Wednesday, 1/29/2025

Good morning!

The Grand Daddy of Them All rolls this weekend.  That's the

Grand National Roadster Show

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What's remarkable is that the show is rolling its 75th year.  So for someone who was 25 years old when it started in 1950... well that person is now 100.

Cars are cool.  Rolling art.  History on wheels.  To be shared across generations.  Taking us places in our hearts, our minds, and merely from points 'A' to 'B'.

All the shows and news I've curated for you are linked below.

Keep driving,

-T

The Grand Daddy of Them All - The Grand National Roadster Show!  Details HERE.

The Cruisers of Poway are motoring into their monthly gathering!  More HERE.

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NEWS

HEADLINES

• SEMA officially thanks Trump for promises kept

• SF cameras to issue speeding tix -  really their biggest issue?

• Vandals in SoCal attack a driverless taxi causing big damage

• Cargo theft is soaring - and LA is a hotspot for it

• US Senate approves new Transportation Secretary Duffy

• State of TX investigating many carmakers for privacy issues

• GM's CEO is optimistic about the Trump administration

• Infiniti slashing two more vehicles from line-up... leaving, what?

• Europe's car business has it's check engine light on

• BMW takes a page from Jaguar's recent playbook

• United States, European Union, Chinese cars and tariffs

• Don't drink and drive... or be sick and drive...

EVs, ALTs & AUTONOMOUS

• EV charging plans changing a bit with new Trump admin

• Toyota continues developing hydrogen engines

• Honda targeting a sub $30K EV model for North America 

• China EV investors are eyeing idle auto plants in Germany

• Need a personal submarine? Gotta be electric?  No prob, but $$.

TOP IT OFF

• RECALL: Ford needs 270K vehicles back - battery issue.

• RECALL: Kia's hollering back 80K vehicles for airbags

• Fewer car brands are pouring cash into Super Bowl ads

• Fuel mix-up at gas station puts diesel in gas engines!?

• Blinding LED headlights are in the crosshairs across the pond

• Homeowner refuses to move, highway now surrounds his home.

• US startup company breaks the sound barrier - 'New Concorde'

• Elon agrees to rescue astronauts left abandoned on the space station

• Newly discovered asteroid is... nope, that's just Elon's Roadster orbiting

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The Gipper's Presidential Library is running a C&C this weekend!  More HERE.

Pontiacs, Buicks, Oldmobiles, GMCs & Cadillacs are on display!  Info HERE.

LA's South Bay plays host to the weekly C&C called Caffeine Cruisers. Scot's lens pointed there last weekend. Here's his report.