January 2010
37 posts
The 2010 Edmonton Motor Show Recap →
The 2010 Edmonton Motor Show was this past weekend, in case you forgot to look at your calendar. As you would expect, CarEnvy was there in full force. Ok, so it was just me and a few…
An Early 19th Century Joke, Still Relevant
She: ‘It much be fine to be a motorist’.
He: ‘Alas, young lady, many people think it should be fine and imprisonment.’
Lotus Elise Racing: It Doesn’t Get Any Better →
This video is far from new, but watching it again brings no shortage of joy to my cold, Canadian heart. This remains one of the best documented examples of wheel-to-wheel…
Jack Baruth: The Toyota Prius As A Luxury Car →
Jack Baruth is as well known for his skill on the race track as his editorials on the internet. I’ve been reading Avoidable Contact for nearly two years now. Since then, Baruth decreed…
Breaking: Williams F1 FW32 Spyshot →
Autosport has managed to secure the first spy shot of the 2010 Williams F1 car as it broke cover and tested at Silverstone earlier today. For more on the FW32 and how it differs from…
F1 News: Ferrari and McLaren Bring the Fight to... →
Earlier today, Scuderia Ferrari unveiled their 2010 Formula One championship contender, which they’ve named the F10 in firm hopes of channeling some of their illustrious past victory….
One Of 25 Ferrari 166MM Barchettas Found In A... →
Feast your senses on the sun-baked product of 1950’s Italian racing heritage and the Arizona heat. Left uncovered for most of the last 50 years, this rarity of rarities has been…
What Does A Honda N360 With Yamaha V-Max Headers... →
This is what a Yamaha’d kei car takes up for space. Not much. Not that an un-Yamaha’d kei car would take up any more room, but maybe I should just stop making up words and get on with…
Bugatti Veyron Mouse: That’ll Show NBC →
You may have heard about the current Late Night Wars situation going on in the land of our fair neighbours to the South, especially since globally-renowned car fanatic nutball
Why The Lexus LFA Needs 50 More Horsepower →
The Lexus LFA isn’t getting the respect it deserves. “It costs too much”, they unimaginatively opine. “The shifts are too abrasive”, they continue. Was anyone this harsh on the…
Mini In A Winter Wonderland →
Designed by Sir Alec Issigonis and first produced 51 years ago, the Mini was a revolutionary front-engined front-driver that maximized occupant capacity like no car before it.
Throw some…
The Indelible Story Of The Renaultsport Hot Hatch →
For Canadians, the Renaultsport brand-within-a-brand may be unfamiliar, which is just fine because Renault doesn’t currently sell its wares on this continent. Perhaps the first time you…
Toyota FT-86 G Sport Concept at Tokyo Auto Salon →
The Toyota FT-86, when it reaches production under the Celica badge, will be an automobile built with the same passion as the Lexus LFA but at 1/10th the cost. If this all sounds…
Hydro-Québec to Test Mitsubishi iMiEV! →
If you live in or near Boucherville, you might be seeing iMiEVs tooling around town very soon. Follow the jump for more.
At the 2010 Montreal International Auto Show, during…
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Why You Should Care (And Worry) About The 2010... →
It would be too easy to assume that Ross Brawn, despite the driver in the seat, is a sufficiently brilliant strategist to conjure up Formula 1 victories from nothing more than willpower….
WRC News: Ken Block’s Monster World Rally Team... →
Ah, Ken Block. Is there anything you can’t do?
Apparently not. Follow the jump for more.
The ridiculously talented (and utterly mad) American rally driver Ken Block will be…
“You buy a Ford for cheapness, a Chevy for style, a Chrysler for engineering.”
– LJK Setright, from Drive On! a social history of the motor car, referencing the American maxim held between 1916-25.
Aston Martin’s Totally Unreleastic Cygnet... →
By use of this title, I’m not referring to the parkour-practitioners here depicted. It’s awesome, what they do. Visually, this video is loads of fun to watch.
But is…
I love Japanese cars. In fact, I would consider myself something of an automotive Nipponophile. But I can’t for the life of me understand their overwhelming reluctance to include telescoping steering wheels on their vehicles.
Ride Along in the SLS AMG F1 Safety Car →
Ever wonder what it’s like to be Bernd Mayländer? Or, at least, wonder what it’s like to ride alongside him as he’s taking the F1 Safety SLS AMG around any given F1 circuit…
How Hard Can It Be? Bitter SC and Ferrari 400i →
This isn’t the normal How Hard Can It Be? It doesn’t talk about a basketcase nightmare of a car that we, with a delusional infusion of cash and imagination, would restore to its…
It’s not often enough that I am given the privelege of the sights and sounds of a Lamborghini Murcielago. Today I was.
Travis Pastrana’s New World Record →
On New Year’s Eve, at Red Bull’s 2010 New Year No Limits show, Travis Pastrana successfully jumped his Subaru WRX STI an astonishing 269 feet, from a pier on Long Beach to…
Happy New Years.
Joyeux nouvelle anne from Honolulu, the least Canadian place I can think of to bring in the new year. May the new decade bring as many automotive delights and wonders as the previous.
I just wish Hawaii had cooler cars…
Review: 2010 Audi S4 →
By Mark Atkinson
Fans of understated Q-cars should be celebrating because Audi’s latest S4 rocketship is all new for 2010, and not to spoil the plot at all, but it’s very, very good. It…
