and Brody have sex in the back seat of Brody's car.
  • In the NCIS episode "Trojan Horse", this conversation ensues:
    Abby: My first time was in a cab.
    Ziva: First time for what?
    McGee: Front seat or back?
    Abby: Back. Well, both, kinda.
    Ziva: Oh! My first time was in a weapons carrier.
    Abby and McGee: Of course it was.
  • The Fosters: At the end of episode 5, after trying to find time for themselves all episode, Stef and Lena get it on in the back seat of the family car after the kids go inside (putting some music on presumably to give themselves some cover).
  • A French Village: Raymond and Marie, after breaking off their affair, later have another tryst in his car.
  • The Golden Girls has a variation on this routine. Dorothy and Stan get mistaken twice for teenagers.
    • When Dorothy's son Michael gets thrown out by his wife, who also throws his clothes out of the window. He complains about how embarrassing it was to have to search for his underwear in the back of a convertible, to which Blanche replies "tell me about it."
    • A couple of the multiple ways Dorothy describes losing her virginity to Stan involves sex in his Studebaker. One involves Slipping a Mickey.
      Dorothy: When I came to, there was Stan, carving a notch in his dashboard.
  • The Good Guys: In the past, Dan and Lt. Ruiz had sex in the back of a squad car and then again on the hood.
  • Hit & Miss: John has sex with Riley in his truck once.
  • How I Met Your Mother: Marshall was once arrested for seemingly driving by himself in a carpool lane... only for Lily to rise into view, having been fellating him.
  • Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding", Lestat and Claudia ambush two young couples (although most of Lestat's onslaught occurs off-screen) having sex in their cars at lover's lane.
  • Lost Girl: Two examples in "Raging Fae":
    • The episode opens with Bo making a limo rock.
    • Bo inadvertantly killed her first boyfriend while having Their First Time in his truck.
  • Lucifer (2016): Maze and Amenadiel have sex for the first time in the back seat of a car, causing the windows to steam up considerably. This trope is combined with Something Else Also Rises when Amenadiel's wings pop out and break one of the windows at a... particular moment.
  • Luck (2011) episode 7 features a notably intense front-seat variant featuring Jerry and hot card dealer Naomi.
  • The L Word: More than once a couple has sex in a car, Papi and Alice then Shane with Paige for instance.
  • Midsomer Murders: In "Country Matters", The Vicar confesses to meeting her (married) lover in his van in a field. Although she claims they were just talking, the flashback shows the van start rocking almost as soon as they get in.
  • Monk: In "Mr. Monk and the Leper", Natalie makes out with Dr. Aaron Polanski, but reacts pretty badly after he reveals that he used to have leprosy.
  • No Tomorrow: Kareema and Sofia have sex with each other in the back of a car more than once. Evie and Xavier also do it in the car at one point.
  • Orphan Black: Alison and Chad have sex in both the front and back of her minivan.
  • In the Passion Cove episode "Behind the Scenes", dating game reality show producer Suzanne and her cameraman Ken get freaky in their van.
  • Pivoting: Jodie and Matt try to have sex in her car, but it's too cluttered with her kids' seats.
  • Quantico: In the pilot, Alex and Ryan have sex in the front seat of his car after meeting on the plane to Virginia. It's supposed to just be casual, but then they meet again at the FBI academy. The ABC episode actually shows this briefly, though both remain fully clothed from the, uh, steering wheel up.
  • In the Red Dwarf episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", Lister is doing this with a virtual Film Noir vamp when Kryten enters the sim and interrupts. However, he has to enter the sim as an enemy of said lady, who then tries to hit on him.
  • Resident Alien: In season 3, Harry gleefully tells Asta he and his girlfriend had sex inside her car repeatedly.
  • Riverdale:
    • The first episode flashed back to summer vacation, when Archie had sex with his music teacher in her car.
    • In Season 5, Archie and Betty were in the middle of car sex only to be interrupted by a fire at Riverdale High. They quickly put the fire out using fire extinguishers, and Archie reports the fire to Principal Weatherbee the next day.
