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Still so polarizing, which is kind of amazing unto itself.

This week’s column.  Read it online here:

Favourite line:

The most important part to remember is – don’t do the math on the weight being towed, instead it’s the GVWR – gross vehicle weight rating.

I tried something new this week,
and made a video
to go along with this week’s column

How to Backup a Trailer in 5 Steps

Thanks to my driving buddy that day, Jeremy Sinek, for helping me film! We also won the fuel economy challenge, helped by that I didn’t drive.

Here we are with a Tyranasaurs Rex.

Where the video came from.

I was there with Ford, to test trucks, their newly-refreshed F-series.

We landed in Calgary, then a 100 km-ish drive to Drumheller, dinosaur capital of the world. And a small, quiet town; news of our trip made the papers.

Dinner was in the even smaller city of Wayne.

Population 27, above is the only business.

Which is an awesome place – Last Chance Saloon.

The gentleman far right would conduct the behind-the-scenes dinosaur museum tour the following day.

The place doesn’t even get cell service, everyone’s phones went to E and it was like olden times; loved it.

At the Saloon, you BBQ your own delicious Alberta AAAA amazingness.

Or in my case: put on grill, go find help (thanks Jeff!)

By far my favourite truck of the trip was obviously.

(non-car nerds: this is a beast of a pick-up truck,
Ford’s crown pickup jewel that attacks all terrain)

I have off-roading footage to edit, best part of the day.  And I made a video about towing, look for it Thursday.

Thanks for inviting KeriBlog.com along Ford, I had a great time.

The Solomon Curve shows the relationship between average speed and collision rates.

(collage credit: Charlotte Appel)

Favourite line:

The fastest way to get in a crash, is to go slow.

Made the cover again.

The radio’s been locked for years since a battery failure, and the screen broke so I can’t see to enter the codes.

I have the codes because I blogged them, see:

Security is relative.

For a while I played, “get the code before it kicks me out after 2 failed attempts”, but it got old. So I just listened to silence, then in February found that egg in the States. It’s  ’As Seen on TV’, love that stuff.

The car is a ’99 Jetta.

The song is composer Philip Glass, titled La Belle & la Bête, played by Angele Dubeau & La Pieta.

(Last line reads: because unless the car is stolen out of your driveway, the thief now knows where you live and where you’re not. 

Favourite line:

Securing your car isn’t so much about making it theft-proof (that’s impossible); it’s more about making it invisible and undesirable.

Where this week’s column came from.

24 Hours readers – you’ve met me through cars, but as a hobby around here, I blog about security, mostly online.

I’m mostly blogging this because the category Cars was due for a ‘face behind the blog’ post.