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CADA Partners with Sun Media

I was sent to cover the new partnership between Sun Media and CADA – Canadian Automobile Dealers Association.

(read it online)

Very basically – if you own a new car dealership, you must be a member of CADA.

This was a big deal; this handshake marks the first time in CADA’s 71-year history, that the organization has an outlet to reach the public.

They’re excited to give 24hrs readers a behind-the-scenes look at dealerships!

That’s CADA CEO and president Rick Gauthier, and Sun Media’s Tony Lepera, senior national sales executive.

 

 

 

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Aside:

It was a small auto section for the newspaper this week, so above, plus my column and a news piece I wrote, and tada…

… that’s me writing 75% of this week’s ‘Your Autonet.’

(when I picked up the paper Wednesday morning, I freaked.

Something like, “omg there’s another one, wait WOAH WHAT noooo YES omg and stomach and yesssss so into this printed thing…)

 

 

The Giorno Scooter Launch Party

Held at the Thompson Hotel last week.

I’ve never ridden a scooter. Had a bike (Ninja) for a couple years, that’s it.

Pretty good looking, eh.

I’d like to wear a billowy dress, while cruising downtown.

It uses Honda’s all-new automatic transmission; no more shifting gears, just twist and go.

The law is: 50 cc and below can park for free in the city. This scooter is 49 cc.

I wrote about the Giorno on Autonet.

Clever headline, eh (that’s not me, that’s my boss Joe).

Max speed 60km/h     $2,299     The Giorno

Lecturing Teenage Drivers

They need it.

Per kilometre, teen drivers are involved in more crashes than any other age group.

(read it online)

Favourite line:

[slow down] This is not a knock; it is just logic – the only way to become a good driver is through increased seat time. But you just became licensed to sit in that seat.”

 

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Going to a Detail Shop? Do This

Tips and tricks for taking your car to a detail shop.

(read it online)

Favourite lines:

Remove the weird stuff you’re hiding in your trunk from whomever.

You’d be surprised at how many people keep weapons in their vehicle’s gloveboxes (remember that, next time your road rage out on another driver).

A toothbrush for the vents in the dash.

A micro-fibre cloth dusts the interior, no chemicals needed.

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Understanding ‘Car of the Year’ Testing & Results

AJAC – Auto Journalist Association of Canada – hosts this annual event, ‘Test Fest.’

They bring in 180+ new model vehicles, and auto writers from across Canada, to the Niagara Falls Drive Centre, for a full week of testing and voting to determine ‘Car of the Year‘.

(read my original ‘Test Fest’ post here)

This is the vehicle I’m driving in the video, the all-new Mercedes B250.

Nice car, it is a Mercedes, and note the asterisks:

That’s how you choose drive, park, neutral; different eh.

It’s billed as a “family car”, but I don’t understand where all the stuff goes, the stuff that comes along with a family. This car would work best if your family also had a van, too.

As a new auto journalist, this was my first time at ‘Test Fest’, and was blown away by the logistics, and high level of authenticity of it all.

So I wrote about it for this week’s ‘Keri on Driving’ column.

(read it online here)

Favourite Line:

The last one – “Even I wouldn’t listen to me”

29 years of results are posted http://www.AJAC.ca. Go search your car, see how it fared.

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