  • SAS: Rogue Heroes. A flashback shows Jock Lewes's girlfriend deciding to have sex with him (after asking permission of the spirit of her deceased grandmother) in the back of their car. "It's what all the young people do in America, apparently." As they don't have contraception, she gets Jock to pull out early so she can finish him with her hand.
  • Seinfeld: Frank and Estelle have sex in the back of a van. Of course George opens it up and finds them...
    If this van's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'.
  • "Sex Education": Maeve and Jackson are seen having vigorous sex in a car in the first episode of the series.
  • Sex/Life: Billie and Brad did this in the past. When Cooper attempts to with her in the present, it doesn't go as well, because of having a car seat in the back and her lactating, while Billie is left unsatisfied.
  • The Sex Lives of College Girls: Leighton has one of her nightly hook-ups, this time with a mother in her car, though she is uncomfortable due to the baby seat.
  • In the Sherlock episode "The Hounds of Baskerville", Watson notices a flashing light spelling out a meaningless message in Morse Code on the moor. The next night he tracks down the source of the light... and finds the local make-out point, with some of the people screwing in their cars accidentally hitting the hi-beam lever at odd intervals.
  • In The Shield, Vic and Danny go at it in the back of Vic's Charger. Danny's son, Lee, was a direct result of that encounter.
  • Stranger Things: In season 3 episode 4, when Hopper is interrogating mayor Larry Kline in his office about being acquainted with the thug who attacked him at the Hawkins lab, he tries to scare Kline by bringing up Kline's drug usage or the time Hopper's deputies caught Kline in the backseat of his car with his secretary Candace "going at it like a couple of bunnies".
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty: Laurel has sex in her car with Cleveland.
  • Supernatural:
    • Some special mention has to be made of Dean Winchester, who's had sex in the Impala with a literal angel while Bad Company's "Ready For Love" played on the soundtrack. No halfway measures there.
    • Season 9 also brings us a huntress feigning car trouble, getting picked up by a vampire to ostensibly indulge in some van-rocking action, and then she beheads him.
    • In a Season 11 episode told from the point of view of the Impala, Sam picks up a girl and has sex with her in the car. Dean later finds out, and is encouraging rather than pissed at this use of his "baby".
    • Season 12 heavily implies that Mary and John did in the deed in the Impala...and may have conceived Dean when they did it.
  • Pretty much a Running Gag in That '70s Show.
    • In the episode "Parents Find Out", Donna and Eric were having sex (or attempting to) in a car, in a public place, and were caught by the police. The cop raps on the window...
      Donna: Eric—we're completely naked.
      Eric: Don't worry, I have a plan.
      Eric: [Turns to the cop]
      Eric: GO AWAY.
      Donna: That's your plan?
      Eric: Well, yeah. I mean, we're completely naked. I think he'll just go away.
      Cop: [Raps on the window again, shakes his head]
      Eric: Crap, have you seen my pants?
    • Kelso had sex with Jackie and Laurie in his van (not at the same time).
      "If that van's a-rockin', we're in there doin' it!"
      • Kelso and Jackie seem to be fond of Eric's Vista Cruiser - they've made out twice in the back, and also had sex in there at one point.
      • The Vista Cruiser's backseat also had a visit from Donna's parents Midge and Bob. Bad thing, Midge forgot her panties there... and Donna thought Eric was two-timing her. (And then his friends believe he banged Midge...)
      • Bob & Midge also have sex in the back of their car. In a restaurant parking lot. When they're in their time of bitterness towards each other. And don't consider themselves back together after this.
    • And then there was the time a cop came knocking on a misted-up car window and it turned out to be Red and Kitty.
      • Fez once made out with a girl in the backseat of a car.
      • It's implied Fez is going to have sex with a girl in the back of a car sometime in season seven...
  • True Blood: In the season 7 premiere, Jason and his girlfriend hav sex on the hood of Jason's car.
