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2004-2007 & only 1,270 ever made.

A 6-speed manual V10 outputting 612 hp and 435 lb·ft torque

- 0 – 100 km/h in 3.6 seconds
- top speed 330 km/h
- $500,000

Spotted downtown Toronto.

It’s car season in Canada now, yesss.

Favourite line:

The race name I gave myself:

Keri Amateur Hour of the Put-put Division

That’s for laughs only. Still undecided on what my real name will be… “Keri Cutting-it-Fine Potipcoe” is the current front-runner.

Here’s the blog post about the day on the track I mention, and here’s the video.

Made the top cover spot again, which still makes me involuntarily squeal when I open the newspaper box in the morning and discover it.

Read it online here.

Favourite lines:

It’s never a “whip” (a ’90s hip hop music term that has long passed its expiration date).

And:

Take the term I use when describing my ‘99 Jetta, “hi, I drive a lunch box”.

See my lunch box here.

I drive a Honda
MB4 D16Y8 SOHC GT28RS Enkei RPF1 15×7.5 with a +35 offset

That is this car.

(Thanks to my brother for help with the tuner language. That’s his line, and car)

And this week was my best ever cover mention.

Because look: they included my name, making this the most it’s ever been printed, nice.

A little, now that I have some months under my belt.
This is one of our newsletters, the arrow is pointing to my headline.

That’s Nissan’s all-new Friend-ME, designed specifically for young men in China; here’s my Autonet article.

It’s not easy being a young guy in China, a Bālínghòu -A Chinese male born in the 80s.

They must follow a lot of rules imposed by their society, and most of them have no siblings, so time with friends is considered precious.

It’s a huge demographic, and that’s why Nissan is going after all 240 milion of them.  This demographic thinks about cars in an all-new way, and will influence the way they’re built in the future.

Cool eh, especially the level of built-in internet connectivity.

I just don’t think the name translates from Mandarin so great:

Friend-ME = Mandarin Bālínghòu 八零后(simplified) or 八零後(traditional) translates directly into 80 After…. or After the 80′s.

Bā = 8
líng = 0
hòu = after/later

Still, I’m not totally comfortable talking as I do here on KeriBlog though, otherwise I’d have called it…

… the “Nissan ForeverAlone” ahaha comeON

The Forever Alone meme

When you attend information sessions, auto-manufactures hand out USB keys loaded with specs and details about their new vehicles.  This is the best one yet.

I hung it in my lanyard collection.

The colour of this year is brown.

There’s probably a classier way to say it, “Tiger’s eye” or something, but basically: brown.

I get why the designers chose it; they must get so bored, the same blue, black and white year after year.

The problem with buying the en vogue colour though, is it really dates your car.

And also, if your friends don’t give you a hard time about driving, “a flying terd”, then they’re not your real friends.

It’s a McLaren- a British car worth $500,000-ish.

This isn’t like, I own an exotic Porsche, this is a different level of rich.

When I posted this online, I was asked if I was testing it. First, like where your heads are at. But really, I’ve no business reviewing one of these.

Not only have I not driven enough cars of this calibre, but this is 616 hp with 443 lb-ft of torque.

I’d be nervous behind the wheel… one small mistake is at least 5 figure$, and this is like, the most powerful engine you can own, this’ll get away from you real fast.

And to really maximize a car like this, the driver would have to be quite skilled, they’re few and far between.

This is what I’m thinking about, while some super-car owner is telling me all about how he finds the car to drive.

Instead of taking a taxi, you use an app on your phone to summon, then pay, a black car. Classy.

Uber – Everyone’s Private Driver

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Favourite line:

And that’s it; 2 clicks and zero human interaction, and a car is on its way to you.

Bottom right are the text messages Uber sent me.

Got another of my collages printed, ha.

Above was one of my drivers – Lincoln Navigator.

The seats are pre-heated, and there’s always a bottle of water waiting. And no small talk.