Until recently, purchasing a JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) vehicle in the U.S. was a real hassle. Our strict import laws only allow vehicles to be imported into the country after they have reached 25 years of age. The floodgates opened when the R32 Nissan Skyline reached its 25th birthday and dealerships popped up all over […]
Two new analyses from Bloomberg this week make clear just how bad President Donald Trump’s policies are for the domestic electric car market and U.S. workers. In the first report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) explains that Trump’s plan to roll back Obama-era fuel efficiency and emissions standards for vehicles would eliminate any federal requirement […]
Beyond the theater marquees, Hollywood landmarks and throwback fashion, Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” is loaded with “an absurd amount of cars” all meant to capture the period feel of Los Angeles in 1969, according to the film’s picture car coordinator Steven Butcher. Butcher said he located over 2,000 classic, vintage cars for […]
The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. The Chevrolet Corvette Z06. The Dodge Challenger and Charger Hellcats. The Dodge Challenger Demon. The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. All of these cars are top-of-the-line, high performance American muscle cars. And all of them happen to be supercharged. The reason why has less to do with power […]
Street-parked RVs, vans and just regular-ass cars being used as residences are common to see in Los Angeles. But as homelessness balloons along with the cost of housing, it seems like a new wave of people are turning to “van-life” out of necessity. And contrary to what it looks like on Instagram–it’s not all yoga […]
So it’s here at last: the long awaited mid-engine Chevy Corvette. It wasn’t easy. The time-honored phrase “a day late and a dollar short” has almost always applied to the Chevrolet Corvette. Delays throughout its history have been measured in years, not days, and the funding shortfalls in tens of millions of dollars, but the […]
If there’s one thing that we really embrace in America, its Japanese car culture. There are entire groups of enthusiasts that dedicate themselves to really taking on everything JDM. That’s obviously a small subset of the overall sales, though. As we glide down the roads of America, we see Japanese cars absolutely everywhere. They are […]
Most people who spend money on car-sharing services do so because they have a destination in mind. They need transportation, and driving a car is an incredibly popular and efficient method of travel between two locations. (It’s true!) But occasionally, a car is not a mode of travel, but an indoor space in a world […]
ST. GEORGE — As the state gas tax continues to gradually erode, the Utah Department of Transportation is launching a program that will charge people for each mile they drive. A Tesla vehicle charging station, location and date unspecified | Photo by from Pixabay, St. George News UDOT is hoping to get 400-500 drivers of […]
All new models of electric cars sold in the European Union must now make artificial noise under certain conditions, reports BBC News. Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems (aka, AVAS) will need to be installed in new models of hybrid and electric cars introduced from today onward, and all existing models by July 2021. With an AVAS […]
