Luxury Vehicle Ownership comes with Decorum

Broke in a brand new Acura ILX. 

No dramatics; I turned it over to a 4-digit odometer YA buddy.

The Acura ILX is their brand-new model that’s entry-level luxury.

To celebrate the launch is the Acura Finishing School:
an evening of styling, and etiquette training.

You’re graduating into luxury automobile ownership, conducting yourself with more decorum comes along with that. 

Welcome to my blog, guys!  

The evening was geared towards men, (no more jeans and sneakers fellas, get used to blazers and suit jackets).  How I was also invited was because I don’t know, I was just glad.

A 4 course meal, while etiquette coach Linda Allan reminded us of proper dining etiquette; she was, and it was, awesome.

At the evening’s conclusion, we were handed keys to a brand new ILX.

There are 6 different versions of the car, including their first-ever Hybrid, congratulations Acura!

Bolstered and stitched seats, crisp and ergonomic trimming, a quick and reliable engine, a 15GB hard drive for music, all features here: Acura ILX

Starting at $27,790.

Subtle classiness.

I wrote about the experience in this week’s, ‘Keri on Driving’ column.  Please read for tips I learned from Linda, they’re good reminders.

(article online here)

Favourite Line:

“… the best part of the evening was the sentiment: A little more decorum all around is never a bad thing.”

Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

 

 

Recent Outfits #OOTD

Everything I need to film and document for KeriBlog is in that purse. Only thing missing is my laptop.

If you see #OOTD online: Outfit Of The Day

Got this at an Acura event I atteneded last week. I’m going to Sharpie out the letters.

At a party.

 

 

Shift You Later Civic, Sigh

I love shifting gears, you know this.

Most press cars are automatic. So this week was real refreshing.

Shift, rev, peel, skip from 4th to 2nd, lots of superfluous revving just because I can.

I use the hazard button a LOT when I drive.

It find it more effective than brake lights alone.

See the pink arrow above? Note the positioning, the clear path from wheel to engaging the alert system? That’s how you know this is a drivers car – Honda Civic SI.

Shifting gears is easy, don’t be intimidated.

It’s like learning a little dance routine: depress clutch, shift with arm, release clutch. See? Easy.

Even in 5″ heels.

Had to give it back Monday to Honda Canada.

This week’s car, an Acura MDX.

Acura is the fancy, higher-end line of Honda.

It’s making me drive slower, like the Navigator did. I guess that’s good.

 

 

An Acura for TIFF, Allllll Right

I picked it up yesterday, hi from Honda HQ in Markham. Don’t we match well?  YA buddy.

We drove out, that’s Alen, Reggie and Mark and me. It was Reggie’s birthday, neat eh.

There we met our new friend, security guard Joe, hi pal! Welcome to my blog.

It’s an Acura TSX Performance Sedan. It’s good and unassuming, with great pick up.

Picked up bff Casie and we flew around downtown to the Four Seasons and back.

It’s gonna be a great week, thanks again Acura.