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About Matte Paint Jobs

Matte paint is en vogue right now. Looks great, but it’s high maintenance because it’s a porous paint.

But it does broadcast the driver has a disposable income, to both purchase and maintain it.

Read it online here.

 Favourite line:

The car can only be washed by hand ,… and never again can the car be run through an automatic wash.

Below is BMW’s ‘Frozen’ paint.

So pretty, no touching.

Very few manufacturers offer a matte paint option. Mercedes also does a beautiful job.

And so does Hyundai!

The only manufacturer to offer a matte paint on a non-luxury car.

Available on the Veloster for $800-ish; that’s thousands less than the ones you see above.

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Happy Long Weekend Offine

Hope you too took some downtime. I took off to see my BFF.

Played a Nintendo Wii for the first time.

Saucering.

My BFF can beat up your BFF.

If you need photos you need Suzy Lamont.

I’m having trouble putting into words why, because I’m so proud of her it keeps coming out in giant paragraphs. It’s just, I was there at the beginning, watched her self-teach herself to the top, people ship her internationally to photograph things, I wish I could list names, and more awesomeness that is not my news to tell, she’s just subtly dominating. This isn’t “BFF coloured glasses on” talk either, she’s it. Ok I got gushy again. Suzy gets the shot, because she gets it out of you.

“Photography is about capturing the moment. In that moment nothing else matters, and yet everything does.” – Suzy Lamont

Suzy Lamont – Facebook & Website

Click here to watch a video of her photoshoot for Trash Couture. The designer saw her stuff, and asked if she’d photograph their dresses. So she orchestrated this amazing shoot at an airbase.

Here’s another video of another photo shoot of the above photo.

Heather Haynes recently painted Suzy this beautifulness.

Suzy xo

This week’s car is a 2013 Civic Coupe.

I’m a fan of the Civic, you know this though. I’ve got a review about it in a few weeks.  This week my ‘Buick Encore Test Drive‘ article runs.

Replenished my jogging pants supply.

And that’s that.

Not my best storytelling post, I’m still a bit wiped guys, from last week. All is good. But need an assistant real soon like now.

TTYT – massive Auto Show posts coming.

xo Keri

 

 

Blog Break’s Over, Here’s What You Missed

Me typing a lot of things.

How sweet my place looked going into the Chinese New Years.

Looks like a hotel, eh!  All white and crisp.

My place would look good on Pinterest.

Found this little guy when cleaning; when I was very young, he came everywhere with me.

Stayed in a fancy downtown hotel.

It’s weird staying in a hotel in your own city.

Went around looking good in my hat.

I’ll probably make one of these my new profile pic, which is due to be changed.

Replenished my jogging pants supply.

Busy busy week!  For auto journalists, this week is like the Olympics.

The Canadian Auto Show kicks off tomorrow, and we’re live-blogging it for the paper’s first time (ScribbleLive!), and I have lined up a first-look at something awesome for you to see.

I filmed my first ever TV segment this morning, talking about the auto show on Sun TV, should be available to embed tomorrow.

That’s all I got right now, I have to start preparing, update my gear and practice more with ScribbleLive. I also set-up my Galaxy to use tomorrow, the one TELUS gave me.  I wanted to use my new BlackBerry, but Scribble’s not yet available for BB.  I’ve got a post started to tell you about the phone, short answer: the OS is solid, the upside-down-L gesture is efficient, and business people you’re going to love it.

It IS time to upgrade my phone though, this old iPhone 4 is no longer cutting it.

Look how grainy, that’s not good.

Night, TTYT

 

 

I’m Not a Fan of Hybrids, Part 2

I didn’t mean for this to become a 3 part series.

But I am asked about eco cars maybe more than anything else, and I wanted one link I can send in answer.

Why don’t I hear more about the mind-set eco driving requires?

Read it online here.

Favourite line:

And that’s my biggest problem, because to properly eco-drive and make use of the technology requires and almost 100% presence-of-mind, something I’m not sure a lot of us have.

Read Part 1 here.

And also, I’ve designed the Keri Eco Car

At least this hybrid looks good – the Lexus LF-LC Concept rear-wheel drive Hybrid.

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