Refresh VS Redesign – What’s the Difference

Sounds similar, but there’s a huge difference:

Refresh = slightly updated from the previous model year
Redesign = all-new from the ground up

How to know which it is? Use the 5-year Test – typically, a vehicle is redesigned once every five years.

Read it online at Autonet.

Use this to your advantage when shopping, because all-new doesn’t mean it’s all-better (see last 3 paragraphs)

Favourite line:

Say to the salesman: Next year the car is being redesigned, so who is going to want this year’s model? It’s about to become outdated, so give me a better price!

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All Vehicles Must Contain These Features

From posts and seats, to manuals and lights, all passenger vehicles must contain certain features according to the CMVSS – Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard.

I read the handbook, here’s the more interesting ones:

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

I saved the saddest for last – the note that horn emits must be a sound associated with a  warning device, meaning musical tunes are not allowed. 

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Today is World Backup Day

Although really, everyday should be backup day. Here, I made a list:

The Minimal to Backup

– password manager file (you have one right)
– contacts
– calendar
– bookmarks

Things to remember:

– always backup twice – here

– do big backups in chunks  – here

– if you’re using the cloud, here’s what your data looks like this

– and if everything goes west, data can still be recovered from this

 

 

The World’s Most Powerful 4-Cylinder Engine

That title goes to Mercedes-Benz and their  2.0L 4-cylinder turbocharged engine found inside the CLA 45 AMG.

355 hp
332 lb.ft of torque
0-100 km/h in 4.6 seconds
Top speed – 250 km/h
Engine is hand-built, start to finish, by one technician

Starting at $50,600
Sold out in Canada

(pictured above is a CLA 250, but the AMG looks similar enough, with the main difference being the badge on the back)

(non car nerds: AMG is Mercedes’ line of high-performance vehicles, see this chart)

(to be clear – the post title refers to a “production engine found in a consumer vehicle”)

(I did not mean for this post to have so many brackets)

 

 

HD Rabbit Ears for TV

Sounds like a contradiction eh. But it actually exists, my neighbour uses them.

On a clear night there’s about 15 crisp channels to choose from, but on a stormy night we’re stuck watching a PBS documentary go in and out of focus.