Test Drives

For most of us, automotive passion isn't a calculus derived from crunching horsepower numbers, acceleration figures, and braking distances. It's the intangibles - the way the tailpipes burble and roar through a tunnel, the glint of the sun off the cowl on a country road, the smell of unburned hydrocarbons …

The Land Rover name has long promised adventure, but for 2015 the largely-new Discovery Sport entry-level SUV delivers something else. Certainly, much of the go-anywhere attitude associated with the British brand is still baked-in to the Discovery Sport's DNA - which is borrowed, in large part, from the Range Rover …

Mont-Saint-Hilaire, September 8, 2015 — On September 12th, you’re invited to experience an automotive dream come true at the ICAR Circuit in Mirabel. Le Guide de l’auto is organizing this extraordinary event to celebrate its 50th anniversary. New partners have joined our long list of sponsors to make this day …

Driving the redesigned 2016 Volvo XC90 is a lot like going to your high school reunion and discovering that the quiet kid at the back of the room that no one really took the time to get to know is now a combination fashion model/billionaire industrialist whose helicopter is parked …

Ever since Nissan released the third-gen Maxima in 1988, they’ve been boasting about their four-door sports car. They even created a special name for it: the 4DSC (4 Door Sports Car). In the years that followed, the Japanese automaker tried to convince buyers that its full-size sedan was actually a …

We’ve been infatuated with the BMW i8 ever since it appeared on the cover of the 2012 edition of our French-language publication, Le Guide de l’auto . Since then, we’ve been chomping at the bit to drive it, and when a test drive was recently confirmed, we were positively giddy.

There's a unique feature offered with the 2015 Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 that you won't find documented anywhere in the owner's manual. If you ask about it at the dealership, you might get a wry smile from a sales advisor, but they will neither confirm nor deny its existence. I …

Sometimes distance can change your perspective. When I initially drove the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel back when it was released in 2014, I was amazed at how adeptly Chrysler had been able to pair real-world fuel efficiency with the kind of torque and practicality that full-size truck owners demand. It was …

“That’s a Lincoln?” That’s what a perfect stranger exclaimed when I told him the make of the sexy sedan I was test driving. The man then explained that his dad had owned several Lincolns, but he’d always preferred BMWs. In his view, Lincolns were for old-timers. And that’s precisely the …

After years of hearing customers yell out 'bigger, bigger, bigger!' in the SUV showroom, the new mantra seems to be 'let's get small.' How else to explain the sudden surge in the number of tiny crossover utility vehicles like the 2015 Audi Q3? It seems like each passing week brings …