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Mechanic Goes Upscale at Luscious Garage
Nov 13 2008 by Sara Lacey
If I told you there was a mechanic who runs a garage that’s clean, recycles as much as possible, displays art on its walls and has a library with comfy chairs in which to wait for your car, I’m pretty sure you’d call me a lunatic. But Luscious Garage is just such a place; you know I wouldn’t tease you like that.
Luscious Garage, in San Francisco, specializes in hybrids, specifically, in converting them into plug-in hybrids (this is LG’s claim to fame, really). It also services gasoline-powered cars, too, though. Owner Carolyn Coquillette’s path to the Luscious Garage wasn’t exactly straightforward. She was a teacher and later worked for a nonprofit organization, but Coquillette become irritated that she couldn’t repair her own car, so she picked up a bunch of tools and started learning, according to a New York Times article.
Learning how to repair cars was one thing, but for Coquillette there was another goal.
“Luscious Garage combines the best of both worlds: factory-level training, parts and equipment with the personal attention of a neighborhood shop,” she writes on the LG website. “All hybrids, all repairs, total preparation and honesty.”
On the website, there’s a price list and a time estimate for all regular services for every hybrid out there. How great is that? And that garage I mentioned?
“Our historic warehouse boasts an original brick frontage, a cozy mezzanine with gorgeous arched windows, and a clean and healthy workshop filled with natural light,” Coquillette writes on the website. The garage is near a movie theater, a shopping area and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, so I could take my car in for service and go explore an art museum while I wait! They also encourage customers to look around the garage’s art gallery.
Luscious Garage sounds like a dream come true. Not only does it make taking your car in for service more like a causal trip downtown, which is always an attractive lure to this girl, its non-intimidating environment and cleaner, greener operations embody the kind of place I want to patronize. I wonder if franchises are available.
her story is quite interesting as she learned it when she couldn’t repair her own car (muffler auto parts). I would like to be in this place!