Sandy Avila, a 42-year-old construction company office administration manager living in Pasadena, Calif., on her 1966 Chevrolet Impala SS lowrider, as told to A.J. Baime. I grew up around lowriders, ...

Glass-filled polypropylene is already a very commonly used plastic for automotive parts, but could it be improved? Well, yes. A new substance, Gratek, is claimed to make the plastic 20% stronger yet ...

Tesla's car business relies heavily on the aging models 3 and Y Industry experts warn of risks from lack of new models Chinese EV makers are cranking out new models much faster But years later, ...

Rolling with the Ladies, an all-woman car group, is uniting women from various El Paso car clubs. The group is also created an event, "Tribute to Lowriding," to honor the pioneers for El Paso custom ...

Milwaukee resident Eric Ramos uses his passion for lowrider cars to foster community and change negative perceptions of car culture. Ramos' car club, Ranflitas, hosts cruises and permitted car shows ...

Tesla has unveiled the long-promised cheaper versions of its two main cars, dubbed the Model 3 Standard and Model Y Standard, after the expiration of the $7,500 tax credit for American buyers of most ...

Tesla rolled out “affordable” versions of its best-selling Model Y SUV and its Model 3 sedan, but the starting prices of $39,990 and $36,990 struck some as too high to attract a new class of buyers to ...

A Smithsonian traveling exhibition maps the family ties and ingenuity behind lowriders—from post-World War II Chicano pride on boulevards to global car shows Aurora Martínez - Staff Contributor On ...

Thousands turned out Saturday for the first official Lowrider Parade in San Francisco's Mission District. The event also featured a "hopping contest" and a car show. Local businesses got in on the ...

San Francisco's annual Lowrider Parade, a decades-long tradition in the city's Mission District, was shown for the first time on live television on Saturday. The parade on Mission Street was part of ...

Vehicles began switching to plastic oil pans because they provide several advantages over metal. This trend goes beyond oil pans, as you may not realize several cars have bodies made of plastic. Auto ...

Studies show that leaving plastic water bottles in hot environments, like a car, causes them to release billions of microplastic particles and harmful chemicals into the water. Heat and UV exposure ...