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Home from Los Angeles with Ford

Left Tuesday, I was at the auto show with Ford again (two years ago they’d invited my blog [video], this year was with the newspaper)

We stayed in Santa Monica.

The * was me.

The famous Santa Monica pier was about 300 metres away.

I never made it though; I took these photos from Dan.

It was a fast trip – travel Tuesday, spend Wednesday inside here…

… then dinner and fly out the next morning.

Watched “Now you See Me” on the plane (so good), then wrote my column (talking to X-Copper about speeding tickets, to balance out this week’s talking with the toughest enforcer on the force).

Landed around 8; dinner catch up and laughs; then home, unpack, and power my apartment back up; jacknife on the phone with a BFF while she regaled me with her adventures; and now this is me.

Thursday night, best night of the week.

I’ll cheers you after I hit publish, then upload my column, then tomorrow I’ll blog the auto show.

xo TTYT

 

 

The All-new 2014 Nissan Rogue

Read my full review here on Autonet.ca. Liked it a lot.

It’s the finishings, though, where the Rogue outshines the competition. The instrument plastics are smooth, and the fake-o carbon fibre looks sharp, but it’s the soft-touch material found on all surfaces that really makes a difference. It may not translate in print, but it does in real life.

It’s a 2.5 L engine producing 170 hp and 175 lb-ft of torque, and the vehicle will tow 1,000 pounds (like a jet ski).

To call it sporty is a stretch, but it’s not supposed to be; the Rogue is a utility vehicle, and it does that well.

Buy the SV trim, the middle one, and forget the third row, it’s too small to be functional. As I said in my review, “It’s tiny; I barely fit, and I’m the size of a troll doll”.

But why I declared it the leader of the compact-SUV segment, is because of Nissan’s invention – the The Divide-N-Hide cargo area. Love it.

Contain wet items in the floor,
so they don’t infect the whole load.
Then Tetris the pieces around in the back,
you can really OCD out. 

Bet this will be copied by the competitors.

I tested the Rogue in Nashville, here’s the post about that trip.

That’s their football stadium, LP Field.

And that’s Mark Richardson, photobombing my entire test video.

HAHA that’s good footage. Motoring TV has it right now, will link it up when it’s online.

2014 Nissan Rogue

Starting at – $23,498
Top trim – $33,098

 

 

The Rhythm of a Week

Remember my video a couple years ago:

The Rhythm of a Year

So… December is a right-off… everyone’s focused on tidying up loose ends from the year, preparing for the new one, and parties.

I’ve been drilling down on that theory since then, and think I’ve found the pattern of a week.

The Rhythm of a Week:

Monday – Thursday – a sprint to the finish, nose planted to grindstone
Thursday night – best night of the week always
Friday – tidying up what happened M-Th, and errands. Friday’s can always be accomplished in jogging pants
Friday night – no talking, maybe a quiet and reflective beer
Saturday – Sunday – have fun, then #SundayCleaning to start off the new cycle clean, prepared and ready to attack

Therefore, bring those 2 theories together,
and there’s really only
2 business weeks left in 2013

( I do seem to start to get reflective around now, eh)

(see also: About Time )

 

 

Starting up a Pagani Huayra

One of the world’s best cars.

Built in Italy, less than 100 will be produced.

$1.8 million

It’s a twin-turbo 6.0L Mercedes AMG V-12 engine,
outputting 730 hp and 740 lb.ft
top speed is 370 km/h
0-100 km/h in 3.3 seconds

Busy interior eh.

I got the key mwah.

Huayra is pronounced: wai-rah. Say it with a Hawaiian accent. It’s Quechua, the official language of the Inca Empire, and translates to “God of the winds”.

This is the all carbon-fiber model.

Of course I turned this moment into a blog header.

It was Pfaff who brought the car to town, its first time on North American soil.  Thanks for having me guys.