Ambitious But Rubbish

I’m not quite sure how I’d managed to miss this headline before, but I have to say it’s absolutely brilliant. It’s the sort of thing I wish I could come up with most of the time…

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Apparently Jacques Villeneuve may be coming back to Formula 1 in 2011… with his own team. He’s put in an application, and reportedly his entry’s finances have been reviewed by the FIA and found to be in order — then again the same body thought that Campos and USF1 were doing A-OK, so I’m not [...]

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After the events of the weekend there was bound to be clarifications and other developments coming out this week. For one thing, Charlie Whiting revealed that Ferrari had been told to let Kubica pass Alonso back almost immediately after the passing incident. The team was advised to do so twice more, but they failed to [...]

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If you thought that the 2009 F1 season was full of off-track surprises, you’ll be glad to know that the excitement is continuing into the postseason. Among the things that have been announced this week: Having been BrawnGP for less than a year, the team formerly known as Honda/BAR/Tyrrell/etc. has been taken over by Mercedes [...]

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Tonight’s show started with two hot hatchbacks — the Focus RS and the Renault Megane R26R — and entertaining as it was I couldn’t help but think, where are the hot hatches in North America? I won’t ask where the Megane is — Renault hasn’t been in North America since the 80s. But what’s Ford’s [...]

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If you’re from Montreal and have this vague suspicion that gas prices go up just about every weekend, you’re not alone. The CAA thinks so too, and they’re compiling statistics that prove the practice in spite of industry denials. Frankly the whole business smells of illegal collusion and price-fixing, and should be investigated. No matter, [...]

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Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you’re in Montreal and fancy seeing the expensive, touristic area of Mont-Tremblant. Naturally you’d just take the 15 North and keep going until the exit to Montée Ryan, which leads to the village. I mean, it’s a no-brainer, right? Well, not exactly. Not if you actually like [...]

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This is a copy of a letter to the editor I sent to the Montreal Gazette this morning. Hello there. I, like thousands of others, rely on Montreal roads to get to work and back, and I have a few question and comments to people who decide what gets done when, and also those who [...]

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After months of painstaking research and many a night in the past 3 weeks spent trying to make up my damn mind, I finally took my decision, and I’m now an Audi A4 Quattro owner. This was a bit of an unexpected result, when I think back on the torturous process that really started late [...]

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Here’s an interesting little comparison which is just about all I can think about until Wednesday morning. In the market for a new car I’ve narrowed things down to 2 candidates: an Audi A4 Quattro and a BMW 325i. They’re both 2006s, both have similar mileage, both have the sport and premium packages, a manual [...]

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