Test Drives

There’s something to be said for under-promising and over-delivering on one’s goals; just ask Stephen Harper… or any one of the Vancouver Canucks, for that matter. People are sadistic individuals (again, reference Vancouver) just looking for a way to get a leg up on their fellow man by any means …

I can remember it like it was yesterday; it’s flat green paint looking distinctly haggard in the gleaming sun, the creased front fender leeching the rainbow hues of iron oxide down its flanks. Inside, the interior appeared to be unchanged since its creation in 1970, the familiar four speed shifter …

Lately, some of you might have caught sight of the single greatest thing to happen to television since the A-Team came off the air: AMC’s The Walking Dead. Based upon the equally awesome comic book series penned by genius Robert Kirkman, the television show takes the zombie apocalypse trope into …

Enough with the whispers and off-the-record remarks from engineers. We finally had the chance to drive a production-model 2011 Chevrolet Volt... well, almost. Let’s say that the version we tried is very close to what will soon be sold to American consumers. And, you guessed it, Canadians will have to …

When I turned 16, I wanted nothing more than a proper, honest-to-goodness muscle car. But, having last been produced decades earlier, they weren’t exactly populous in the municipality of Richmond, BC. Flipping through the local Buy & Sell would reveal just a few examples of decent muscle cars, and the …

The Chevrolet Camaro is one of the most spectacular cars for sale this year. In fact, GM has just revamped this legendary model, adapting it to modern preferences. And contrary to what some people say, this vehicle was not brought back to save what used to be the world’s number-one …

While the Ford Mustang has always been very popular and Chrysler was about to launch its superb Dodge Challenger a few years ago, the engineers and designers at GM had to bust their humps to find a fast and economical alternative. It wasn’t enough to simply pull out the previously …

General Motors’ experience with Hybrid drivetrains has been, in a word, interesting. While the modern two-mode hybrid system found in the full-size SUV and truck line is easily equal to or better than every hybrid system on the market today, the General’s first attempt at marrying electric motors with gasoline …

Unwisely, GM has all too often gotten caught up in the game of offering three or four similar models sold under different banners. Case in point, the recent Uplander/Montana SV6/Relay/Teraza foursome of minivans, turned out to be a miserable failure. Despite repeating this mistake over and over again, this year …

There are innumerable ideas on how to quell the coming fuel crisis; some feel we need to explore new hydrogen technologies, some think gas/electric hybrids are the way to go, and some realize that automotive fuel consumption is a proverbial drop in an oily bucket as compared to international shipping, …