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Following an intensive week of testing at the end of October, the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada announced its Best New Vehicle awards for 2017, split into eight distinct categories. A photo-finish ending in all cases, based on the subjective evaluation of more than 60 Canadian journalists, gathered at the …

Rolls-Royce offers a selection of 44,000 colours on their models, yet the big news this year for the Ghost sedan and the Wraith coupe is the addition of a variant that emphasises none of them. Remember, black is not a colour, but the absence of light. The 2017 Rolls-Royce Ghost …

Automakers are continually adding gears into their automatic transmissions for the sake of fuel economy, and that obviously includes General Motors. The 2017 Chevrolet Malibu will be their first model equipped with a new nine-speed automatic transmission. The latter will be matched to the turbocharged, 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine that, up …

The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) today unveiled its annual list of the ten vehicles most frequently stolen in Quebec. Once again, luxury sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are the first choice among criminals. With the exception of BMW's 335xi–which is considered a luxury car—IBC's Top 10 clearly demonstrates that for …

With the growing interest in electric cars, you might think that this type of technology is something new. After all, electric vehicles have only been made possible by recent advances in the fields of computers and batteries, right? Wrong! Miniature electric motors made their first appearances in the early 1800s, …

An all-new Fiesta will soon appear on our market, and the European version has just been presented during a Ford event in Cologne, Germany. Over there, the Fiesta is offered in three-door and five-door hatchback body styles, while in North America, we get the five-door as well as a four-door …

The English brand has been working on a utility vehicle—their first ever—for more than a year now, and it has just published a couple of teaser shots of this upcoming luxury mastodon. Sure, the vehicle is wrapped in camouflage that hides the bodywork’s lines and creases, but we can clearly …

The second generation of the popular CX-5 was just unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but Mazda is already starting its production. The first assembled units of the 2017 Mazda CX-5 will be sold in Japan starting next February, while those for other markets, including Canada, will follow soon …

Early in 2017, the Swedish police force will take delivery of an all-new patrol car, the 2017 Volvo V90 wagon. According to the manufacturer, their V90 not only passed the rigorous driving tests conducted by Swedish police, but it obtained the highest rating to date. Since police cars are also …

Following its unveiling at the Los Angeles Auto Show earlier this month, the 2017 Nissan Versa Note will be available in Canada at a starting price of $14,498 before freight and delivery charges of $1,600. That’s for a base-trim Versa Note 1.6 S with a five-speed manual transmission, air conditioning …