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 tourist town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. We weren’t there for the scenery or the wine tasting, though naturally many do partake (long after driving shoes and gloves are put away of course).

My fellow journalist members of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) and I were all driven by purpose, to find out who makes the “Best New” cars, trucks and SUV/CUVs in this great country.

As part of AJAC’s annual Canadian Car of the Year Awards program, we put a whole whack of these to the test through three full days of intensive, back-to-back testing and evaluation off and on the track.

We call this week TestFest and here this year’s crop of “Best News”… Continue reading Canuck Car of the Year

National Geographic, Inside: GT-R

The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.”

‘Twas the night before “TestFest,” when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even my mouse.

My Pilotis sat snug in their space near the door.

In hopes that my feet would soon be there;

The dog sleeping [...]