  • In Two and a Half Men, Alan wants to have sex with Melissa in his car, because he's too cheap to rent a hotel room; however, she refuses.
  • Subverted in Tyrant (2014) when Jamal forces a woman to perform oral sex on him while he's driving, she bites him and causes a car crash.
  • The Unit has Bob and his wife Kim about to do this (the car is in their closed garage) when the baby monitor goes off.
  • Victorious: It's implied that Beck wanted to do this with Jade. All the audience sees Beck and Jade sitting in a car and Beck asking Jade to do something. Jade refuses, claiming she doesn't feel like it. The two are interrupted before the audience finds out what they're talking about.
  • The episode "Secrets", for The Walking Dead (2010), ends with Shane and Andrea getting busy in their car, stopped in the middle of the road.note 
  • The Wire:
    • McNulty and Pearlman have sex partially in the back seat of her car while it's parked in the police headquarters Parking Garage.
    • In "Moral Midgetry", Marlo Stanfield has sex in his SUV with Devonne, a woman who has been sent by Avon Barksdale to lure him into a trap. After they have sex, Devonne asks to meet Marlo again, but he immediately realizes something's not kosher, and has Chris Partlow scope out the planned meeting place.
  • World on Fire: Lois has sex with Harry in a car.

    Music 
  • The Andrews Sisters' rendition of "Last Night on the Back Porch":
    I love him in the springtime
    And I love him in the fall
    But last night in a taxi I [mildly suggestive humming]
    Last night in the rumble seat [slight giggling and more humming]
  • "In the Car" by Barenaked Ladies is a subversion. While the song talks about the singer and his girlfriend exploring the possibility of doing this, he later admits they never actually did.
  • Beyoncé's song "Partition" is a very graphic description of having sex in the back of a limousine.
  • Subverted in Big Star's "Back of a Car", as the singer winds up explaining that he/she just isn't ready yet:
    Why don't you take me home
    It's gone too far inside this car
    I know I'll feel a whole lot more
    When I get alone
  • The Bluetones' hilariously unsubtle "Autophilia (Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car)", which is so ridiculous that it could easily be mistaken for the lust being directed towards the car itself. She does come in sixteen colours, after all.
  • Bon Jovi:
    • "Never Say Goodbye":
    Remember when we used to park
    out on Butler Street out in the dark.
    Remember when we lost the keys,
    and you lost more than that in my backseat.
    • "Wild In The Streets":
    Oh yeah, making love in the backseats.
  • The Bowling for Soup song "Two-Seater" is a post-breakup song that references this trope. As part of his revenge against the girl who just dumped him, the singer broke into his ex's car and (among other vandalisms) removed the back seat where they used to make out.
  • Mentioned in the song "Ain't Goin' Down" by Garth Brooks.
    "One-o'-clock, that truck is rockin'"
  • From "Money" by Cardi B: "He eat it in the car, that's meals on wheels!"
  • Vanessa Carlton's "White Houses" mentions this.
    Sneakin' to his car's cracked leather seat
    The smell of gasoline in the summer heat...
  • Harry Chapin:
    • In "Taxi", the singer mentions that he and Sue "learned about love in the back of a Dodge".
    • In "Northwest 222", his SO would pick him up from the airport in the van and they'd "find a place for parking when the loving would not wait".
  • Lou Christie's "Rhapsody in the Rain" was banned upon release because of this trope: two teens had sex in a car on their first date, and the girl dumped the boy, who can only think of her now when he hears rain on the car.
  • "Making Love in a Subaru" by Damaskas points out the difficulties of attempting this in a compact car.
  • Death Cab for Cutie's "We Looked Like Giants," remembering how the speaker and his old girlfriend were "fumbling to make contact" in his "gray subcompact."
  • Elastica has "Car Song." Not just inside cars, in this case.
    Every shining bonnet
    Makes me think of my back on it.
