Test Drives

The leaves were already falling in the coastal mountains of British Columbia; fading the horizon from its traditionally lurid green to a mottled amalgam of yellows and browns with only occasional lively spurts of emerald marking the stalwart conifers. As suburban hunters wheeled their new camouflage-covered ATVs into the beds …

When test driving a vehicle, there are certain weeks when we can’t help but get noticed by neighbours and passers-by. It often happens when we’re driving a sports car or a luxury car, so no one would have predicted that a car bearing the Kia emblem would one day make …

Believe it or not, I can have fun driving just about anything. So when Nissan informed me that the next vehicle available for testing was their colossal NV2500 HD commercial van, I tried to take an optimistic attitude... I really did. But, walking up the broad white flanks of the …

With the exception of some hopeless forays into the luxury vehicle category in the 1970s and in the compact category in the 1980s, the Dodge Charger has always possessed aggressive lines and pleasant mechanics. The new 2011 edition is no different. Thus, for 2011, Dodge has revised the Charger’s aesthetics.

At the age of 8 or 9, going to the junkyard on a Saturday afternoon with my dad ranked amongst the best possible ways in which a day could be spent. This, of course, was back when going to an auto wrecker involved a pair of coveralls, a keen eye, …

When test driving a vehicle, an automobile journalist must check everything: from handling to performance to accessories, not to mention assessing said vehicle’s practicality and personality. Catch an automobile journalist on vacation, however, and you can kiss all that verification and evaluation good-bye! During my recent vacation, I didn’t evaluate …

It's a brand that's been patronized by everyone from Frank Sinatra to John Fitzgerald Kennedy to Elvis Presley, and yet it has suffered monumental struggles in its attempts to remain relevant: Lincoln. And you know what? It's deserved every last minute of the time it's spent with its head on …

At Nissan, the Z is most definitely the car with the most prestigious legacy. After all, it comes from a long line of sports cars, including the 240Z launched more than 40 years ago. The 370Z has been in the catalogue since 2009 when it succeeded the 350Z that came …

The legendary Mini’s renaissance in 2002 was an unmitigated success thanks to enormous revenues and its new owner’s – BMW – exceptional talent for design and engineering. Since the resounding success of the new Cooper and Cooper S, focus and a concerted effort has seemed to be lacking at this …

Dodge's old Caliber was a surprising automobile... surprising insofar that such a large company, with countless checks and balances, would ever see fit to release such a product onto the market. Stuffed with acres of some of the worst plastics created since 1983, powered by an anaemic engine and CVT …