CORNER STORIES

I've been in Canada this past holiday season, and it's refreshing to see another country's car culture. For a place which is fairly similar to Australia in most ways, the difference in car culture, and especially during the winter, is a stark contrast. The winter here is very different to Adelaide. The days get shorter, the trees go brown, the mild summer weather turns into a harsh, unrelenting, cold. And perhaps the biggest difference, snow, ice, slush, everywhere. This calls for salt on the roads, something we thankfully never really deal with back in Australia. And this salt has some pretty dire consequences on cars. This combined with much laxer roadworthiness laws leads to some pretty crazy winter beaters  getting around. A common sight. Anyway, here's a couple spots.   A  cybertruck , I've seen about a half dozen of these things getting around. Despite the poor build quality which has been documented a lot, I don't hate this thing. It's ugly and stupid...

This will be long and lack any sort of direction, forgive me. This All Japan Day was far more relaxed for me, as I decided early on I wouldn't be making a video like last year: As a result I picked up fellow enthusiast/blog author Nick at about 10:30ish in the Vortex . Flying in from Canada at 4:00AM Nick somehow still had energy, and as we cruised down south we picked apart the in's & out's of the strange Subaru .   I did feel a touch guilty that it only received a garden hose spray-down & leaf blower dry off. Good enough for Nick's first impressions. Now from about here-on-out you are going to read the writings of someone who allowed his mind to wander and instincts dictate when to take a photo. In other words if you want a comprehensive run down of AJD , this is NOT it. Out the gate I enjoyed seeing not one but two triple-S datto Stanza's. I know the Stanza is a boring boxy sedan to most, but I'm a sucker for sports allure, and the SSS paint schemes...