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Tommi Mäkinen is mackin’ it hard in this video, released to today by Subaru’s parent company Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. The vid is part of an advanced R&D project carried out at the world-famous the Nürburgring racetrack in Germany, using a 2011 model year Subaru WRX STI four-door sedan test mule. His time (7’55″00) is [...]
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Today is my birthday, but my present came early this year… About a month ago, I was back in Pahrump, Nevada to attend the 2010 Canadian AMG Performance Tour at the Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch. I’d first come here to drive the Nissan 370Z coupe when it launched. So, while I was here to drive [...] Forza Motorsport 3 is out for Xbox 360 and I’ve finally had some time to sink my teeth into it a bit. The short is this game tops the racing sim market. I played Sony’s Gran Turismo Prologue and FM3 delivers a closer-to-life driving experience. My reasons are plentiful, but the biggest difference might well [...] Alongside TestFest every year, the Automobile Journalist’s Association of Canada (AJAC) hosts an awards banquet to reward its members in a host of different writing, photography and layout categories. I haven’t won anything for my writing to date, but I did take home a couple photography awards in my first and second year as an [...] The first round of voting is over and there are winners and losers. Here’s a video of me thrashing around the Ste. Catharines Niagara District Airport runway test track in the one of the winners: They’re not all this crazy and “TestFest” is not all fun and games! Seventy of Canada’s top automotive journalists spent [...] TestFest has felt quite compressed this year and there just hasn’t been any quality time for photography or video work. Further complicating things is the fact it rained for all of day two, leaving the Ste.Catharines airport (where the event is held) a muddy bloody mess. Only thing missing is the wrasslin’ because it’s everywhere. I stumbled upon this in a VODcars video today. The quality sucks, soundtrack questionable and I’ve no idea when this was filmed. I think the Grimsel Pass is in the Swiss Alps and, before today, I’d never heard of Jean Yves Blondeau. A.k.a. Rollerman, he is certifiably, one crazy badass crazy mofo!!! And, if I [...] |
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