And That’s the 1st Month Complete

Before long I’ll be typing, and you’ll be reading: 4/12 or 33%

Had a good ending to the month.

Flew in last night, writing on the plane, and at dinner, probably 3,000 words today, curated 400 photos to 26, and tada, my fastest turn around time ever for a First Drive Car Review. Feel like that’s a real auto journalist accomplishment.

About GM’s 2015 Chevy Silverado & GMC Sierra on Autonet.ca. Prints next week.

And today marks done: challenge score = 100% on “blog updated daily Monday – Friday”. Said when I did, it’ll be added to my Twitter bio, kk, will.

Next week’s column was fun to research, “About Car Cloaking / Car Camo“.

Screenshot from a video I filmed  yesterday.

So massive, the biggest thing I ever reviewed, easily for sure.

Looks like OOK Incorporated’s recent staff expansion is successful, the 3-month mark has passed. I’ll introduce you soon. He’s how this following list can be published:

Next Week’s Videos:

– Chrysler’s slick seat system, it’s Stow-N-Go Technology!
– I’m typing fast
– I’m on a trampoline

Made a couple new headers.

Haha, but not a header.

Happy Chinese New Year today to you!
May you get exactly what you wish for this year.

Have a great weekend xo TTY Monday

 

 

An Accidentally Dramatic Photo

Doesn’t it look like a New York City car chase?

In reality, I’m stopped at a red light beside a tow truck that’s hauling movie cars.

Non-Torontonians – a lot of Hollywood and TV is filmed here, because it’s easy to make Toronto look like anywhere.

 

 

Inside Google Canada

One morning last week, a couple newspapers and my blog were invited to Google.

So flattered and excited; above.

Bright colours, open-concept-fun-atmosphere, the pool table room is where’d I’d be, then oh, let’s have our meeting in this tent.

It was a presentation about their auto division, which is growing fast.

Remember my column about ‘Uber Car Service’? Google just bought them for $250 million.

Learned about how people search and behave while shopping for cars. That’ll be it’s own post, or potentially a ‘Keri on Driving‘ column, still deciding.

See top right? That’s a camera recording our meeting. It was not mentioned, I just happened to notice. Maybe at Google it’s just expected that you’re on camera always.

Best Foursquare checkin ever.

 

 

Around the Track with Ken Block

Ford invited me to an event a few weeks back, Ken Block was in Toronto, and they’d set him up a course.

Non-car nerds: Ken Block, world-class precision driver and drifter. Sponsored by Ford, GoPro, Monster. Co-founded DC Shoes.

Watch him drift all of San Francisco:

He drives a 2013 Ford Fiesta ST RX43, outputting 650-hp and 650 lb-ft of torque, 0-100 km/h in 1.8 seconds.

Then, total luck, this happened:

We went around the course, it was about 90 seconds that felt like 2.

For such a maniacal sport, it was so calm in the cabin, surprised me; there’s less movement required than you may think.

We flew around,  I let myself get tossed around in the Gs, the entire cabin filled with smoke, and Ken drove so hard the car broke, making ours the final run of the day.

And then…

Above is the file list, no Ken footage, just poof: missing.  No explanation, that’s hard on a stomach.  Imagine writing that email to Ford… then one to Motoring TV… omg of all the footage to lose, in all the lands…

Adding to the disappointment: the footage of me driving the auto-cross course was also gone, and I’d driven so well that day.

Ken released his latest video, Gymkhana SIX. Wrote about it on Autonet yesterday, here. It’s ridiculous, go watch.