Wednesday, 7/10/2024

Good morning!

We're officially in the second half of 2024.  How'd that happen?

Lots of regularly scheduled car meets this weekend.  And it's that time of year were car shows combine with annual community festivals.  Which is always fun as they bring more food and entertainment options.

All the shows and news are linked below.  Don't forget to forward this newsletter to all your friends.  They can sign up to receive it

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Drive on,

-T

Trifecta Corvette Car Club's new meet-up is here! And ALL types of rides are welcome. Details HERE.

Camarillo's community festival includes 2-days of cool car show fun!  More HERE.

WORDS THAT MATTER TO CAR LOVERS

HEADLINES

• How much more can CA tax us for gas?

• Trade groups want SCOTUS to tell CARB to pound sand

• SCOTUS Chevron ruling and unelected bureaucrat 'laws'

• Carjacker targets wrong SCOTUS security officer - duh

• Don't tell CA lawmakers - extra yearly fees for EVs here

• SoCal parking spot throw-down makes the local news

• CA gas station gets ransacked by 100 looters!?!

• Speed limiters are coming these cars across the pond

• Honda's dusting off the Prelude for this market

• Porsche struggling in Chinese marketplace

• Mercedes holding the line on ICE - targeting EVs

• Think Elon's pay is huge - how about the $7B legal bill

• SoCal dealer joins car giveaway benefiting local fam

EVs, ALTs & AUTONOMOUS

• Fisker's fire sale - wanna buy a museum piece?

• Lucid's recalling a huge percentage of cars they've sold

• Lucid stock breaks 3-bucks - sadly that's good news

• Tesla's China sales taking it on the chin - hugely

• China's BYD guns for Europe - what about the US?

• Public EV chargers work almost 80% of the time...

• Harvard B-School takes on WH EV charging debacle

• Forever chemicals found in EV batteries - shocker

• F1 racing takes on synthetic fuels - sustainable?

TOP IT OFF

• RECALL: Mustangs being corralled for steering issue

• SoCal accounts for most of CA's deadliest highways

• Detroit Auto Show tries to rally support/comeback

• LAX United (Boeing) flight loses wheel after takeoff!?!

• 1st time flier confuses bathroom and exit door - really.

• Kid on jet ski saves the day when boat runs away

• Record heat reported in Vegas = disinformation

• Crazy contraption for sale - interesting to look at.

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Volkswagen calls it the ID.Buzz. I call this one the Imperial Bus. And you can customize your own too. More HERE!

iDSC Community Member extraordinaire had a busy Independence Day Weekend - reporting from two shows!  Part 1 HERE.  And Part 2 HERE.

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