  • Paul Evans' 1959 hit "Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat" is kind of a G-rated version of this. The narrator/driver keeps trying to capture the attention of the titular girls, to no avail:
    Keep your mind on your drivin'
    Keep your hands on the wheel
    Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
    We're havin' fun sittin' in the back seat
    Kissin' and a-huggin' with Fred
  • Five For Fighting's "'65 Mustang" includes the lyrics:
    She knows my secrets well
    But her backseat won't ever tell
    She's no Jezebel
  • The Hot Chocolate song "Heaven Is In the Back Seat of My Cadillac" has the singer talk about taking his girl to the countryside and making love to her. The title alone cements this.
  • Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith" mentions how he'd thought he was the Duke of Earl when he and a girl "made it" in a Chevrolet.
  • Sammy Johns took the '70s van culture and made an ode to this trope with his "Chevy Van":
    I gave a girl a ride in my wagon, she crawled in and took control.
    She was tired 'cause her mind was draggin', I said get some sleep and dream of rock and roll.
    Just like a picture she was layin' there, moonlight dancin' off her hair.
    She woke up and took me by the hand, we made love in my Chevy van and that's alright with me
  • Judas Priest's "Turbo Lover":
    We hold each other closer, as we shift to overdrive
    And everything goes rushing by, with every nerve alive
    We move so fast it seems as though we've taken to the sky
    Love machines in harmony, we hear the engines cry.
  • Kesha:
    • "Blah Blah Blah" discusses the possibility of this:
    Think you'll be getting this? Nah, nah, nah
    Not in the back of my car ah ah
    If you keep talking that blah, blah, blah
    • "Gold Trans Am" is an entire song dedicated to her trying to get a man into her "golden cockpit" until he's seeing stars and stripes.
  • Tom Lehrer's "Bright College Days" alludes to it.
    To the girls young and sweet
    To the spacious back seat
    Of our roommate's beat up Chevrolet
  • LL Cool J's "Back Seat" describes this trope to the fullest extent, detailing a night with his girl in his Jeep and building up to making love. The making love takes up the entirety of the second and third verses.
  • Loggins & Messina's "Your Mama Don't Dance":
    You pull into a drive-in
    And find a place to park
    You hop into the backseat
    Where you know it's nice and dark
  • Meat Loaf:
    • "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is about a teenage boy trying to get the car rockin'. Unfortunately for him, the girl has conditions.
    • Also used in the third verse of "Objects In The Rearview Mirror (May Appear Closer Than They Are)", when Meat reminisces about how he and his long-lost first love, Julie, had experimented with backseat sex as teenagers.
      She used her body just like a bandage
      She used my body just like a wound
      I'll probably never know where she disappeared
      But I can see her rising up out of the back seat now
      Just like an angel rising up from a tomb
    • "Hot Patootie (What Ever Happened to Saturday Night?)":
      I used to drive around with a chick who'd go
      listen to the music on the radio.
      A saxophone was blowing on a rock 'n' roll show.
      You climbed in the backseat,
      really had a good time.
  • Marina & the Diamonds reference it in "The Outsider", in the context of the rest of the song, could be viewed as a little creepy...
    Don't get on my bad side
    I can work a gun
    Hop into the backseat baby
    I'll show you some fun
  • Paul McCartney's "The Back Seat of My Car" starts out with the singer and his girl just sitting and hiding in, well, the back seat of his car because her father told her making love there was wrong. Eventually, they give in and do it.
  • The Nickelback song "Animals" is about this, ending with the singer and his girlfriend being interrupted by the girlfriend's father. Oh, Crap!
  • The early industrial track "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal (a band fronted by Daniel Miller, better known as the founder of its label Mute Records - this was its debut release), and famously covered by Grace Jones, graphically describes lovemaking in a burning car wreck. According to Miller, the song was inspired by J.G. Ballard's Crash.
