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Friday Fun: Staged collision caught on tape; GM accused of rigging emission tests

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 25, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun looks at a fraudster caught in the act of staging a collision, the Exotic Driver’s Club comes to Winnipeg, reports that GM has also been accused of rigging emissions tests and much, much more! – According to a story in Today’s Trucking, […]

Trevor Nott, President of Nott Autocorp and one of the founders of Winnipeg's new Exotic Driver's Club, with a Lamborghini Galardo Coupe, one of eight cars being offered for rental through club.

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Friday Fun: Blue makes a comeback, Vancouver’s traffic trouble and Ontario’s electric efforts

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 17, 2017 — In this week’s edition of Friday Fun, we look at how blue is coming back as a popular colour for cars, Vancouver somehow manages to increase traffic congestion without increasing the number of cars, how one economist believes fossil fuel vehicles will disappear within […]

Blue is set to make a comeback as a popular car colour, according to a columnist in Quebec weekly The Suburban.

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Friday Fun: Backup cameras coming by 2018 and telematics spark privacy concerns

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 11, 2017 — This week’s Friday Fun takes a look at the coming age of mandatory back-up cameras, how the City of Hamilton tried to argue that a little boy hit by a car while crossing the street was “contributorily negligent,” what the BC election might mean for […]

Come 2018, most vehicles sold in Canada will include mandatory backup cameras.

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Friday Fun: Nylon straps in place of repairs and a baby born in a bodyshop

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 4, 2017 — In this week’s Friday Fun, we look into another jury-rigged repair pulled over by the police, the joyous news of a a baby girl born in a bodyshop, why research firm Edmunds thinks electric vehicles may never catch on south of the border and much, […]

We definitely appreciate creative solutions, but “repairing” a transport trailer probably isn’t the best place to try them out. Ontario Provincial Police pulled this truck over when an alert officer noticed the nylon straps.

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Friday Fun: Post-apocalyptic customs and unusual PDR tools

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 27, 2017 — This week’s Friday Fun looks at how all three of Canada’s coasts will finally be connected by permanent roads, a Fort McMurray resident who customized a “post-apocalyptic” car in honour of the city’s residents resilience in the face of the 2016 fire, a new […]

A Fort McMurray resident gave this Honda Civic a 'post-apocalyptic' look to honour the city's resilience during the fire of 2016.

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Friday Fun: Tesla promises a pickup; Lambo destroyed in the name of art

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 20, 2017 — This week we look at two Lamborghinis that were destroyed in wildly different ways, why Ontarians pay more than anyone else car insurance, Elon Musk’s plans for the future of Tesla and much, much more! – A Lamborghini was completely destroyed after crashing […]

An art piece entitled 'Low Key' on display at a museum in Denmark. Patrons were encouraged to leave their mark on a once-pristine Lamborghini.

Friday Fun: Unskilled carjackers and why wood shouldn’t be used for suspension repairs

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 13, 2017 — This week’s Friday Fun tells the stories of an armed carjacking that went in an unexpected direction, Ford’s new pursuit-rated hybrid police car, why wooden logs and chicken wire shouldn’t be used for suspension repair and much, much more! – A 34-year-old Toronto woman was […]

That log you see is not the result of a collision with a lumber mill. It was used, along with some chicken wire, to effect a suspension 'repair.' Yeah, we're terrified too.

Friday Fun: Fast and the Furious racks up big bills and Bob Lutz’s no-holds barred take on Elon Musk

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 6, 2016 — This week’s Friday Fun looks at how a small corner of Quebec’s cottage country become the electric car capital of Canada, why techs in BC are finding rats in newer cars, auto industry legend Bob Lutz’s no-holds barred take on Elon Musk and much, much […]

A still from the seventh installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise. To date, the productions have destroyed $702 million worth of vehicles.

Friday Fun: A bad way to get a Porsche and 340 vintage vehicles are up for grabs

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 30, 2017 — In this week’s Friday Fun we hear about a shop owner who allegedly tried to steal a dead customer’s car, police in Italy foil a plot to steal the body of the original Ferrari (the man, not the car), why Highway 401 in Toronto is […]

Got $1.45 million burning a hole in your pocket? Over 340 vintage vehicles, plus five acres of land a number of buildings could be yours!

Friday Fun: Porsche gives out a huge bonus and some Alberta used car dealers are in trouble

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 23, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun takes another look at some of the bizarre and unusual news from the automotive world in the last week. This time we dig into a “spectacular collision” caught on video in Toronto, Porsche’s big bonus for every employee, how […]

A report out of the UK notes that a man regularly smuggled cocaine in a secret compartment in his Bentley. It might be lucrative, but we'd recommend turning down any work that involves putting a secret compartment into a customer's car.

Friday Fun: Mercedes-Benz set to roll out ultra-luxurious SUV and VW may hold merger talks with FCA

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 16, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun looks at the upcoming release of the world’s most expensive SUV, how President Trump’s plans to roll back fuel efficiency may end up costing people at the pump, yet more fallout from the emissions scandal and much, much more! […]

This is what a $300,000 SUV looks like. Mercedes-Benz will build just 99 of the Maybach G650.

Friday Fun: Weird winds and literal cattle cars

By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 9, 2017 — This week’s edition of Friday Fun looks into the vehicles damaged by the extremely strong winds that swept across Ontario earlier this week, a cautionary tale about not using passenger vehicles to transport cattle, how the “Bullitt” mustang was found rotting away at a scrapyard […]

Strong winds blew over a transport truck on the Skyway bridge in Hamilton, Ontario, leading police to close the bridge citing safety concerns. Photo by Kerry Schmidt.

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