Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Canadians dominate the auto industry – but we’re pretty quiet about it – which is why this week I’d like to do some bragging, politely.
I’m singling out Nissan, BMW, GM, Chrysler, Ford and Toyota, then the auto journalists too.
Read it online at Autonet.
The ending – last 3 paragraphs:
And then there’s the Canadian auto journalists – and I think this is indicative of our culture – we are consistently booked into one of two waves…
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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index
Nashville, Tennessee – where the all-new 2014 Nissan Rogue is built; that’s why there.
I’ve always liked this city, here’s the blog tag.
Jeremy Sinek and I were drive partners again, I’ve introduced you before. We are hilarious.
We found this odd, movie-set-town inside the city; fake-land.
Not being a fan of music, the best of this city is lost on me.
Still fun night out with the auto journalist gang.
Some of us became obsessed with this street magician; he was so good, I’ll put him in his own post later this week. He put a cigarette out into my shirt.
Brand-new hotel, the Omni, it’s 2 weeks old new.
Which is how this came to be…
I’m laying on a hotel bed spread.
Cesspool! Usually soon as I enter the room, that thing gets ripped off and kicked in a corner.
Read my Nissan Rogue review here on Autonet.ca.
15 Years of weight gain.
Bet if it returned to a modern version of its roots, it’d sell well.
That’s Nissan’s all-new Friend-ME, designed specifically for young men in China; here’s my Autonet article.
It’s not easy being a young guy in China, a Bālínghòu -A Chinese male born in the 80s.
They must follow a lot of rules imposed by their society, and most of them have no siblings, so time with friends is considered precious.
It’s a huge demographic, and that’s why Nissan is going after all 240 milion of them. This demographic thinks about cars in an all-new way, and will influence the way they’re built in the future.
Cool eh, especially the level of built-in internet connectivity.
Friend-ME = Mandarin Bālínghòu 八零后(simplified) or 八零後(traditional) translates directly into 80 After…. or After the 80’s.
Bā = 8
líng = 0
hòu = after/later
Still, I’m not totally comfortable talking as I do here on KeriBlog though, otherwise I’d have called it…
… the “Nissan ForeverAlone” ahaha comeON
Some of my neater topics of recent news stories. Click through to read the story.
Here’s my Autonet.ca news section, updates with 3 articles/week.
In 1998, LA Magazine predicts what cars will be like today, and they got a lot right.
Volvo’s trying to make a car smell like nothing, because that delicious “new car smell” is actually, low level emissions from the materials.
Nissan designs robots to behave like schools of fish, then uses them for autonomous car research.
Google chooses Volkswagon as its first-ever automotive parnter / collaborator.
