DfTC – 2014 BMW X5 xDrive35i
As always, a professional driver briefs our group on the point of our impending adventure. "Push the car until you feel it just slightly start to understeer and then let the systems do their thing," he says.
Alrighty then.
So you head out for your first run in the X5 M Sport. To say that this truck is confidence-inspiring is an understatement, despite both being in a lake and being an SUV.
Having gradually built up some very nice speed in the slalom, you charge the roundabout only having lifted off – no brakes applied.
The X5 seems to be holding on as you steer it through...
BMW Drive for Team Canada
Imagine my shock waking up to a torrential downpour – after a month of dry, sunny weather – on the morning of BMW's track driving event...
Remember how everybody was always excited to have school cancelled due to bad weather? Try telling your fourth-grade self that one day, you wouldn't want that to happen.
With no cancellation notice in my inbox, I
Review: 2013 VW Jetta Turbo Hybrid
After having tried Ford's hybrid models, I've concluded that regular hybrids are compromises, different from conventional cars in all the wrong ways.
Plug-in hybrids, though, surprised me in that they actually drove well. So when I was given the keys to a VW Jetta Turbo Hybrid – which isn't a plug-in – I fully expected bad history to repeat itself.
However, taking this Jetta through an autocross course revealed that the world's gasoline-electrics have another surprise up their collective sleeve...
Review: 2014 Jeep Patriot 4x4
The diamond-water paradox (or, the paradox of value) challenges how something essential to survival like water is much, much cheaper than something decorative, like diamonds.
This thought is rooted in the economic theory of value, specifically value in use: something that's more useful overall should therefore command a higher price than something that's less so.
Making it official
I realized that I completely forgot to tell an amusing chunk of the Fića's arrival story! Let's hit the rewind button and return to December 2010, when the Fića's ship had just docked...
Until you
However, no progress could be made before customs did an inspection of my car and its container. This being the government, the moment they decide to do the inspection is as predictable as a coked-up squirrel...
Nothing new
Well, not exactly. The part above is brand-new, but the ensuing story is the ghost of
It seemed too optimistic to expect that the existing column stalk assembly could be repaired. The sixth time is most definitely not a charm...
At this point, it's also impossible to continue the repairs without a working assembly.
Naturally, I went online to the usual place and ordered a new one that's compatible with my generation of Fića. It was in my hands a week later, as promised. So far, so good, then? Nothing like what's befallen my Fića and I time and time again?
Well, that's what I thought – until I opened the box.
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