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 […]
Friday Fun: Deer visits shop, rodents gnaw cars and Ford won’t imitate an ostrich
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 12, 2015 — This week’s update includes a deer who visited a collision centre, unusually high rodent damage claims in Manitoba and Ford’s Executive Chairman saying “We put can’t our heads in the sand” regarding the series of revolutions he sees in the auto industry’s near future. – A […]
Friday Fun: Good times in the auto industry, Tesla’s troubles and a car hits a collision centre (again)
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 5, 2015 — Herewith, a collection of interesting news bits related to the collision repair sector from the week that was: – Get ready for a whole batch of new cars to repair. Times are good in the Canadian auto industry. The sector reports that new car sales […]
Friday Fun: Dieselgate’s effects, AV insurance and Fenix makes acquisitions
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 15, 2015 — A collection of interesting goings-on in the auto world from the past week: – The VW scandal continues to generate some interesting knock-on effects. VW, of course, was caught cheating on emissions tests. The scandal has focused attention on emissions testing in general. There is some […]
Friday Fun: VW fallout hits Canada, Alcoa splits and Ferrari fury
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 1, 2015 — A collection of some of the news and events from the collision repair industry in the week that was: – The VW emissions scandal is, apparently, giving the entire auto industry a bad name. Cesare Pozzi, a professor at LUISS University in Rome, was quoted […]
Friday Fun: Holo displays, Porsche goes electric and Honda’s motorcycle soul
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — September 17, 2015 — Interesting bits and pieces from the week that was: – The Frankfurt auto show took place this last week. The opening address from Matthias Wissmann, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry, contained some interesting ideas. According to Wissman the “classical internal combustion […]
Friday Fun Reads: Car hacking, Apple’s e-vehicle, and deterring thieves
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — August 20, 2015 — Fun and interesting news bits and overlooked stories from the week that was: – The new and exciting world of criminal car hacking continues to evolve. Researchers have found that a car fitted with a new device from Metromile that allows the company users […]
