With more than 100 test drive opportunities from 13 top automakers, the San Diego International Auto Show is a must-attend event for all car-lovers.

And that's especially true if you're in the market for a new car now or planning to be anytime this year.  With over 600 new cars on display and the opportunity to look, touch, feel and ask questions all without the pressure to buy - you simply can't go wrong.

Perhaps best of all there's no better opportunity to bond with your kids, parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles or even colleagues and clients than a family-friendly auto show.

And for us, SoCal residents the LA Auto Show and OC Auto Shows are in the rear-view mirror until next year.  So you don't want to miss this!  Click play below for the details and make a date to start an auto show tradition in San Diego-style!

Alpha Romeo booth at the San Diego Auto Show

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Recorded in San Diego, CA

2018 San Diego Auto Show

Kevin Leap: There's probably well over a hundred different models and makes that you could actually test drive.

You know when you get in and you turn it on and you feel how it drives and you experience the technology.

It's the only place where you can go and see pretty much every manufacturer, all of the new things that they have, in one place.

Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States, southern California. Tom Smith here, and I am excited to be in San Diego County. This is the furthest south that iDriveSoCal podcast has been recorded. San Diego County in, where are we exactly again?

Kevin Leap: Sorento Valley.

Tom Smith: Sorento Valley. And joining me is Kevin Leap. Mr. Kevin Leap of the San Diego International Auto Show and the San Diego New Car Dealers Association. Thank you so much for joining me.

"...December 27th thru 30th... San Diego Convention Center, downtown San Diego right on the water on Harbor Drive."

Kevin Leap: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

Tom Smith: iDriveSoCal, we're rounding our first year here, and this is the first podcast that we're doing with you that we hope to be doing a year after year in association with the San Diego International Auto Show that's coming up here in, let's see, we're recording this in, what is it, November 20th and the show in December...

Kevin Leap: December 27th through the 30th. So we're about 35 days away.

Tom Smith: All right. And the show takes place in...

Kevin Leap: The San Diego Convention Center, downtown San Diego right on the water on Harbor Drive.

Tom Smith: We were talking off mic a little bit. The San Diego International Auto Show has been going on for quite some time.

History of the San Diego Auto Show

Kevin Leap: 1928. The first year was in Balboa Park in the Esplanade. I think they had seven or eight cars. It was just a huge social socialite event, very, very high-end San Diegans dressed to the nines coming to see the horseless carriage if you will.

Tom Smith: The horseless carriage.

Kevin Leap: The horseless carriage. Back when you could trade in a horse for a car.

Tom Smith: You know, I find that interesting actually these days as we read stories about autonomous driving and the inevitable accidents that happen with autonomous driving.

Kevin Leap: Which are mostly caused by humans.

Tom Smith: Right. Exactly. But it makes me think, hey, on the one hand, we think, hey, this is something that we're experiencing as a first time. But it's really not, right?

"It was just a huge social socialite event, very, very high-end San Diegans dressed to the nines coming to...