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Eschew The New Hyundai Accent: The 6 Best USED Cars Under $15k
As a fan of CarEnvy.ca, your tastes run into the more eccentric, fun, and obscure realms of automobilia. You’re also very smart with your money. In short, you’re pretty amazing. Almost as amazing as...
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Balance, Passion, and the Everyman
by Peter Dushenski The firm house lingers, though averse to square With the new city street it has to wear A number in. But what about the brook That held the house as in an elbow-crook? I ask as one...
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BMW M550d vs. MyFord Touch 2.0: Battle For Worst Name Ever
By Peter Dushenski BMW is famous for many things. The tagline “Ultimate Driving Machine”, its compact luxury car that wins every comparo it enters, and the inorganic X6 are but a few. But its...
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BMW M550d vs. MyFord Touch 2.0 Part Two: Taking Things Way Too Literally
By Peter Dushenski On Friday I talked about two of the most egregious offenses to naming in recent automotive history, MyFord Touch 2.0 and the BMW M550d, so for this morning’s Philosophy of Driving,...
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BMW and Toyota Are Boring. Or How I Got Banned From Their Press Fleets.
by Peter Dushenski I’m banned! I dared to take risks. I dared to have a different perspective. I dared to challenge the convention of what a car review should tell you. And now BMW and Toyota have...
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Hey Car Companies, What About The Old Fogeys?
By Peter Dushenski @carenvy Upwardly mobile. Trendy. Hip. Urban. Chic. Unconventional. Oy vey! Every press release you read these days, at least those in the car industry, uses this nauseating...
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Think All Press Cars Are Ringers? Think Again
by Peter Dushenski @carenvy Auto journalism is unique in the world of journalism at large. Adventure journalists travel to foreign lands in search of the quaintest cafés and sandiest beaches,...
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Travel Diary: Over The Mountains And Through The Woods
by David Little @dlittle21 My inattention was pulled upwards. Across the tracks at the Trento, Italy train station, two black eyes locked into mine. She peered for three seconds longer than it is...
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Yom Kippur at the Paris Motor Show 2012
Today is “The Day” i.e. The Day of Atonement on the Jewish Calendar. There’s no holier day for The Chosen People. It’s also the first live day of coverage for journalists at the 2012 Paris Motor Show,...
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Stop Forecasting And Start Dreaming
Follow @carenvy By Peter Dushenski Forecasts are rational, useful, and necessary. Right? Whether it’s 2013 US car sales forecasts made by Edmunds, Audi’s ambitious sales forecasts, population...
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Hello Fiat, Goodbye fiat!
Depending on the capitalization, the term “Fiat/fiat” can mean many things. In Latin, “fiat” is a commandment from on high meaning “it shall be”. It’s also what Zeus yells before triumphantly flushing...
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Eschew The New Hyundai Accent: The 6 Best USED Cars Under $15k
As a fan of CarEnvy.ca, your tastes run into the more eccentric, fun, and obscure realms of automobilia. You’re also very smart with your money. In short, you’re pretty amazing. Almost as amazing as...
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Are Russians Really That Bad at Driving?
CarEnvy’s resident Russian explains why Russia generates so many car crash videos. Typical dashcam. Image credit: www.av-tribune.ru By Artem Barsukov Russia has always been famous around the world for...
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Part I: What’s More Precious Than Platinum – Gold or bitcoin?
Follow @carenvy by Peter Dushenski Since the Neolithic Revolution some 10,000 years ago, when humans started organizing into larger and more agricultural societies, there have been “haves” and...
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Part II: What’s More Precious Than Platinum – Technology or Muscle Cars?
Follow @carenvy by Peter Dushenski [Read Part I here] So what’s the cure for isolation? Go-karting! I hadn’t been in a go-kart since I was in my early teens, so when a local Ford dealer invited me to...
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The 5 Books (And 1 Article) That Shaped My Thinking In 2013
by Peter Dushenski As you may have noticed, there weren’t a ton of new articles on CarEnvy.ca in 2013. Not because I wasn’t thinking about cars, but because I read over 60 books, listened to hundreds...
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Reprogramming Making For A More Transparent World
by Peter Dushenski As I kid, I was a complete Legomaniac. I rushed home from school to play Lego, I bought Lego with every dollar I earned after a good report card, and I even won a few Lego...
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Fiat 500 vs. Honda CR-Z: Imagining Replacements for our Protege5
Let’s put our special hats on – y’know, the ones with the ostrich feathers and Swarovksi sparkles all dipped in yellow gold – and play “what if”. Car enthusiasts play this game with alarming...
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We Believe in Cars. So Do You. That’s Why We’re Here.
We aren’t the majority. We don’t have teeming throngs fillings squares and city centres. We don’t have placards and signs and hashtags devoted to our cause. Our ideals haven’t spread through the...
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Starting a Car Company and Turning A Profit: Tesla, Fisker, and Porsche’s...
Getting started is always the toughest part. It’s pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. Putting your head down and powering through. Whether it’s starting a new job, a new workout routine, living in...
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