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Jim Bray, CFP Automotive Editor

Jim publishes TechnoFile Magazine. Jim is an affiliate with the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada and his careers have included journalist, technology retailer, video store pioneer, and syndicated columnist; he does a biweekly column on CBC Radio One's The Business Network.

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Most Recent Articles by Jim Bray, CFP Automotive Editor:


Ford’s Hot Taurus Sedan – It’s SHO Time!

Ford's new Taurus SHO is another welcome sign the company may be making a comeback, product-wise at least, avoiding the government takeover to which its domestic competitors succumbed. It deserves to sell. I spent a week in a loaded SHO (as opposed to "loaded in an SHO") and liked it a lot – much more than I thought I would. Even its exterior, which had seemed bland, even frumpy, in my brief glances previously, grew on me.
- Saturday, January 16, 2010

New 3D Technologies Try to Make Your HDTV Obsolete

Now that you've shelled out for a high definition TV and perhaps a Blu-ray player, the electronics industry and its Hollywood partners are working to make them obsolete already. And doesn't that just figure?
- Saturday, January 16, 2010




The TechnoFile Awards for 2009’s Most Interesting Technology

One of the great things about my job is that I get to play with a wide variety of things – from cars to computers to phones, home theater and assorted gadgets. It's the greatest job in the world, except for the Top Gear guys, and I'm lucky enough to get a perspective on a lot of differenter, toys.
- Saturday, December 19, 2009


Oppo Blu-ray Player Offers Superb Video, Audio

There are Blu-ray players that excel at playing high def movies, and others – like Sony's PlayStation 3 – that up the ante by adding gaming, networking, and the like.
- Saturday, December 12, 2009

ChiliPad Warms, Cools Bed From Below

It's the ChiliPad, which you could also think of as something like an electric blanket that also cools, but which does its work from under you rather than on top of you. If your bed is too cold, it'll warm it. If it's too warm, it'll cool it, the manufacturer says, and I can certainly vouch for the warming part.
- Saturday, December 5, 2009


Porsche Boxster and Cayman S PDK’s – “Pretty Darn Kool”!

How can you have a real sports car without a manual transmission? That's a question I've pondered much over the years, from my first three cars – MGB's all – through my Datsun 240Z and Toyota Supra, all of which were blessed with stick shifts.
- Monday, November 23, 2009




Car of the Year Trials a Runway Success

Close down a regional airport for a week, fill it up with the latest and supposedly greatest new cars available, add a heaping helping of car writers and what do you get?
- Sunday, November 8, 2009


Smart fortwo - Smart? Or Just Politically Correct?

Now, before I go on, I should advise owners of the smart fortwo to stop reading now or risk getting your feelings hurt – and isn't "feelings" what the "smart" is all about?
- Saturday, October 24, 2009

BlueAnt Devices Keep Your Hands on the Wheel

Bluetooth, as most of you know by now, is a wireless standard designed so that electronic devices can "talk" with each other. It's only good for short distances, apparently conceived of originally as a way to replace the RS232 cables that link computers and peripherals, but it has become much more than that.
- Saturday, October 24, 2009

Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla Still Good Choices for Economy Cars

What used to be both companies' entry level – and bread and butter – vehicles have grown up over the decades, getting bigger in every way and far more sophisticated. And that isn't a bad thing; technology advances. One thing that hasn't changed, however, is that endearing simplicity and ease of use that Honda once used in its commercials: "We Make It Simple".
- Saturday, October 17, 2009

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