This isn’t your average man cave. It’s a car condo at AutoMotorPlex, 40 acres (16 hectares) of garages overlooking a wetland outside Minneapolis. Here boomers hang out with their cars, watch sports on TV and commune with fellow auto enthusiasts. Eager to cash in on an accelerating trend, developers are throwing up car condos around the U.S., including a project with a 1.5 mile (2.4-kilometer) test track planned on the grounds of a defunct General Motors plant near Detroit.Murphy paid $300,000 for his garage and invested about that again to kit it out. On the first floor a BMW M5 and Mercedes SL550 AMG share space with a slot-car track and two Ducati motorcycles. Upstairs is an 1,800-square-foot living space, with a full master suite where Murphy, his partner and their Siberian husky host parties and hang out.“I’ve always been a car guy and I love this idea of a set of man caves -- or people caves -- where people got together of like minds and love cars,” said Murphy, a 54-year-old health-care executive, whose home garage was running out of space for his 10-vehicle collection. “We wanted to go with more of a homey feel than a garage feel.”Car condo developers say the vast majority of buyers are men, who sometimes struggle to persuade spouses of the wisdom of plunking down $300,000 for a garage -- even a fancy one.Reluctant Spouses“I’ve had many men whisper in my ear that they could use some help convincing their wife to get this garage,” said Mike Ard, who developed the GarageTown complex outside Denver. “Usually the second visit doesn’t occur if the spouse is adamant about not purchasing it.”(bloomberg.com)Bakudaily.Az