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
(taken at a desk at BHG – they manage fleets of press cars)
In the fall of 2011, when I was getting press car after car, I decided it was full blog steam ahead, in one direction – I chose cars.
When I returned in May, from living in the States, I was right back to driving a different car every week. I took the June photo above, then tucked it away under, ‘future collage’; waiting for when I felt I could back it up.
– auto team member of one of our largest newspapers
– 3 months of my weekly opinion column, ‘Keri on Driving’
– news articles every week
– first proper, detailed car review done
– hit my goal of testing $1 million worth of cars ($1,096,300) by end-of-year
– might hold the nation’s record for ‘longest duration with the same press car’ (4 weeks)
– probably produced, single-handlely, more content for Honda Canada than anyone else, this year
– 1 AJAC ‘Test Fest’
– 5 mini-track days
– 1 huge track day, that turned out to be an airport, COMEon
I removed “New” from my bios, the occasion has been documented with this post, now, on to the next.
Drive more cars, get faster at writing news pieces; have better consistency; maybe take an engine class; I found my opinion voice, now find my review voice. Then guys, I think where I can really bring it all together, is: car adventure videos. That’s what I’m daydreaming of, these past pensive weeks.
Thanks for cheering me on over the years, please keep doing that.
