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SOCALDAJI - BRINGING THE DAJIBAN TREND TO CARCADIA
Every month we get up before the sun rises to set up for Carcadia. What keeps us going is a love of cars and a love of car people. Every month there’s at least one “unicorn” ride where I shop and give thanks that we have such an awesome community of creative gearheads at Carcadia.
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Q&A with Allen Berg
LAC: How long have you been here at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca? AB: We first came here in 2015 and we rented the track for a few days and it sold out. I did a survey of my existing customer base and asked what they thought about doing classes here. We’d have to charge a bit more because it’s more expensive to operate here.. 60% of them said yes they would like to, and when I opened it up it sold out.
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A PRACTICALLY COOL PRIUS PLUG-IN HYBRID
Back in the early 2000s, the Toyota Prius was more than a car. It was a prop. Hollywood loved it. As a Curb Your Enthusiasm fan, the word “Prius” instantly brought up images of Larry David behind the wheel on his way to some hilariously awkward moment. The world’s most anxious environmentalist paired with the world’s most fuel-efficient car felt like fate.
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MERCEDES-AMG: RACE-BRED PERFORMANCE, THE BOOK
AMG has always sat in that fun zone between refinement and pure rebellion, and Matt DeLorenzo really leans into that in Mercedes-AMG: Race-Bred Performance. He walks through the big eras from the wild Red Pig days to today’s GT models and shows how two racing-obsessed engineers managed to change the course of Mercedes-Benz.
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Carcadia at Route 66
“Cars and Coffee” is the term ascribed to the early morning informal gatherings that have become popular in more recent years. In the car culture-rich Southern California community of San Gabriel Valley, the go-to gathering is in Arcadia and is appropriately called “Carcadia”. The brainchild of Carcadia is LACar’s very own Glenn Oyoung. Glenn explains how Carcadia was born:
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Hypercars At The Petersen
"Hypercars: The Allure of the Extreme" is the latest jaw-dropping exhibit to grace the Petersen Automotive Museum. You’ve probably heard the term "supercar" - so what next-level attributes take a car into "hypercar" levels? It comes down to performance, rarity, and price. Case in point: The Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta is one of the 30 hypercars that will be showcased in the Petersen’s Bruce Meyer Family Gallery.
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