Category: Videos

Porsche Sport Driving School – USA

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 →

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 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 →