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 Shelby GT500Somebody had to come to Road Atlanta to thrash the 2013 662-horsepower Shelby GT500 around the fabled Road Atlanta race track. It was my turn to take one for the team. It was especially poignant doing this one week to...
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 When does Smart become Stupid?Mazda is one of the few Japanese car companies which even seems to know about the 'lane-change' turn signal. You know the deal - a light touch on the turn signal lever gives you three flashes, just what you need...
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 Carroll ShelbyAs every car enthusiast knows by now, Carroll Shelby passed away last Thursday. We're saddened if not entirely shocked; after all, Carroll was 89 years old - a good innings by any reckoning - and lived his entire life under...
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 Lane Markings in the Rain?Been away from here for a bit, doing the AJAC EcoRun, a demonstration of various fuel-efficient cars and driving techniques. Hope you've been following the event on wheels.ca - Jil McIntosh, Gary Grant and I were blogging on it throughout....
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 Making Streets Safer for Pedestrians and CyclistsI fully subscribe to (and share) the motivations of Toronto's Medical Officer of Health Dr. James McKeown, whose report on how to reduce danger to pedestrians was presented to Toronto City Council yesterday. I lost a sister to a 'pedestrian-motor...
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 Strange cars in Strange PlacesThere I was, whipping through the hills north of St-Tropez in the Mercedes-Benz AMG SL 63. At or below the speed limit, of course. I passed a garage named "Relais Automobile de l'Esterel", parked in front of which was a...
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 A Good News Story - with a Moral, with Morals, and with Morale!It wasn't like I was leaving my passport renewal to the last minute. It was a week ago Friday, and I didn't need it until the following Tuesday. Five whole days! Walk in the park. Not that the passport had...
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 Just Who is Teaching your Kids how to Drive?OK, it's a lousy picture (relax; taken by my passenger). So you'll have to take my word for it that this is a Driving School car. Still, notice anything? Yes, it is raining. Yes, it is quite dark - in...
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 Aren't We All Glad......we didn't remove our winter tires? (You didn't, did you?) OK, so we didn't quite get the 5 cm that at least one forecast I saw predicted, not at Kenzie World Headquarters anyway. But we got enough - and it...
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 Will They Never Learn?One tidbit that escaped my attention at the recent New York Auto Show was a display of humankind's never-ending optimism. Or stupidity, depending on your perspective. Because if there's a way to make a horrible car even worse, someone will...
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 The full moon was almost two weeks ago...Nine high-end white cars, parked side-by-each. A most unusual coincidence, I think anyone would agree. I took an innocuous little picture of it, using a new 'panoramic' iPhone app I had just acquired. I had a bit of fun speculating...
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 High School Students Fight Distracted DrivingSMARTRISK is a terrific non-profit organization whose purpose is to encourage people (largely but not exclusively young people) to prevent injury by smart thinking and intelligent risk management. SMARTRISK was started some two decades ago by Dr. Robert Conn, a...
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 They Can Afford Nice Cars......too bad they don't know how to park them. Got a new app for my Piece of Crap iPhone I4 called 'Photosynth' on a tip from Russ Bond of the Canadian Karting League. It takes a series of photos, then...
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 Big Brother is watching you.........from all directions. It's not bad enough that we drivers have to waste precious brain synapses scanning the sides of the road in two dimensions, watching for police officers skulking behind road signs, hedges, bridge abutments, on their unending quest...
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 Manhattan Motoring Moments - 3 of several...Normally, 'modern art' and I don't go together. I'm one of those Philistines who is absolutely convinced that I could take some spray paint cans and masking tape and do a Barnett Newman in about twenty minutes. And I'd only...
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 Manhattan Motoring Moments - 2 of several...Here's a pretty rare scene in New York City: Yes, a domestic-branded car, this one a Buick Lucerne. Apart from cabs, you don't see many domestic-nameplate passenger cars here. Anecdotal evidence, true, but on one city block (can't remember exactly...
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 Aren't we glad......we didn't switch to our summer tires? Depending on where you live within the GTA, you may have encountered some snow yesterday. Nowhere near the Doomsday scenario presented by the weather forecasters - are those people congenitally pessimistic, or do...
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 I am not sexist - really...Having three daughters will pound any ideas you might have had about unequal opportunities for women right out of you. That said, I don't go as far as Liz Lemon, Tina Fey's character on '30 Rock', when she wonders why...
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 Portland Oregon street signs, 3 of 3OK, so not all Portland-area road signs make sense. So, STOP if necessary but not necessarily STOP? Isn't that sort of like YIELD? Which is what 90 percent of our STOP signs should be anyway.
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 Portland Oregon street signs, 2 of 3Following up on yesterday's Sign of the Day, if only Portland traffic officials would remove the 'Trucks - Campers - Trailers - Buses' qualifier in the top two lines and replace it with 'EVERYBODY', it would be the perfect sign....
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 Portland Oregon street signs, 1 of 3If there IS more than one lane, and one of them HAS to end, then it has to be the left lane! Why? Because the right lane is the DRIVING lane, fer cryin' out loud. And also the lane the...
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 Turning Left in a 2013 Ford MustangThis (click here) is the redesigned taillight for the 2013 Ford Mustang, with its sequential operation. Anybody remember the first car with sequential turn signals?
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 So, why is this car ankle-deep in water?That's the 2013 Ford Taurus. I was going for the old 'reflection in a puddle of water' shot, and maybe went a little too far. We're somewhere between Portland Oregon and the Pacific Ocean, and when you see moss that's...
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 I mean, seriously??Up way before first sparrow fart this morning, to catch a 7:10 A.M. departure to a Ford event in Portland Oregon. Yes, Virginia, there IS a 7:10 A.M. On the eastbound 401 at 5:40 A.M. And while the traffic wasn't...
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 A New Arrival at Kenzie World HeadquartersWe are now officially a two-Toy family. In addition to the 1996 Corolla that Number Three daughter 'inherited' some years ago (eleventy billion km on it; the engine still runs like a top but everything else is very dubious...) we...
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