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 […]
Thursday Fun: Drones checking claims, 2015 may set a record for vehicle sales and China goes wild for electric cars
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 30, 2015 — We usually run these on Fridays, but there’s no reason you should miss your weekly dose of fun and weird stories just because of the holidays. We’ve got the usual mix of noteworthy, unusual and downright bizarre stories from the automotive world. – General Motors […]
Friday Fun: KIA joins the self-driving game, Uber angers transit and China’s car boom might bust
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 17, 2015 — Welcome to another collection of interesting items from the week that was: – California has announced new rules around autonomous vehicles (AVs). Apparently Google is disappointed that the state is going to require that cars being used have at least one real human in the vehicle. […]
Friday Fun: Cyclists make better drivers, the new Tesla’s ‘ludicrous speed,’ and 3D printed parts
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 8, 2015 — Welcome to this week’s installment of the odd and interesting news from around the automotive industry. – The 2016 Ford F-150 will continue to utilize the new aluminum body, but now you’ll be able to power it with natural gas. The new model will include […]
Friday Fun: Auto sales spike, the world’s most high-end garage and custom culture films
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 3, 2015 — Welcome to another weekly look at the weird, the funny and the just plain bizarre from the world of cars. – The auto industry has finally caught on to this whole Black Friday thing. Sales in malls and at consumer goods stores may have been […]
Friday Fun: Insurance scam goes wrong, BMW’s art cars and the open source car
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 26, 2015 — Our weekly collection of highlights, lowlights and general weirdness from the last week. – A perfect example of how not to pull of an insurance scam unfolded recently in Ireland. David Ward, driving an Opel Corsa, rear-ended a Volkswagen Passat driven by Lynsey Ivory. Both […]
