Test Drives

The Ford Fiesta is a well-thought city car: it is fuel-efficient and light enough to be fun to drive around town. Starting at $12,978, it’s also quite the bargain if you don’t want to go broke buying a car. At the top of the Fiesta range sits the ST, sold …

Darkness has fallen, and the drag strip is illuminated only by a series of yellowed overhead lamps, their faint illumination obscured by the legions of mosquitoes and moths they've attracted with their false promise of shelter. I'm in the driver's seat of a 2015 Ford Mustang GT with barely 5,000 …

If you can't afford a boat, then Prince Edward Island's rural character almost cries out to be seen from behind the wheel of a pickup truck, as its small villages, rocky coastline, and bright red mud provide the perfect complement to the preferred ride of country folk across the country.

The 2015 Mitsubishi RVR is the perfect demonstration of the effects of the incredible depth available to buyers shopping for a compact crossover. An explosion of options aimed at young families seeking extra cargo space, rural dwellers coping with treacherous winter snowfalls, and individuals whose lifestyles simply can't be compressed …

It was created in America, but the 2015 Jeep Renegade is built in Italy alongside the also-new 2016 Fiat 500X crossover . A sin for a typically all-American brand perhaps, but most Renegade buyers probably won’t even realize it, so it I guess it doesn’t really matter. Let’s hope its …

In the years I have enjoyed the privilege of testing cars and writing about my findings, I think I have seen just about everything. One of the people I rely on most is my girlfriend, precisely because she is no expert. In fact, she can barely tell one make from …

In many ways, the 2015 Audi RS 5 represents the last of a very specific breed of high performance car. I'm not saying that German luxury sports coupes are about to do the Cretaceous-Tertiary shuffle off of this mortal coil. Far from it. Instead, I'm talking about the philosophy that …

When Honda launched Acura in 1986, it wanted to offer North American drivers a more high-end alternative. Back then, buyers in our market didn’t think of the Japanese manufacturer as a maker of luxury products, so it made sense to create a separate division. Acura initially selected models from Honda …

Life as a sub-compact isn’t always a bowl of cherries. Their primary use, small size and mandatory low price amount to a big challenge for manufacturers, as it’s hard to hit all these targets and still come up with something that’s inspiring and fun to drive. But then again, buyers …

The 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Shaker is the answer to the question 'what if I want to drive a car like the Hellcat, but I also don't want to die?' If you've been put off by the awesome responsibility that comes with the Challenger SRT Hellcat's 707 horsepower, …