  • KT Oslin's "Cornell Crawford":
    Cornell Crawford
    He's the one who turns me on
    He's gonna pick me up in his pick-up truck
    He's gonna take me down the road to have a little fun
    He's got a pack of Camels
    He's got that quart of whiskey
    And he's got it wrapped up nice in a brown paper bag
    Oh, we're gonna stop
    We're gonna park
    We're gonna get down to it in stark
  • OutKast's ​"Hey Ya":
    I don't want to meet your daddy
    I just want you in my Caddy
    I don't want to meet your momma
    I just want to make you come-a
  • During the Pink Floyd song "Run Like Hell" from The Wall, Pink warns that even lovers in cars are not safe from the wrath of the Hammers—in the film of the album, the skinheads corner an interracial couple in a car, dragging the man out and beating the crap out of him and then raping the woman.
    You better run all day and run all night
    Keep your dirty feelings deep inside
    And if you take your girlfriend out tonight
    You better park your car well out of sight
    Cause if they catch you in the backseat trying to pick her locks
    They're gonna send you back to Mother in a cardboard box!
    You better run!
  • Prefab Sprout averted the Springsteen version of the trope, very explicitly, in "Cars and Girls":
    Brucie dreams life's a highway too many roads bypass my way
    Or they never begin. Innocence coming to grief
    At the hands of life - Stinkin' car thief, that's my concept of sin
    Does heaven wait all heavenly over the next horizon ?
    But look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt more much more than cars and girls.
    Just look at us now, start counting, what adds up the way it did when we were young?
    Look at us now, quit driving, some things hurt much more than cars and girls...
  • Queen's "I'm In Love With My Car" is more making love to the car. (As the title implies.)
    When I'm holding your wheel,
    all I hear is your gear.
    With my hand on your grease gun,
    It's like a disease son.
  • "Sleeping In My Car" by Roxette:
    Sleeping in my car. I will undress you.
    Sleeping in my car. I will caress you.
    Staying in the backseat of my car making love, oh yeah.
  • Parodied in a video for Run–D.M.C.'s "Mary Mary", where the woman in charge of Women Against Rap (W.A.R.) sees a van that is rocking and assumes that sex is going on, but instead she opens it up and sees women inside working out with exercise machines.
  • Bob Seger's "Night Moves". ("Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy...")
  • The Tom Smith song "Whose Idea Was It" centers around how awkward this can be, especially if it's a small car.
  • Bruce Springsteen sang a fair bit about cars and girls in his Born to Run period, and the title track of that album raises the trope to the level of a fetish:
    Wendy let me in, I want to be your friend
    I want to guard your dreams and visions
    Just wrap your legs around these velvet rims
    And strap your hands across my engines...
  • Gwen Stefani's "Bubble Pop Electric":
    Tonight, I'm gonna give you all my love in the backseat.
    Bubble pop electric. Bubble pop electric.
    Gonna speed it down and slow it up in the backseat.
  • "Sex in a Tesla" by Tripod is about Yon's obsessive fantasy of having sex in an electric car, and the possible drawbacks.
  • "Steamy Windows" by Tina Turner:
    I was thinking about parking the other night.
    We was out on a back road.
    Me and my baby was just getting right.
    All systems on overload.
    Radio blasting in the front seat.
    Turning out the music fine.
    And we were snuggled up in the backseat,
    making up for lost time.
  • The back cover of Tom Waits' album Blue Valentines shows him making out with his then-girlfriend Rickie Lee Jones against a car.
  • Warrant's "Cherry Pie" mentions this:
    Swingin' to the bass
    In the back of my car!
    Ain't got money!
    Ain't got no gas!
    But we'll get where
    We're goin' if we
    Swing real fast!
  • ZZ Top's "Got Me Under Pressure":
    "But she won't let me use my passion
    Unless it's in a limousine"

    Theatre 
  • In J.B., Nickles described this as one of the things Satan sees through the open eyes of his mask in the course of Walking the Earth:
    He sees the parked car by the plane tree.
    He sees behind the fusty door,
    Beneath the rug, those almost children
    Struggling on the awkward seat—
    Every impossible delighted dream
    She's ever had of loveliness, of wonder,
    Spilled with her garters to the filthy floor.
    Absurd despair! Ridiculous agony!

    Video Games 
  • In Cyberpunk 2077, V and Panam can have sex in a tank.
