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From the monthly archives:

April 2006

Politically incorrect driving observations

April 30, 2006

For years, the city of Markham, in the north end of Toronto has been known as a scary place to drive. With it’s very high percentage of Asian Canadian drivers, it is a community of expensive import cars that all sport road rash of some sort or another. Of course over the years, this phenomenon [...]

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Trans Americas Journey

April 28, 2006

You could call this an Ultimate Road Trip. Karen Catchpole and Eric Mohl have put all their stuff into storage and plopped their butts into a 2006 Chevy Silverado Pick-up to set off on an adventure. The husband and wife team plan to spend the next three years travelling 70,000 miles through North, South and [...]

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Lotus Elise goes racing

April 28, 2006

At the risk of beginning to look like a single marque blog, here I go showing off more Elise shots. Mark Vicuna from OZ pointed me towards his blog, where he’s got pics and videos of his Elise race car. Very cool. I just wish he was in Canada so I could hit him up [...]

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It’s almost Friday!

April 27, 2006

It’s Thursday, which means that we’re all anxiously awaiting tomorrow’s Carnival of Cars reviews by Mark Tapscott. Each week he slaves away to ensure that all the car blogs get their few moments of glory & we all appreciate the effort.

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More Elise Pics

April 27, 2006

Chris over at My Lotus elise has been at it again. This time he’s taken his camera and the Elise and invaded a cemetary for some bright and cheerful shots.

After a rainfall, Chris also managed to catch some great reflections.

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2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

April 26, 2006

There seems to be some interesting action over in the Jeep camp lately and I can’t wait to see the end results. Perhaps the biggest news is that they’ve finally come to grips with some branding issues that have gone on for years.

Years ago, the Jeep marketing boys in the US decided that the CJ [...]

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Super cool beer opener

April 25, 2006

Ok, so this isn’t automotive at all, but what could be cooler than a bike chain beer opener? It’s definately something cool to have in The Garage hanging from the beer fridge. Thanks to Arieanna for turning us on to this device that’s available from ELSEWARES for only 12 bucks! Check out foodies for another [...]

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Lightning Mcqueen FOUND!

April 25, 2006

After a full three hours of running around yesterday afternoon, we arrived at the NASCAR Speedpark at Vaughan Mills. We actually reached the mall about 2 minutes after the display ended, which turned out to be a good thing, as we got to see a little bit more than most people did. Just like the [...]

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Cars event found!

April 24, 2006

The Cars Tour is coming to the Nascar Speedpark at Vaughn Mills Mall in the Toronto area today from 3 till 7. It looks like we’ll leave work a bit early & load the kids into the car to check out the cool little beasts. The stupid thing is that I’m probably more excited than [...]

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Car’s Road Trip 2006

April 24, 2006

Over the weekend, a bunch of blogs wrote about the upcoming Car’s Road Trip sponsored by State Farm. I was excited this morning when I read that the tour was coming to Toronto. It was a bit shocking to realize that they are supposed to be in town TODAY. Of course there is no listing [...]

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