Friday Fun: Girl’s head stuck in tailpipe and Toronto traffic declared a state of emergency
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario – June 15, 2018 – In today’s Friday Fun: A festival goer gets head stuck in exhaust pipe, thefts of metal off new cars on the rise, former city planner declares Toronto traffic a state of emergency, and much, much more. A fantastic, absurd bit of news this […]
Friday Fun: Worst roads in Ontario and digital license plates
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — June 8, 2018 — In today’s Friday Fun: The worst roads in Ontario, China produces a knock-off Lambo, a distracted driving conviction for checking an Apple watch, and much, much more. A troubling police report from Connecticut details a dark conspiracy to kill a local autobody shop […]
Friday Fun: UK insurers target hotmail users, bodyshops battle gentrification in Vancouver
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 26, 2018 — The UK insurance industry embarrasses itself again, B.C. Liberals are accused of acting with malice on the ICBC file, and bodyshops do battle on gentrification in Vancouver. The war of words between the new government and the ousted Liberals continues in British Columbia continues. The […]
Friday Fun: Cold weather and hot fires
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 5, 2017 — In today’s Friday Fun: extreme weather drives huge business for collision repair facilities across Canada, a warning on car-share insurance, and much much more! Deep Freeze The past few weeks have been all about the cold weather in North America. The National Weather Service in […]
Friday Fun: World’s most distracted driver and rising oil prices
Toronto, Ontario — November 17, 2017 — In this week’s edition of Friday Fun, the world’s most distracted driver, a dodgy dent puller, the possibility of $200 a barrel oil and much, much more. – New Brunswick drivers are about to receive higher bills for car insurance. The new rates could arrive as early as […]
Friday Fun: Smokescreen mods, electric heavy trucks and flying cars
Toronto, Ontario — June 16, 2016 — Among the overlooked but fascinating news from the week just passed an important question is asked: What happens when the sheriff’s car is damaged in a crash, but the local autobody shop doesn’t do aluminim repairs? We also take a look at the latest updates on flying cars […]
Friday Fun: Airbag scandal gets worse, Microlattice is the lightest metal and Bill Nye gets NASCAR all wrong
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 4, 2016 — It’s time once again for our weekly wrap-up of the news that might have slid under your radar, including the latest on the airbag scandal, a metal that’s lighter than styrofoam and Bill Nye’s incorrect ideas on what people like about NASCAR. – The airbag […]
Friday Fun: Axalta finds favour on Wall Street, Daimler’s head visits Google and Takata can’t make airbags fast enough
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 28, 2016 — It’s time once again for our round-up of the unusual, the bizarre and the just plain funny stuff that happened in the last week. This time around, we’re looking at why the head of Apple’s car project is stepping down, how Takata can’t make airbags […]
Friday Fun: Saskatoon pounded by snow, repairers fight crime and a chicken farm yields over 200 classic British cars
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 21, 2016 — This week we take a look at the big snowstorm that hit Saskatoon, why the US Car Czar doesn’t believe we’ll see another record setting sales year in 2016 and the rare find of over 200 classic cars on a chicken farm in New Zealand. […]
Friday Fun: Enterprise goes exotic, Elon Musk knows Apple’s secret and Ford’s AVs try to handle snow
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 14, 2016 — Welcome to our latest round-up of interesting, unusual and occasionally worrying stories from the last week. This time around we bring you the news on Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s Exotic Car Collection, why Elon Musk knows Apple is working on a car and Ford’s attempts to build […]
