I drive a different car every week, and been keeping a list of features I’d like to see in more vehicles.
This is that list.
Read it online at Autonet.
Not all features need to be high tech. How about a proper dead pedal, and a handle on the inside of the trunk lid?
That’s my big items, what did I miss? Add yours to the list at Autonet.
Had help composing this list… Dan, Michael and Brian, thanks guys!
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Honda invited my blog to Mosport today, for their #TameTheTrack event in celebration of this weekend’s Indy race. Easily one of the best events I’ve attended.
First, I drove an open-wheel Formula F car.
Then a gokart race. I won my heat, and had the fastest lap time of the whole day.
Then, my first track time. A Civic Si around the development track for 45 minutes!
I have video, a ton of photos, and next week’s column is about mind control.
Because I’d put my concentration skills up against anyone’s, but by the end of that 45 I was losing it. And that these racers can focus intensely for 2 hours seems superhuman to me.
Thank you Honda! And how appropriate it was you to give me my first track time.
See also my column, ‘The Keri-Eco Car‘ – improve fuel economy by removing all the features and superfluousness.
The Micra is a car-car – blog tag / newspaper review / video
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From inside the factory – how Ford tests its F150 pickup truck before putting it into final production.
Read it online at Autonet.
One of the toughest tests Ford has created doesn’t involve robots, or any tech at all. Instead they used 6’7″ 300 lbs men they hired from Craigslist, and called it the “Big Man Test”.
Fun fact: Ford’s PR team said this is the first time the ‘Big Man Test’ story has ever been published in Canada.
YES to my story finding skills.
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From when I travelled with Ford to their proving grounds and factory last week.
Torque test.
Seat test for rattles.
That’s Mark, a 165 lb fake-human.
There are robots everywhere.
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