A few publications were invited to meet Andrea Baldi, CEO of Lamborghini America, while he was in town. We didn't have much time, so I eschewed the usual sycophantic stuff and got straight to what the readers of ViCARious Magazine really want to know.

From a series on AutoTrader wherein the author's head and heart fight over which useful city ride to purchase. What will he choose? The insanely fun Mazda3 Sport or the insanely fun Mini Cooper.

Daily XY, the quotidian online magazine designed to make young Canadian guys a touch cooler, was bought after 8 years in biz and renamed Pursuit. I continued writing for it, earning hundreds of dollars a year! Driving and writing about new cars whenever I needed them was a lovely fringe benefit. Here's one of the only soberish and dignified pieces I ever wrote for it.

It opens and maintains an extended lampooning of millennials before finally getting to the car nearly a dozen paragraphs in. Chevy's PR people appropriately made a game of the test-drive day with 'adulting' activities like shopping at that Swedish furniture place to demonstrate how roomy the trunk is.

From a series of auto reviews that only I found amusing: fancy rides for stocking up the liquor cabinet. Many reviews take place in exotic destinations. Most people drive from A to B day to day with, perhaps, a stop at their local boozerie.

Winner of the 2020 AJAC Award for Environmental Journalism, this piece documents the importance and often troublesome issues surrounding electric vehicles during the 2019 iteration of AJAC's annual enviro-event, EcoRun. Little did we know that this would be our last before the pandemic. The award was presented online in front of finger snapping thumbnail attendees.

An award-winner: This relates a troublesome test drive, posing the question no one else ever dared to ask: is the SmartCar truly the perfect vehicle for the urban animal? The subhead acknowledges "With reluctant field research and content input by Orson Bochenek". The story's mostly about a Sunday morning drive across the spine of downtown Toronto to a dog beach in this two-seater. The second seat's occupied by a nervous canine passenger.

This piece took second place in the 2017 AJAC* Awards for Best Feature Article. Over the previous winter holidays, I'd briefly worked as an undercover Uber driver — as the title cryptically suggests. It's not an easy life. Like some 4-star review, the sting of second place was softened by also winning second for 2017 Automotive Writer of the Year, an honour for that year's entire body of work.

Welcome to a celebration of Canada's favourite party HQ during its most beloved annual festival, Le Grand Prix. We'll take behind the scenes to the paddock over several hours, and far from a naked reveller walking home full monty at 6am.

This is a breakdown (double entendre ‘intendred’) of how the city and province regulate the flow of traffic. It features an in-depth interview with media and traffic legend, Cam Woolley, formerly of the Ontario Provincial Police.

Most auto journalists live in the country or suburbs so they can have a bigger garage. (The younger ones live in the parents’ basement. Thees no get-reech-kweek scam.) My column’s been called The Urban Driver and I tend to review autos from a frustrated city dweller’s POV. My misery is your entertainment.

I was at the American launch on Clint Eastwood’s golf course (about a week before he interviewed the chair) but wrote this piece 6 weeks later, following the Canadian launch. Click to read:

This article was the first I was commissioned upon returning to Canada, after a dream near-year in Italy. It’s about distracted driving; what I learned was utterly horrifying but I tried to put as much smile (and honesty) into the article as possible