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Jun 9, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
Excitement is in the air as we close in on the June 12 opening day of the 2024 San Diego County Fair. The Fair is the largest annual event in the county, with an attendance of nearly one million. Its origin dates all the way back to 1880, when “a group of San Diegans organized an agricultural fair to bring county farmers together to share ideas, see who had the best citrus fruit, who baked the best pie, and who had the fastest horse.” These days it is still an agricultural fair, but so much more.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
Starting way back in 1951 with the release of the V-8 Hemi engine, Chrysler (now Stellantis) has been building automotive high-performance cars for the motoring public.
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May 31, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
This week’s AutoMatters & More column was not originally intended to be a part two of a Disneyland double-header (with videos!), but sometimes unexpected opportunities cause plans to change. AutoMatters & More is usually distributed to publications beginning on Tuesdays.
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May 17, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
In the years following the 1977 release of Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, Star Wars has become a global sensation, and in 2012 it became part of Disney, when Disney acquired Lucasfilm. That acquisition opened the door to a massive expansion of the Star Wars entertainment universe. Plans were made, construction commenced and, in 2019, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opened at the Disneyland Resort in California and at Walt Disney World in Florida.
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May 10, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
Returning to the big screen after his starring role in the Barbie movie, Ryan Gosling stars in The Fall Guy — an action-packed tribute to stunt performers in the movies. Gosling plays the role of Colt Seavers — a stuntman who “gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment.
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May 10, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
Why do you think we pay so much these days for auto insurance? If you think it is because the auto insurance companies just keep charging us more and more to increase their profits, think again. Their costs to repair damage have been skyrocketing. I submit to you for consideration two of my recent personal experiences. In Southern California, it is pretty much a fact of life that we drive many miles on our freeways.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
On an overcast Saturday morning in March, the Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego and the San Diego Tesla Club held a “Meet-n-Greet” to share with the public an up-close look at Tesla’s radically styled new Cybertruck ‘in the wild,’ and to provide opportunities to speak with several Cybertruck owners. Two of those owners were the national vice president and president of the Electric Vehicle Association.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
WonderCon, celebrated annually at the Anaheim Convention Center, is run by and similar to San Diego Comic-Con, but without much of the participation by the movie, TV and streaming production studios, with their incredible off-site activations (interactive scenes, complete with sets, props and costumed talent). WonderCon is significantly smaller, which makes it more intimate and accessible.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
The early days of spring began at the Del Mar Fairgrounds with one of “America’s Favorite Car Shows,” as proclaimed by the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association. This, the 23rd Meguiar’s Del Mar Nationals, featured 2,500 rods, customs, classics, muscle cars, imports and trucks thru 1999. “AutoMatters & More” visited on Saturday, the second day of the three-day show. The weather was picture-perfect.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
delmartimes.net | Jan Wagner |Jan Wagner AutoMatters
Located on nearly 200 acres next to Mission Bay, today’s SeaWorld San Diego is a theme park, accredited zoo and aquarium that truly offers much for everyone to see and do — young and old alike.
