Just went to the auto show here in my city and I couldn’t get over how a $60,000 (CAD) MSRP is just being normalized now. I mean, you don’t even get anything fancy for that. WTF?

When I was a lot younger and generally making a lot of questionable decisions, I once purposely tailgated a fully marked cop car. When he inevitably lit me up and pulled me over, from in front naturally, he basically asked me what my problem was and why I was driving so close. I told him he was going too slow, which…

I’m assuming they’re filming VinFast VinFurious and needed a fleet.

Neutral: I don’t know if an auto show constitutes a sighting “in the wild”. Officially I’m going to say no. But I did see a Koenigsegg Regera and a 2005 Spyker C8 side by side when I went last weekend to the Toronto auto show. I think they were there as a part of a Barrett-Jackson display but I’m not sure and didn’t…

Yup. Left the name out just because for most outside of Toronto, Yorkdale probably doesn’t mean anything.

Believe me when I say everything about the store’s layout and design, right down to the flooring, has a marketing purpose. I can’t tell you exactly what each purpose may be and how it’s supposed to work but ultimately the entire design is to entice you to buy more/spend more.

This is Toronto. Apparently there’s a showroom studio in a shopping mall here that caters to high end retailers. Sort of makes sense that it wouldn’t be a typical dealership. Not as though they have an extensive lineup to display. I don’t know if that’s where this particular owner sourced his car though.

True, at least on the build quality front. But the car owner said the luxury aspect came down to everything from ride, sound and the tactile feel of the materials and controls.

Challenger is your answer. I’ve had a V8 of one sort or another almost all my driving life (40 years). I own a late model Challenger now, purely as the sort of car that our reader is asking for, and nothing before has ever made me smile so consistently as this car. It does everything. It does it well. And mostly, it’s…

1st Gear: Guy in my building has a Lucid Air. Also a Tesla (clearly committed to the cause). I talked to him when I had the chance to ask him about the Air. He said he loves it. It’s much higher quality and luxury feel than the Tesla. Only issue he said was finding an appropriate charging station. Didn’t get a chance…

If you visualize that interior without the screens and light strips lit up, it couldn’t get any more unimpressive. And I’m being pretty generous about the light up stuff too. 

I agree with another poster that the service and quality is highly variable by location. There’s one in the small city where my outlaws live, and this location is probably patronized by almost 100 percent retired people. The quality is average but the service, like the speed of its dominant clientele, is very slow and…

Ah, originally from BC and wanted for, among other things, failure to comply. Yeah, we’ve kind of got a catch and release thing going on up here and it’s not limited to fishing.

Well, you’re not understanding the genius of problem solving that is using quarter round household moldings in commercial vehicle manufacturing. Consider that until now, no one has ever thought to send their engineers over to the local Home Depot to correct a manufacturing defect. Next you’re going to say they…

Mmmm... organized crime.

Wasn’t me but my father had a front brake caliper come off on the highway. Honestly I don’t remember anymore if it was still dangling or just gone completely but it made a hell of an unpleasant sound when it went AWOL. And I do still remember my dad being uncharacteristically concerned by the noise and the immediate…

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I do the collector/express shift as much as the setup will allow too. Westbound 401 from Pickering all the way into Toronto central is good for that.

Southern Ontario checking in. Left is right and right is left as far as the “fast” lane goes.

Sounds like there might be Waymo layoffs to come.