Starting on May 1, 2018, all US-spec automobiles sold in this great country of ours will be required to come with backup cameras as standard equipment. Yay! The Feds finally (the program had been in process for 10yrs!) saw fit to require all auto makers to give us eyes in […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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In a move some saw coming, Ford Motor Co announced today that it will be giving the axe to pretty much its entire car lineup in North America to make room for a brave new SUV/crossover world. Save for one car: the Ford Mustang. Well, two if you count the […]
News coming out of the Beijing Motor Show is that Volvo’s Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid is going to land on US shores with a $155k starting price. Let that sink in for a moment…$155k…for a Volvo. If you’ve forgotten, Polestar is going to be Volvo’s high-end, go-fast, skunkworks brand akin […]
Well, I can’t say I didn’t see this coming: Cadillac’s President, Johan de Nysschen is being replaced effective immediately. Johan came to Cadillac in 2014 from Infiniti where he was head honcho for 2 years and a big part of their revival effort. In the cut-throat automotive industry, if […]
Pop quiz: What’s cooler than suicide doors on a car? If you answered “Nothing, duh!”, then ding ding ding you just won yourself a lifetime supply of SoCalCarLife. Suicide doors are just the best. Equal parts badass and opulent luxury, they represent a simpler time in automotive product planning. “Does […]
Continuing their steadfast march back into relevance, Lincoln is unveiling their Aviator Concept at the New York Auto Show this week. And Sweet Jesus is it a good-looking beast! I’ve been a fan of Lincoln’s new design language that we first saw on the Continental and then the Navigator, but […]
The Dodge Magnum….Ahhh the Dodge Magnum. The Dodge Magnum never really made the waves I thought it would. When it was released in 2004 (as a 2005 model) 33-year-old me thought “For sure a badass wagon built by Americans for Americans will give those damn Germans a run for their […]
The V12 engine. One of the car world’s more mystical creations. Dead smooth power delivery. Exotic car lineage. It is the unicorn of powerplants, even to this day. Auto enthusiast extraordinaire, the late/great David E Davis, once declared “Everybody needs to drive a V12 at least once in their life.” […]
“Just toss an LS in it bro…” Those words have been casually uttered thousands of times by people that, for the most part, have never lived thru the waking nitemare that is an engine swap. It sounds so simple, right? Like a greasier version of Legos. Just toss in a […]
Mazda’s rotary engine has always been the oddball cousin in the internal combustion engine (ICE) family tree. And while there’s no shortage of videos showing the inner workings of a traditional 4-stroke ICE, seeing how a rotary goes about its business has proved illusive. Until now… The guys over at […]