Test Drives

Don’t mess with success. Even in the fast-moving compact SUV segment, where new competitors arise from marketing meetings on a seemingly monthly basis to be introduced as yet another family-friendly blob on stilts, it's a risky move to make too many changes to a model that has been a stronger …

When the Chevrolet division launched this compact SUV a little more than two years ago, there was no shortage of naysayers. Back then, it wasn't sold in the United States and being a Canadian exclusive isn’t always an accurate gauge of success. The American manufacturer was, in some respects, blazing …

It's really easy to buy more truck than you actually need, but until recently it's been harder to do the opposite. A dearth of mid-size options, as compared to the full-size pickup spectrum, has had utility-facing customers facing the same seldom-updated Toyota and Nissan choices for the past decade or …

I couldn't tell which sound was louder when I revved the engine of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray: the cacophony of its two-stage exhaust system venting eight cylinders of spent fuel to the sky, or the wails of all of those second-hand sports car shoppers realizing that they aren't going …

In the 1990s when SUVs became fashionable, “the bigger, the better” was the philosophy adopted by many buyers, regardless of their actual needs. Nowadays, reason has won out and those huge mastodons have, for the most part, made way for much smaller vehicles. Gas prices, of course, have had a …

The Chevrolet Silverado is a huge profit center for General Motors, a best-selling full-size pickup that has been in production, in one form or another, for decades. Until 2014, however, the Silverado had fallen a bit off the pace, left behind by the innovations debuted by rivals from Ford and …

In the highly competitive compact car segment, GM has never been able to truly keep up with the Joneses. Keeping pace with the Japanese and Korean manufacturers that have dominated this class for years by offering vehicles that perfectly meet buyers’ needs is no easy task. GM’s models – the …

Chevrolet took a considerable step forward in performance and driving pleasure when it replaced the not-so-exciting Aveo with the Sonic in 2012. While the Aveo represented basic transportation for drivers on a budget, the Sonic adds a little bit of gusto and pizzazz to the formula. Subcompact hatchbacks have never …

How long has it been since General Motors has had a player in the diesel car game? If you said “30 years,” you’re both right and wrong. Chronologically, yes, that was the GM’s last foray into the realm of Rudolf Diesel’s alternative-fuel engine, but the reality is the domestic giant …

There was a time, not so long ago, when a car like the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 convertible would not have been allowed to exist. A recently as the past decade, a corporate culture that insisted on protecting the Corvette as the Bowtie brand's performance icon precluded building any form …