Test Drives

When the Flex first broke on to the scene in 2008, I recall sitting at the press junket in Santa Monica and thinking to myself that although the vehicle may have made all the sense in the world, I just couldn't come to terms with the name. Billed (at least …

As automobile journalists, we get the chance to drive almost everything on the road. After a few years, going from a smart to a Porsche or from a Ford F150 to a Toyota Corolla loses its lustre. However, when I recently got behind the wheel of a Lincoln Navigator, I …

In 2004, then-DaimlerChrysler found themselves on some seriously infirm footing. With a stale lineup of tepid automobiles that ranged from the awful PT Cruiser to the languid rental special Sebring, Chrysler once again found themselves saddled with a lineup bereft of competitive vehicles, and was instead a brand buoyed aloft …

Hyundai has come a long way since it arrived in Canada. Not only are its products on the verge of becoming the benchmark in certain segments, but the automaker has also managed to radically transform its image, leaving behind its humble beginnings as a manufacturer of inexpensive but poor quality …

Not so long ago, while you could get a compact car for an attractive price, it often lacked style, conveniences, luxury and gadgets. Things have been different for several years now and certain manufacturers – like Kia, for example – have forced the market to adjust. The new Rio proves …

The BMW 3 Series is the Munich-based manufacturer’s bread and butter. It’s offered in a wide range of configurations (sedan, wagon, coupe and cabriolet) and even the most basic of the various 3’s is desirable. Yes, the equipment level isn’t the greatest and the engine isn’t very powerful, but the …

Few markets are quite as strange as that of the heavy duty pickup truck. Occupied in equal proportion out here in BC by those that would drive their truck with grease-laden hands from job site to job site where it'd be beaten upon by heavy loads and wayward tools, and …

When I was a child, I remember going to a junkyard with my father and seeing the burned out carcass of a Fiat 500 heaped upon a pile of similarly decommissioned vehicles. As a vehicle that I'd yet to see in any other condition, I eagerly went home and flipped …

$208,925: That’s the amount appears on the recently test driven Porsche Panamera Turbo S’s specs sheet. For a car that always seems to be ready for lift-off, it seems appropriate that its price should be stratospheric. As if the 500-hp Panamera Turbo wasn’t powerful enough, the letter S added to …

If I asked you what car represents the epitome of pleasure, what would your answer be? Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Lotus? All good choices. But there are other, much more accessible cars that bring practically immediate euphoria. There’s the Mazda MX-5, of course, the Golf GTI and for a little while …