  • In Dead Rising 3, Gary and Rhonda do it in the back of a van.
  • In Double Homework, the protagonist and Morgan can do this twice: once in a car for Their First Time, and once on a motorcycle at a Make-Out Point that Morgan shows the protagonist.
  • The Grand Theft Auto series of games allows you to hire prostitutes in your car. The fourth game actually lets you swivel the camera around and watch.
    • In Grand Theft Auto IV, the prostitutes give you three price options. The cheapest is a hand-job, mid-price is a blow-job, and the highest priced service is sex. All three have accompanying animations for both characters, and fairly realistic at that - even though both characters remain fully clothed. In case you didn't spot the irony, it's basically every feature in the Hot Coffee content, minus the interaction.
  • Occurs in Kaori's good ending in Crescendo (JP) after you-as-Ryo stop her from going through an omiai or arranged date.
  • H-Game (Obviously) Moero Downhill Night series have some of these. Granted, the games are about auto-racing anyway.
  • In Saints Row 2's "FUZZ" activity note , one of the situations you'll come across is busting two people in the middle of this. Pull them out, and they'll be naked with the relevant parts covered by Pixellation.
    • The first 3 games also have the Escort activity where the player must drive a prostitute and her client around the city while accomplishing certain requests and avoiding news vans attempting to film them.
  • The Sims 2: Nightlife expansion pack adds this option.

    Web Animation 
  • ATTACK on MIKA: Junpei went to the garage and noticed his car shaking violently as he found out his wife Saki was inside with a guy, clearly cheating on him. He retaliates by calling the cops on the lovebirds.
  • Manga-Waido: The episode My wife was having an affair when I got home so I called the cops features a man returning home to his wife cheating on him inside his car. When he finds her bag, he secretly copies her phone's message data into his own to get evidence and closes the shutters of his garage to teach the lovebirds a lesson.
  • Refreshing Stories:
    • "Wife makes out with secret lover inside our family car": Saori cheated on Hiroshi with a guy named Hayato inside the family car she forced Hiroshi to buy. However, he snuck into the car in a mascot costume to catch them red-handed.
    • "My wife was having an affair with my boss in my brand new car, so I let them drive off": Nako cheated on Hiroshi with Mr. Hitotuma inside the DY-9 car. When Hiroshi caught the lovebirds, they drove off into nowhere while ignoring he would use it for a promotion campaign. In retaliation, Hiroshi started a new campaign in which whoever took a photo of the lovebirds in the car and posted it to Twitter would win the car. As a result, the CEO of Sugita Motors fired the cheating couple for their trouble.

    Webcomics 
  • A&H Club: While car shopping for Adrian, Hilde is immediately sold on an SUV with a lot of space in the back. Later Adrian accuses her of being a "sugar momma who bought her an SUV with fuck space," but after they've had a discussion on what they need in a relationship they "make use" of the space in back.
  • In Avialae, Gannet and Bailey's first sexual encounter occurs in the backseat of Bailey's car. Gannet later refers to the spot where they made out as "Handjob Valley", much to Bailey's embarrassment.
  • Darkest Night: Mags and Ava have sex in Mags' car, which turns out to be the last time.
  • In Kevin & Kell, newly-married Rhonda and Quinn make out in the backseat of Lindesfarne's car when she's trying to find out when they'll be getting an annulment since they only got married to break a betrothal between Quinn and Lindesfarne. She figured out she needed to find a new college roommate instead.
  • In Misfile, newlyweds Kate and Harry could not wait for the honeymoon. Later referenced by Emily when she's checking out her vintage car and asks "How the hell did people have sex in these things?"
  • In Questionable Content, after Faye admitted she lost her virginity in the back seat of a Buick, she thinks Marten disapproves. In fact, he's envious: his first time was in a much smaller VW.
  • After Zig Zag helps Sabrina buy a new car in Sabrina Online, she shows it off to her boyfriend.
