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From the monthly archives:

December 2007

Photo Gallery: Formula 1 in the paddock at 2007 VARAC Festival

December 31, 2007

It’s been a great day of cooking and the odd celebratory beverage as we wait to welcome the new year. The house is about to get really rambunctious as 6 families arrive to share New Years Eve 2008. In these last few quiet moments I thought that a gallery of vintage F1 cars from this [...]

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Place your Bets

December 30, 2007

Lose a billion or so, garner a Motor Trend Car of the Year award. It’s been that kind of an upside down year for the General. But 2008 might get off to a positive bang with odds in the favor of GM to win the prestigious North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.
In [...]

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Rolls on a Roll

December 30, 2007

Everyone knows that the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe is a drop dead gorgeous automobile . The rich and famous have now spoken with their checkbooks to reinforce that belief
Sales of Rolls-Royce cars for 2007 are expected to be up by nearly 25 per cent over the previous year, fuelled partly by strong demand for [...]

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Video: 1987 Rocky Mountain Rally

December 30, 2007

I just came across this great video of the Rocky Mountain Rally way back in 1987 courtesy of Shawn Bishop at Rallysport.ca
This was a time when rear wheel drive rally cars still dominated the Canadian rally scene. I was at the Rally of the Tall Pines in 98 or 99 when Tim Bendle brought that [...]

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Exhaust noise: Our first weekly news podcast

December 30, 2007

As readers may have noticed, Jeff Bressler has become a big part of daily life here in The Garage. Our little corner of the net gives him an outlet for some of those emissions that he can’t vent over at his daily haunt. Every weekend, The Garage will now offer an audio week in review, [...]

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Carnival of Wheels: 1st Anniversary Edition

December 30, 2007

Can you believe it? It has been a year since Mark Tapscott put the Carnival of Cars on hold and I decided to start the Carnival of Wheels. That is 52 consecutive Sunday’s of reading some great content from the auto bloggers and mashing it all together for our readers. We’ve met some interesting new [...]

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Video: Laborghini Murcielago R-GT

December 29, 2007

There are times when Euro supercars just make me shake my head. The incredible sounds emanating from this Lightweight Lambo could just as easily be from a F1 car rather than from a road based coupe. Turn the speakers way up and prepare to be amazed.
After the break of course:

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Day tripping ideas: Black Creek Pioneer Village

December 28, 2007

Here in The Garage, we are taking a couple of weeks vacation. But this isn’t your regular vacation, as we are really doing next to nothing for a change. We have been hanging around the house, saw a movie and are doing the usual holiday season stuff. Beyond that, we are taking the odd day [...]

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For the Eyes of a Bat

December 28, 2007

This one looks a little scary and could keep me awake at night.
Toyota will unveil a concept for a small hybrid pickup at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month.
Toyota said the A-BAT truck was conceived by its U.S. sales and design experts with suburban drivers [...]

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Barley Missed

December 28, 2007

Maybe you can live without barley soup in favor of doing your part for the environment by supporting ethanol use. But beer? Well that’s a different story.
Many farmers in the Pacific Northwest, where our nations hop production is concentrated, have turned to more profitable lines, especially corn, which can be made into ethanol. The decrease [...]

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