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Can you Spot the 5 OCD Things?

Jun 15 2015

There are 5 things in the above photo that make me nuts. Scroll for answer.

It’s the view from my couch, and, the only place I sit in my main room.

It’s all I can see.

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1 – the door is superfluous. It’s access to the water main, which is accessible from the other side

2 – the fire detector should be to the right, out of sight

3 – the silver rail should be white, to blend in

4 – terrible spot for a light switch, it jars the eye and ruins its flow

And the trickiest of the 5…

5 – the trim changes either side of the door. Now that’s all you can see, too.

Never Seen the Power Out in a McDonald’s

Jun 15 2015

It was strange, like Facebook going down… they just, don’t.

The speed that the screens came back on was impressive. The fries continue.

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The 2015 Jeep Experience in Moab, Utah

Jun 10 2015

In straight-from-factory 2015 Cherokee’s, Jeep sent us off-roading on Hell’s Revenge, one of North America’s most difficult off-roading trails.

As far as press trips go, this one was very laid back. Which was why it felt fine to commandeer the hotel golf cart, and drive it into the presentation.

Off into Utah, which is very red and alien-ish.

The trail is 10.5 km and okay woah, I totally get Jeep now, it just climbs up walls?! Throttle, little more now and whoooosh up I go.

I was literally hanging weightless from my seatbelt, my new favourite thing.

Got to drive with Lorraine Sommerfeld and there were lots of laughs, “it’s happening.”

A veteran auto journalist, like, my 2.7 column years to her 13, and 2 weekly columns at that. Plus she’s 2014’s ‘Canadian Journalist of the Year’. Read her stuff here, she’s snort-out-loud-clever.

(Above and below photos: Costa Mouzouris)

Jeep goes up, Jeep goes down.

The Cherokee’s Trailhawk trim is how it can do this (the base model won’t.)

Trailhawk means it’s been modified at the factory for this terrain – skid pads, tuned suspension, front tow hooks, and a more angled fascia for a 30º approach.

It’s also equipped with Selec-Terrain Mode (choose sand, snow, more) but the key is Active Drive Lock, available only on this trim. It locks the rear differential in 4WD so you can zoom straight up.