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It takes courage to go against the grain, and when it comes to the automotive business it requires even more guts to spend a substantial amount of money in the process. After decades of well-heeled customers being told how much they should spend to achieve vehicular nirvana, Kia has dared …

When Porsche builds a series of models, it does so very carefully. Kind of like building a house. Every time one is fully revamped, the Zuffenhausen brand first introduces the regular model, which acts as the foundation of the structure. Next comes a more powerful S version with extra equipment.

Seemingly, you’d have to be more than a little crazy to hurtle a two-ton SUV up and down a 60 kilometre Yukon mountain mining road so steep that there’s simply nowhere to even attach a guard rail. And yet I found myself doing exactly that this past week behind the …

What would you say to rising before the sun and hopping on a six-hour flight to the other side of the continent just to do two laps in a car? If you’re anything like us, you’d be out of bed at 2 a.m. and fly for twice as long if …

In 2008, Mitsubishi’s new and improved Lancer exploded onto the compact sedan scene. Beautiful, cocky and sporty, we swooned before its aggressive front grille that made it seem more shark than car. The tail end was fabulous and the passenger compartment, despite its dark grey, very dark grey, charcoal grey …

When the new Toyota Rav4 launched last year, it failed to break new technological ground and people found its exterior pretty conventional. And yet, it managed to be one of the best-selling vehicles in the compact SUV category. When it came time to refresh the Rav4, Toyota brass thought it …

There was once a time when all-wheel drive convertibles were the unicorns of the automotive industry, much in the same way that manual transmission station wagons are today. The 2014 BMW 428i xDrive cabriolet, however, is one of a growing chorus of four-wheel-enabled drop-tops that pleasantly suggest to luxury shoppers …