Take the mid-fall colours of southern Ontario, add a world class racing facility with gobs of heritage, mix in about 35 of the newest vehicles available in Canada and you have the recipe for an exciting Canadian Car of the Year 2017 TestFest. It's an annual affair mounted under the auspices of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), an intensive few days in which car writers from across Canada converge on Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (nee Mosport) to wring the latest wheels out in what amounts to glorified test drives that give us a decent first impression of what's coming for the next automotive year. It's also a real blast, especially if your advanced driving courses are up to date, in which case you get to take the wildest of the wheels onto the facility's Driver's Development Track. I, thanks to a course earlier this year courtesy of Mercedes Benz, was current, and positively salivating at the chance to take cars like the new Porsche 911, Mercedes C coupe AMG and BMW M2 onto the tight twisties of the DDT. And I wasn't disappointed. They have real drivers on hand as well, to ensure you don't do something stupid with the high end iron, and their tips came in really handy.

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