Car FYI

  My personal experience playing Sony's Gran Turismo 7 has involved about a hour a day earning wins and vehicles or the credit to purchase in-game vehicles. With over 500 vehicles available in the auto racing simulation, it's been a pleasure to have the virtual sense of driving a whole array of cars. High performance monsters such as the LaFerrari and the Pagani Zonda-R, purpose-built racers such as the McLaren MP4/4 Formula 1 car and the Sauber Mercedes C9 or wild concept cars such as the Renault Espace F1 or the Chevrolet Corvette CX have been a few cars brought under my control through a Sony Playstation controller. Besides exploring the thrill of speed in the virtual world, I've found Gran Turismo 7 to provide an engaging opportunity to test my somewhat middling artistic skills. The customization program within the game isn't perfect but it provided the right amount of challenge and reward when working on a creation. After some time learning the tools and limitati...

For the first time in more than seven years, I was drawn to a movie theatre this weekend for what may be an obvious reason when I inform you that my last cinema experience was attending the documentary Senna in Toronto. In 2019, my film-going motivation was based on the big screen adaptation of the great American auto racing story behind Ford’s reign at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the latter part of the 1960s. Ford v Ferrari is a docudrama with the polish of a big Hollywood production that admittedly both excited and concerned me prior to the positive word of mouth after the Toronto International Film Festival debut since sport-related movies are a hit or miss affair. The production values of the Ron Howard movie Rush has inspired confidence that auto racing can be depicted honourably on the big screen. Much like the Ford GT40 race car that went on to climatic greatness on the race track in 1966 as well as on film screens today, the right balance of parts and components make Ford v...