I recently moved into Edmonton, and it seems that even here, in Alberta’s storied capital city, they have some uncommon approaches to decorating their vehicles. This hearkens back to the couple of unique vehicles of Northern Ontario I showcased in a previous article. The first truck shown in that 2007-era piece was only a shadow [...]
I wrote previously about the idea of the electric car, citing such documentaries as ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ (here), and discussing the work of manufacturer Tesla Motors (here). Here is some additional info on this interesting field that I learned recently. After all, it would be nice to get away – at a reasonable price - from the [...]
The average rate of gas consumption of a particular make and model of car can be conveniently determined at this page. Based on the information there, the type of Ford Focus I currently drive has a rating of 9.2 L/100 km (31 mpg) in the city, and 6.8 L/100 km (42 mpg) on the highway.
As mentioned in one of the tips at this [...]
Here are a couple of interesting vehicles I’ve come across in the last while, posted for your viewing pleasure. I’m not implying that this area has more custom auto jobs done than other places (we seem to have the usual proportion of tricked-out Honda Civics found anyplace else), but some of them are slightly more unusual:
First [...]
While the previous demise of Sudbury’s former eclectic restaurant ‘100 Georges’ to be replaced with an uninspiring parking lot did cause some consternation in the area (as first covered at this website here, and then in its lamentful sequels, 2, 3, and 4), it in no way approaches the profiteering from parking spaces in skyrocketed real estate [...]
Recently, I wrote of the proposed underground tunnel whose intent is to connect Alaska with the eastern edge of Siberia (see map of locale here). Among the comments at the end of this article (read them here) were references to what would be likely the longest and most monotonous part of the now-driveable journey from [...]
A short while back, I read this article, which gave the interesting news that a collaborative plan was underway involving both Russia and the United States, to build a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. At a length of about 103 kilometers, this will be the longest tunnel in the world, linking the former Cold War enemies at Siberia and Alaska [...]
We all know Detroit, Michigan as the headquarters of the “Big Three” U.S. automakers. This is also made fairly clear in other ways; one look at the ubiquity of expressways on a map of its downtown (see here) shows how fixated on the car the city’s planners were (though believe it or not, it apparently could have been [...]
The sport utility vehicle, the profitable darling of so many auto manufacturers, has for a long time received the brunt of a great deal of criticism. Much of it is well-founded; to many, this car category represents the epitome of wasteful consumerism, a position that is difficult to disagree with when presented with obnoxiously large vehicles like GM’s Hummer. So, [...]
For many, it’s a pleasure to cruise down an open highway. Most of us would have few qualms about driving faster than we usually do, were the speed limit higher and/or the police not so seemingly omnipresent. Here in Ontario, it is never posted anywhere more than 100 km/h.
In Germany, home of the infamous Autobahns - as well as [...]