Get Into the Petersen Museum for Free
The Petersen Automotive Museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary by offering free admission on Thursday, June 19th. Visitors will have access to all three floors of the Wilshire building, which...
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Motor Mouths: Michael Cimarusti Talks Lobster Rolls in the 2014 Aston Martin
In Los Angeles, we are just as obsessed with what’s in our driveway as with what’s on our plate. Since I don’t allow eating in my car, I figure driving around the city’s most influential chefs is the...
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Elon Musk Releases Tesla Patents
It takes immeasurable pluck to create a car company from scratch, and more hubris to venture off the tried-and-true path and into the weeds of the battery-powered world. Given Elon Musk’s generous...
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Liberace’s Legendary Car Collection May Soon Come Out of the Closet
The flamboyant style of Liberace is getting a second life recently, thanks to Beyond the Candelabra, last year’s Emmy-winning HBO movie, and, more recently, in an exhibit on the pianist at Vegas’s hip...
View ArticleYou Don’t Actually Pay More At the Pump Than Everyone Else
As turmoil in Iraq has increased, so have American oil prices. According to the most recent Lundberg Survey, the national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline has jumped two cents, running at...
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Ugly Cars: The Edsel’s “Toilet Seat Grille”
The Edsel debuted on September 4, 1957, an event that had been so hyped by Ford’s marketing efforts that it came to be known as “E Day.” After a long and aggressive publicity campaign that had...
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5 Classic Motivational Posters Re-imagined for the L.A. Driver
All posters courtesy aboveaverage.me. All images courtesy shutterstock.
View ArticleBilly Crystal’s Audio-Memoir: A Red Light, Green Light Review
Billy Crystal has trouble staying awake during movies. And plays. And musicals. According to the comedian’s latest book, Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My...
View ArticleHistory of Route 66 Revealed in The Autry Center’s New Exhibit
More a notion than a road, Route 66 has remained in the public’s consciousness decades after its novelty and usefulness wore out. The Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park...
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Flashback Friday: The Ultimate ‘80s Car
No matter what anyone says, really and truly, there was only one car that defined Los Angeles in the ‘80s. One car that inspired lust and passion and would, for a few years at least, get you a prime...
View ArticleLet Your Foot Flag Fly: The Official Ruling on Driving Barefoot
TRUE OR FALSE? It is illegal to drive barefoot in the state of California. FALSE. Turns out any laws prohibiting naked feet in a moving vehicle are stuff of myth. Shoeless driving is not only...
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Pairs Great with Red: The Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible
For a guy possessing virtually zero knowledge about wine, I have been presented a daunting and tantalizing travel invitation: scoot up to Silver Oak Cellars in Napa Valley, see how their product goes...
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Meter Meme: #LADriver Parking Woes
Well, this feels familiar … Photograph courtesy instagram/amberasaly Clearly inspired by a Lord of the Rings meme that’s been circulating the web over the past few years, this Instagram find rang all...
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Poppin’ Bottles? Pop the Trunk of This Tricked-Out Rolls
Photograph courtesy Stef van der Bijl Photograph courtesy Stef van der Bijl Photograph courtesy Stef van der Bijl Photograph courtesy Stef van der Bijl Photograph courtesy Stef van der Bijl...
View ArticleTraffic Jams: Channel Batman On Your Drive Home
Don’t be modest. Even though you leave your cape and spandex uniform at home, we know that you do battle twice or more a day on the highway and emerge victorious (or at least, without having to call...
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Weekend Drive: Must-See Stops Between L.A. and Palm Springs
Palm Springs is to L.A. what the Hamptons is to New York: an escape from urbanity, something between a staycation and a destination that requires slogging through an airport. Of course, our version is...
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Flashback Friday: Who Says You Can’t Please a Woman?
In honor of our ’80s-themed July issue, we are publishing some truly classic archival content, like this Volvo ad from April, 1980:
View ArticleAutomatic Car Expert: The L.A. Driver Dictionary, P to Z
Plug-In Hybrid (noun) While standard hybrids use electric and gas-powered engines working together to power a vehicle, plug-in hybrids rely more heavily on the electric motor, and can be plugged into...
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A Roundup of Our Favorite Yelp Reviews of L.A. Freeways
Sure, Yelp is a great platform for checking out local businesses, finding the perfect vegan frozen yogurt shop, or dissing Trader Joe’s parking lots, but what about for reviewing L.A.’s freeways? Upon...
View ArticleNo App-ologies: Uber Flourishes Despite Taxi Driver Protests
“Unregulated, Unsafe, Unacceptable, Uber.” That was the message on t-shirts worn by L.A. cabbies earlier this summer when they staged a City Hall protest against the increasingly popular ridesharing...
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