This usually gets used to describe a useful and expensive possession that helps you travel faster on your journey. Eventually you’ll have to Park it some where (settle down) especially if you run out of Gas.
In most contexts it describes a close significant other or someone else.
Cars can be status symbols, they can be fancy. Fast cars, junk cars. The analogy is intentionally flexible and callous.
There is also a Known meta-metaphor here with Drive #[ing] being the root.
“I’m in love with my car, gotta feel for my automobile.” -Queen
“6:30 Alarm, Brush my Teeth and Start the Car And I know what I know, so I go where I go Flick the Keys, stare at the screen, Click away all my Dreams” -Sweet Pill
November 1, 2025
Realized that a car could be someone who was bribed with a vehicle.
November 17, 2025
Realized that the “car" could be the person whose name the car is under for tax purposes