Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
The 2015 Chevy Silverado 2500 & the GMC Sierra Denali 3500
Read in on Autonet.ca
Both badges are powered by a Duramax 6.6L V8 Turbo diesel, outputting 397-horsepower and wait of it… 765 lb-ft of torque COME on.
Assume the position: trucker stance.
The hood and I are the same height.
So arty.
Dichotomy.
This year, our cars will be constantly connected to the internet. It’s going to be HUGE.
By 2021, the auto industry will have have the highest revenue that’s connectivity-related.
It arrived last year via Audi, and Chevy is a front-runner, with 10 of their models to be offered with 4G and LTE connections by this 2014 summer.
Read it online at Autonet.ca
It will be interesting to see how the data will be priced, because using the rule of thumb that at YouTube video is 1MB per minute, we’d all be driving down the road just hemorrhaging money.
Remember my column about War Driving? I wonder how this will affect things like that. I also wonder about the security aspect of an always-connected car. Remember, you are responsible for hotspot users.
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Today’s diesels are far different than when they first arrived in the 1970s, yet somehow the stigma has unfairly stuck.
If you’re looking for great fuel economy on a tough-as-nails engine, consider a diesel. Better re-sale value too.
Read it online at Autonet.
Don’t take my word for it – ask a diesel owner, because they will sing its praises, and word-of-mouth is how you really know.
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“This is the 2013 Chevy Spark and its 84 hp. I’ll wait for you to stop laughing before continuing why that’s just right.”
Read my full review on Autonet.ca.
This is a great starter car (it’s an appropriate amount of hp for a new driver), that has a surprisingly spacious interior, with sporty handling.
“I took it onto the highway, in the big-boy fast lane and all, and it performed fine. If you’d like some extra oomph, choose a manual transmission, and save $1,400 at the same time.”
The green is too much for me (like it best in black), the base model comes well-equipped, and the infotainment system “MyLink” is the only system I’ve ever gone on record saying I like.
Chevy Spark website
Starting at – $12,170
This one – $17,945
I was surfing around, sourcing stories for Autonet.ca, and I stumbled on news about BlackBerry’s QNX OS.
BlackBerry’s operating system is QNX, and it’s poised to become the default software which runs the infotainment in all automobiles.
(Read it online here)
That is HUGE. Because that’s a real problem – each auto manufactuer has their own proprietary software, and there’s no easy way to update it, so often brand new cars have 5-year old systems inside.
Now.
Prem Watsa is an investor, he’s like the Canadian Warren Buffet.
He owns Fairfax Financial Holdings, and is the largest investor in RIM (BlackBerry) – $700 million, or 10%. And it was always so curious to me why he held onto his stock, even when BB was at its lowest *, why he loved it so. Yes BB is known for security, and still has lots of subscribers, but…
Now THIS makes total sense – if QNX becomes the default auto OS, BlackBerry will return to it’s former glory, and then some. I predict last week’s software release will be the game changer, though – QNX CAR.
Numberous automakers already base their infotainment systems on it, like: the guts of the system is QNX, then Acura adds its look & fee on top.
Audi, Chrysler… there’s more I’m not remembering…
Acura / Audi / Chrysler / Land Rover / Hyundai / GM / Porsche / Saab
Chevy’s new MyLink system uses it, which won all the awards this year for “best auto infotainment system”.
I interviewed the lady behind it all for the paper in February, click here, and I blogged it was the first system I’d ever liked (to my 500 times telling you never to buy one).
My BB story even made the cover of the paper, and my first non-‘Keri on Driving’ article to, nice.
I was so pleased with myself for figuring this all out, I texted and emailed everyone as much, and documented my smirking here, last photo.
* so I did too. My stock market strategy is: copy the successful guy
