Tests and Features

The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada, or AJAC, will be holding their yearly CCOTY testing next week at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Clarington, Ontario. There will be eight categories this year, and the most interesting one for Canadian car shoppers is undoubtedly the Best New Small Car Category.

Hyundai got a jump on 2017 by releasing a few of those model-year vehicles ahead of most automakers. One of those is the highly popular Santa Fe SUV, and we got our hands on its XL Limited trim version for a test drive. The 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe XL can …

I vividly remember when the Hyundai Santa Fe first hit Canadian dealerships. It was the spring of 2000, and my parents were shopping for a new family hauler to replace their minivan. The requirements were simple: It had to be roomy enough for a family of four and able to …

For years, the Honda Civic has been Canada’s top-selling vehicle, but the Hyundai Elantra is hot on its heels. In fact, the Korean car very nearly stole the first-place title two years ago. It’s easy to understand why crowning the category is so important to the Elantra. In response to …

If you still doubt about the importance of the Elantra in Hyundai’s product portfolio, know that it’s not only their best-selling vehicle, but has been the second best-selling car in Canada for a few years now, right behind the Honda Civic. No wonder the Korean brand is giving this model …

In the world of affordable hatchbacks, the Hyundai Veloster is the beret-wearing, chain-smoking beatnik who's brave enough to live life at 90-degree angles to what's currently trendy. "Look at me with my three doors," it seems to say, flaunting its asymmetry as a form of slam poetry written in steel …

As good as the previous-generation gas-only Hyundai Sonata was, the Hybrid model simply couldn't match it. Somehow, the decision to plug an electric motor in place of the torque converter in the four-cylinder Sonata's six-speed autobox created a sedan that was less than the sum of its parts: the Hyundai …