Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
Gone are the days of the Pacers and K-cars. No matter which make & model you choose today, you can’t really buy a “bad car.”
Be mindful of these 3 points, and spend the majority of your budget on the engine – the thing that makes a car a car. The rest is styling.
Read it online at Autonet.ca
What it comes down to is the styling of the car, and I (or any other auto journalist) can’t tell you what to like; only you can know that.
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Read in online at Autonet.ca
For this week’s column, I wrote about a new type of website – don’t like how someone is driving? Take a photo of their licence plate and car, upload it to one of these websites, and broadcast what you think for all the world to see.
This is dirty, and really, who are you to judge?
From a distance, someone driving to the hospital while under medical duress, might appear the same as a drunk driver. Not linking to those sites.
All so you can what, be a tattle-tale? A budget vigilante?
and:
2 of my favourite internet lines – ‘the internet is forever’ & ‘Google never forgets’
I was in Oregon with Acura when this printed, so being 3 hours behind I woke up to discover this column was a topic on the radio show AM 640!
(non-Toronto people, this is one of the most popular talk-radio shows)
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Follow these 5 steps to backup a trailer.
Read it online here:
The most important part to remember is – don’t do the math on the weight being towed, instead it’s the GVWR – gross vehicle weight rating.
Made a video to go along with this week’s column.
Thanks to my driving buddy that day, Jeremy Sinek, for helping me film! We also won the fuel economy challenge, helped by that I didn’t drive.
Here we are with a Tyranasaurs Rex.
Where the video came from.
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The Solomon Curve shows the relationship between average speed and collision rates.
Drivers at the greatest risk are those moving slower than the rest of traffic.
The fastest way to get in a crash, is to go slow.
Interesting eh – speed doesn’t kill, slowness does.
And really, if the road feels too fast for you, stay off of it.
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It’s car season in Canada now, nice.
If you’re going to the track, here’s a few tips to keep in mind. Ladies – pay most attention to the last one.
The race name I gave myself:
Keri Amateur Hour of the Put-put Division
“Keri Queen-of-the-Late-Brakers Potipcoe” is another possibility.
Here’s the blog post about the day on the track I mention, and here’s the video.
Ahh that iconic checkered flag.
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