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There’s lots to explore at Car Show Safari News, including our editorial section of reviews, commentary, personal experience stories, and more! At the CarShowSafari.com Editorial News Page, we cover everything from top tips on how to host a successful car show to thought-provoking editorial news commentary on modern ridesharing apps. Here, you’ll find our recurring blogs and columns, including So You Want to Have a Car Show, dedicated to making every automotive event the very best it can be and the Car Mudgeon series, which gets frank and funny about topics that affect every auto enthusiast.
The Editorial Page helps to set Safari News apart from other listing sites and automotive news outlets. Not only do we share the news as it takes place, but we work to give it context and meaning, and to provide the resources and information enthusiasts and the hobby deserve! Our team of expert writers are first and foremost car lovers, and we look forward to sharing their informed, unique, and sometimes unexpected thoughts and opinion with our readers!
In Praise of the True Performance SUV
How do we truly create a performance SUV that can be used–especially one that can be used by the masses? Perhaps the answer lies in which direction companies cross over. Instead of bringing SUV to performance, bring a little performance to the SUV.
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So You Want to Have a Car Show
While a cold front may have descended upon most of the United States, it’s not too early to start planning out the most important elements of your upcoming car show, cruise night, cars and coffee or concours. Today, we’re here to help you find the perfect location.
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Social Media and Your Car Show
So, with Christmas barreling down upon us in jolly good cheer, why would we think about car shows now? Car show season in the near past and distant future. What can November, December, January mean for our cozy classics tucked in the barn?
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In Car Years
Imagine a world in which Henry Ford had gone from madman tinkering in his garage to a household name with more than 25 assembly lines producing household vehicles for the American people with such ease that a company which had originally produced just a few cars a day did not even notice the one millionth mile marker.
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Ride-Sharing Apps Lyft Congestion in an Uber Way
Nashville is not the first small city to turn down such transit initiatives, meaning it will not be the only small city to regret such a decision in the next decade, when booming development and the related ubiquity of traffic and ride-sharing apps create an impossible to untangle web of downtown congestion without reprieve.
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An Ode to the Chatterbox Diner
And yet, despite how far away it actually was, the Chatterbox was an incontrovertibly important part of my childhood.
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What’s an Automotive Journalist?
Because writing about cars isn’t just writing about cars. Not always. When it comes to being a reporter with a passion for the automobile, you have to be an expert on a whole lot more than just the automobile.
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
I find it so interesting that this film is nowhere to be found. If Tucker were operating in today’s day and age, like Elon Musk or Christian Von Koenigsegg, the story would have been different.
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The Bland Blazer of 2020
That’s the extent of the reporting that we have seen thus far surrounding this announcement, overlooking, in our opinion, the fact that the new Blazer will be derivative in every way. It will, to torture a phrase, blaze no new trails.
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The Race of Gentlemen Phenomenon
The Race of Gentlemen triumphed for another year as vintage hot rod owners, racers and spectators gathered on the beach to witness a classic car event unlike anything else. The weather was forgiving, the crowd enthusiastic and the general atmosphere one that will not only survive in this new age of the classic car hobby but, ultimately come to dominate it in the next few years.
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Motorama
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This accompanying article to the 2025 Guide to Monterey contains images of each of the winners of the ultimate prize at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in descending order since the event’s inception in 1950.
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Golfers of any ability or duration instantly recognize Pebble Beach Golf Links’ par-5 18th hole due to its history as one of the top finishing holes in golf. However, since 1950, a large number of non-golfers know it as the location of the climactic end of Monterey Car Week, where each August the award of Best Of Show for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance takes place.
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This year’s Guide to Monterey contains a list of Best Of Show winners and the analyses generated from that information. As accompaniment to that history, this article contains illustrations and narrative concerning several marques who do not yet have examples that have won the show’s top award.
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Stories of individuals who have found a classic vehicle in an obscure location will probably always juice the pulses of classic car enthusiasts. The thought of discovering a long-forgotten treasure tucked away in a dusty old barn is a dream that almost anyone with an interest in classic cars has entertained at some point.
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During Fort Ord’s 20+ years as a barren maneuvers area and 50+ years as an active U.S. Army installation, its personnel, facilities, and equipment were a visible presence throughout the Monterey Peninsula. From its activation in 1940 until it was shut down in 1994, Fort Ord was primarily a basic training base and later home of the service’s Seventh Infantry Division (Light).
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Today we honor those who greatly influenced the automotive industry that passed in 2021.
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Hertz, the 102-year-old and iconic car rental company, filed for bankruptcy protection on May 22, the repercussions of which have affected, and continue to affect, the auto industry and the markets for new and used cars.
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Construction of the temporary indoor speedway had just been completed. The next morning, the same crew that built it began dismantling it.
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CarShowSafari.com’s Motorsports Editor Bob Marlow has been nominated for this year’s Junie Dunlavey Memorial Spirit of the Sport Award by the Eastern Motorsports Press Association (EMPA).
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In December 2018, the FBI raided the California offices of DC Solar and the home of company owners Jeff and Paulette Carpoff, and aside from the usual seizure of computers, files, and corporate books, the agents found $1.7 million in cash! The FBI suspected the Carpoffs of running DC Solar in the fashion of a Ponzi scheme.
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