Test Drives

BMW invited journalists to attend the i3 press drive event in Los Angeles one day prior to the opening of the L.A. Auto Show. I was excited to learn I’d be able to participate, never having driven an electric vehicle. The i3 - and quite frankly the entire i series …

The old man dressed in red and white will soon be doing his annual delivery of gifts to kids around the world who made a point of being nice this year. How does he do it? Nobody really knows. But the fact that he does it is the important part.

In the highly competitive compact car segment, GM has never been able to truly keep up with the Joneses. Keeping pace with the Japanese and Korean manufacturers that have dominated this class for years by offering vehicles that perfectly meet buyers’ needs is no easy task. GM’s models – the …

Sometimes the divine and the absurd converge in an absolutely perfect combination that defies conventional description. Such is the case with the 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged, an enormous sport-utility vehicle that manages to deliver both outstanding luxury along with the kind of unstoppable off-road attitude that is rarely …

The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter has been available in North America since 2001. Sold initially as a Freightliner (a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz) product, then as a Mercedes-Benz product and finally as a Dodge during the Daimler-Chrysler fusion, this big van returned to the Mercedes-Benz fold after the bankruptcy of Chrysler and the …

Disappointment is one of the most cutting of human emotions. Nothing can ever fall so far in our estimation than that which we have built up to a dizzying height via our own expectations. The 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA250 is a car that I really, truly, wanted to like, and a …

The Jaguar line-up includes just four models: the brand new F-Type, the sumptuous XF and XJ sedans, and the sporty XK. The latter first appeared on the market in 2007, which makes eight years now. Eight years in the life of a car is like 80 human years. But life …

True driver's cars are rare on the ground, especially in our modern era of electronic nannies, leaden luxury features, and a sharper focus on fuel economy. It's this scarcity that makes such an outstanding vehicle like the all-new 2014 Porsche Cayman stick out from the rest of the pack, even …

They might not be glamorous, but they sure are useful. I'm referring, of course, to the new breed of compact cargo vans that have washed up on Canadian shores over the course of the past couple of years. The 2013 Nissan NV200 is a shining example of their ilk, a …

It was a day of exceptional premiers at the St-Eustache Autodrome. On that track, no one had ever driven these two versions of the McLaren MP4-12C, a superb carbon-fibre sports car that took off in hot pursuit of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and other brands nearly two years ago. Before …