You have to admire Mercedes-Benz for launching a city-sized, low-slung hatchback into an SUV-obsessed Canadian market, where light trucks for the first time topped 70 per cent of new vehicle sales...Read More
Not very mini, the Mini Clubman, especially if you happen to park it beside one of the thimble-sized Issigonis originals. Not Mini, either, when you park it beside one of the original reissues, or...Read More
The Toyota 4Runner TRD pro is so tall, 6 feet eight inches, that it doesn’t fit into a regular Toronto underground parking garage – or at least, the parking garage of the downtown condomin...Read More
The top end of the SUV market is getting to be a pretty crowded place. If you have $100,000 or more to spend on a four-wheeler, you’re spoiled for choice, with pretty much every premium manufact...Read More
The best advocates for a car or truck are often the ones who’ve been in a crash in one and survived – it’s impossible to form a stronger emotional bond with a vehicle than experiencing o...Read More
Whatever happened to the mid-size sedan? Long the best-selling class of vehicle in North America, in the last few years, SUVs have usurped their sedans’ sales supremacy, to the point where some ...Read More
The modern world’s performance cars really kind of divide themselves into two camps. There are the science experiments that pursue acceleration, grip, and top speed, designed to push the envelop...Read More
Turbo. These days, if you’re a car enthusiast, the word is shorthand for a lot of things: manufacturers chasing lower emissions and fuel consumption while delivering more power; a slug of easy-g...Read More
The seeds of my automotive passion were sown in the fall of 1989. I was 12 at the time, our family had just moved to Toronto from Calgary, and everything was new and exciting. Two very specific me...Read More