[sameerrao]

50mm is a normal lens and not wide angle by any means. I think wide angle starts with 10mm and goes to approximately 36mm.

The true wide angle lense like the 10-22mm or 12-24mm lens are awesome for landscape shots but are pretty useless for car photography unless you want to have fun distorting the cars.

Take a look at Martijn's and TT's photo thread where they talk about the various wide angle lenses - I think the 17-40mm and 17-35mm lenses were mentioned as decent lenses.

You may want to go thru your shots taken with the 18-55mm and see what percentage of them were taken at or near the 18mm end or the 55mm end. If you were taking a lot of stuff at 55mm then you will have be a lot closer to the action if you want to use the 17-35mm lens.

Fortunately Nikon has a pretty decent lens with 18-70 all the way to 18-200mm - so we are covered on the short end as well as the telephoto end.