Three years ago I was faced with a dilemma: visit my aging mom whom I hadn’t seen in about a year because she lives far away, or spend a few hours on a track with Audi’s then-new S5 Coupe. ...
Being a niche player in the grand panorama of the automotive industry and discounting its well-deserved reputation for marching to a somewhat different beat than the mainstream automakers, it’s ...
Modesty — in pure acquisitional terms — is not something we humans come by easily. Even we Canadians, supposedly more pragmatic and unpretentious than our neighbours to the south, have been...
Truth be told, I never was much of a fan of the Porsche Boxster. It just seemed to lack any real sense of substance. Sure, it handled like the Dickens, as was witnessed when I drove the length of the ...
Snow has already hit the mountains of Austria. The roads near Graz are wet, they wind up and down with a mix of tight hairpins and fast sweepers, and ice is sometimes present in shaded corners through...
First, the good news. Plunking the Volkswagen Group’s ubiquitous 2.0-litre turbocharged four into the engine bay of large luxury sedan does little to blunt the performance of this gem of an engine...
It’s been four years since we first saw it at the Tokyo Motor Show as the Toyota FT-86 concept. But Toyota’s back-to-basics sports car — sold around the world as the GT-86 and in North...
OK, despite its GT moniker, Hyundai’s new Elantra hatchback lacks the requisite boosted motor — turbocharged, supercharged or over-sized — to give the car the necessary chops to be called...
A three-week road trip afforded me the opportunity to really experience the 2013 Acura ILX Hybrid, Honda's premium label's newest and most fuel-efficient entry-level vehicle.