I was in Birmingham, Alabama last week to attend the Porsche Sport Driving School – USA at George Barber’s Barber Motorsport Park (no relation to Skip Barber). My schooling starts with a lead follow lapping session in a Carrera S 6MT with myself trying to stay with Hurley Haywood, a six-time 24 Hours of Daytona champion. After a half-dozen or… Read more →
Category: Videos
Cool cards for the holiday season
Some Christmas cards arrive in the mail while others come via email. Mercedes-Benz Canada went the latter route, so I can share it here: Happy Holidays! Hyundai Canada’s card is great too. The white wintery picture on the front breaks up into half-a-dozen gift tags that’ll go nicely with our wrapping paper choice. Anyway, happy holidays to all my family,… Read more →
Video: 2011 Volvo S60 T6 AWD
The 2011 Volvo S60 is perhaps the safety luxury sport sedan on the planet. In this quick video, I demonstrate Volvo’s City Safety (pedestrian avoidance) feature. More specifically, I show how the Auto Brake feature works. And, yes, it does work. Related posts: Video: 2011 Subaru WRX STI Sedan Video: 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S 2011 Canadian Car of the… Read more →
Video: 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S
This is me driving the 2011 Porsche Turbo S on the airport runway test track at AJAC’s annual TestFest event. It’s also where Automobile Journalists Association of Canada members spend a week driving and voting for the next Canadian Car of the Year. I didn’t bring a video camera this year, but my pals at Wheels on Edge were there… Read more →
Wheels on Edge captures Journauto in 911 Turbo S
Just finished writing my Autonet.ca piece on judging the Prestige category at the annual AJAC TestFest this past week. The weather was great for this time of year ( a bit windy at times) and I accomplished what I’d set out to do. That is, to drive some of the most expensive cars money can buy in Canada and drive… Read more →
Video: 2011 Subaru WRX STI Sedan
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 Subaru’s fastest lap time ever… Read more →
Testing Pirellis greenest tires
Yesterday I went to a Pirelli Ride and Drive where I drove on Pirelli’s newest “Green” tire – Scorpion Verde All-Season – back-to-back against the Michelin Latitude H/T A/S in identically-prepped BMW X5 35d xDrive diesels. Conveniently, there was a handling course set up for us – consisting of a quick four-cone slalom leading into a sweeping right-hander with rumble… Read more →
Canuck Car of the Year
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 a week in the picturesque… Read more →
Rollerman insane in the membrane
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 didn’t see this with my… Read more →
The love tap
In motorsports, the love tap is usually administered by the competition to let you know you’re going too slow. Well, not this time. In this video, he’s clearly trying to tell the guy in front, I love you, which is when it all goes to hell. See for yourself here. Hugs. (Big LOL!!) Related posts: A gymkhana redux: session 1… Read more →