The CIAS AutoShow in Toronto 2012

It’s our country’s largest show – the Canadian International AutoShow. I went Thursday, day before it opened, media-only.

Ford invited me, thanks guys! I had a great time.

They unveiled  their all-new mid-size sedan.. introducing the 2013 Ford Fusion.  It’s is their favourite car.

It's a beautiful sedan.

That material, I investigated it when I attended the LA Autoshow. I have the finding on video.

Also learned the new CEO of Ford Canada is a lady!  Congratulations on your new job, Dianne Craig!

Then I went exploring the whole show.

Took a TON of photos, have them ready to go for…

My New Blog… Keri on Cars… coming soon!

That’s going to be a fun blog.

Inspired by suspension bridges.

I see you, George!

Real life HotWheels car.

The gentleman in the pink tie is the United States Ambassador to Canada, David Jacobson.

Ran into Rick, hi buddy welcome to my blog!

We used to work together during my security guard days.

Then I walked over to the North building and found this.

I’d accidentally arrived exactly on time for the grand opening of the ‘Auto Exotica’ area, ha.

Most expensive car at the show –

the Aston Martin One-77, $1.7 million.

It was around here I got into a debate with my new pals, Mark and Giancarlo.

(Photo credit to Roger Cullman, who will beat you at Scrabble guaranteed)

My point was: if you are going to buy a Rolls Royce, you must also hire a driver. One should never be seen driving their own Rolls.

By now it’s the end of the day, I’m done, and all the cars are starting to look the same.

I slipped out, back and back up.

I’ll keep you posted on the new site… a blog just about driving, it was only a matter of time.

If we’re just meeting: I had an internet show about Canada for 3 years, 80 episodes, and starring… my car.

Here I sum it up in 18 seconds of song:

 

 

Hi I'm Back!

Good to be back online, I took a little break over the weekend.

I’ve said it before: it’s important to sometimes disconnect. I was even hanging out with a ludite, ha. And until I was out of the city did it hit me hooow much time I and we spend heads down on our phones. While fun, I’m not sure humans are supposed to live like this.

I squished a LOT into four days, I’ll tell you all about it this week.

Highlights include:

Kicking around Kingston, Ontario.

Going flying.

Spending time on the range.

My car dying on the 401, and Ford stepping in to save me, no dramatics.

Kay I gotta run here, TTYL! xo Keri

Watch a Ford Focus Park Itself

Tuesday Ford invited me to test drive their 2012 Ford Focus for a day via a car rally.

They partnered us each up, that’s my awesome cohort Ryan Durrell in brown.

(photo by Morsel Photography Hi Jerry! Look I stole more of your photos!)

The day kicked off with Ford saying, “here, go run our car through that slalem course, hard as you can”. Oh reallllly?!?! I got this.

I made that thing fly, and below is me standing on the brakes, and tada, cones are prefectly intact. I told them I was surprised how well it took the corners. Torque vectoring FTW.

Remember that time I did advanced driving school? Exploring a Race Car (video)

Each team was given an iPod Touch to film their experiences, and then Ford handed us our footage from the day on a USB key.  So sorry for the poor audio.

Have you ever edited iPod or iPhone footage?  Ugh.  All that tall footage is tough to work with. And I don’t get it, why wouldn’t Final Cut talk better with .movs? Anyway.

How many horse power? Would you like a cupcake?

I learned that a horse is 14.3 hands high, anything smaller is considered a pony.

We stopped by the Canadian Car Museum , so many nice cars.  I will never call them whips :|

Here’s Lauren and I, ha.

Interesting fact – the Focus is 85% of each pound of material used to build the car is recycled material.

Then I gave a little lecture.

Thanks for a great day, Ford!

If you ever need me to test another car on a track, I can do that!

All. Day. Long.