  • Housepets!: Trapped in a car for hours on end, staunch womanizer Todd insists on making out with Lois, the only woman in the car. When she turns him down, he goes for the next best option, the (male) stranger in the seat next to him.

    Web Original 

    Western Animation 
  • One certain episode of 2 Stupid Dogs had said dogs try to watch a drive-thru movie. After sneaking in with their own car, the smaller dog got bored and asked: "Why do people come here?". Zoom out to the entire car-filled lot (and even the film, with a car on a cliff) bouncing and squeaking suggestively.
  • This is subverted in Animaniacs "Drive-Insane" when the Warner Siblings are jumping up and down excitedly in Dr. Scratchansniff's car. A mother walks by with her child, the child sees the car rocking violently, and the mother quickly leads her child away.
  • Beavis And Butthead Do America follows this trope to the letter in one scene, right down to an ATF agent interrupting.
    • On the TV show, the two wander around a drive-in theater, ignoring the movie, until they find a rockin' van and take a picture of the occupants. Then they spend the rest of the episode running from the hideous she-beast they disturbed.
  • Bojack Horseman:
    • In "Commence Fracking", Princess Carolyn and Ralph are trying to have a baby, but their rush to get home while the former is ovulating earns them an arrest for speeding. Desperate to conceive, and knowing Ralph has some very good lawyers, they have sex in the back of the cop car.
    • "Time's Arrow" reveals that BoJack was conceived during a one-night stand in Butterscotch's car.
  • Subverted in Codename: Kids Next Door, when the KND investigate why so many of the hated Teenagers are planning to get together at "the Point" that night. Despite repeated verbal and visual hints that they're going up there to have sex in their cars, it turns out to be an unrelated scheme to become instant Adults. At least, that's what Numbah One thinks it is. The truth is far more disturbing. They're all going to a roller-skating rink. Without any ulterior plan and just wanting to have, well, fun. They get pissed with the KND ruining their night out, and they're right.
  • Subverted in the Downtown episode "Limo". In one scene, it looks like Alex and Jen are having sex in the limo Jen rented, but it then turns out that they're actually bouncing the limo around and pretending to make orgasmic exclamations to mess with the chauffeur.
  • Family Guy, as Death has a flashback to his adolescence, citing the burden of anyone he touches immediately dying.
    Death: Oh, Sandy! Sandy!
    Pause
    Death: Sandy? Not again! I'm gonna be a virgin forever!
    (beat)
    Death: Or am I?
    (car starts rocking)
  • Futurama:
    • In "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", Fry and Amy's car breaks down on Mercury, leaving them stranded with hours to kill before the tow truck arrives. When the guy finally shows up, he finds the car windows fogged up and... Fry and Amy playing cards. Then, while they're being towed...
      Amy: So, you wanna do it?
      Fry: Yeah!
    • On a robot planet, a popular movie features a teenage robot couple making out in a car getting attacked by a hideous human (a robot in a bad costume).
  • King of the Hill: Nancy Gribble and John Red Corn have sex in the back of a demo model SUV that is parked in the terminal at the Dallas airport.
    • The two also have sex in Dale's van, the Bugabago which is the company vehicle of Dale's extermination business, Dale's Dead Bug.
  • In Moral Orel, when Orel is invited to Inspiration Point by his sweetheart Christina, he wonders why there are so many cars parked up there. He hears people screaming "Oh, God, oh, God!" and "Thank you, Jesus!" and cheerfully concludes that people go there to pray.
  • The Simpsons hits this one a couple of different times.
    • Homer in a car muttering indistinct things such as "Oh baby" that indicated great enjoyment. Turns out he was back there with a mountain of junk food.
    • When Manjula wanted to get pregnant, Homer tried to help by having her and Apu roleplay a scenario as a cheerleader and football player making out in a convertible.
    • Kodos: "The most common spawning locations of your species... the back seat of a Camaro".
    • Groundskeeper Willie: likes to secretly videotape couples in cars.
  • Steven Universe: "Story for Steven" implies that Sour Cream was conceived from a one-night stand in the back of Marty's van.

 
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