Archive for March 2018

Reviews! “READY PLAYER ONE” “Ready Player One,” from renowned filmmaker Steven Spielberg, is based on Ernest Cline’s hugely popular science fiction novel. For most of the population, except the privileged and wealthy, it portrays the not-too-distant future (circa 2045) as bleak and miserable. Most live in tenements built from stacked-up mobile homes called, appropriately, the…

An epic NASCAR superspeedway race weekend — two thrilling races, told in words and pictures NASCAR’s Monster Energy Cup Series Cup Series and Xfinity Series made their one and only 2018 visit to Southern California on March 17th and 18th at the two-mile, D-shaped oval at Auto Club Speedway (www.autoclubspeedway.com) in Fontana. Auto Club Speedway is…

More specifically, a fully electric car or a plug-in hybrid? Read on… If you are seriously considering the imminent purchase of a fully electric car as your next primary vehicle and you often drive long distances, consider this: for anything other than limited urban use, affordable, fully electric cars are still not as practical as…

Multi-faceted entertainment 2018 SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW Presented annually by the New Car Dealers Association of San Diego County, the San Diego International Auto Show is always the first auto show of the new year, and one of the largest in the U.S. With over 400 new-model vehicles from 30+ manufacturers occupying the spacious…