Tag Archives: autos

You know you’ve got a successful product in your portfolio when it’s been around for multiple decades. In the case of the Ford Explorer, it’s celebrating its 30^th birthday next year.

With the brand new,...

Despite the fact that I’ve been driven hundreds of vehicles and logged thousands of kilometers behind the wheel, it’s always a bit shocking when I come across a vehicle that I’ve never driven before.

Such is true with...

Often times car manufactures come up with questionable names for their vehicles. For instance, why would AMC think that Gremlin would make a good name? Likewise, who wants to admit to driving a Probe? Ford apparently saw no issue with it....

“Take the Cherokee,” I texted back to my friend.

She was in the process of playing the rental car lottery. She had originally chosen a compact car when she reserved it online, but after getting to the rental agency, she was...

Usually it’s a performance laden muscle car, a $100,000 German luxury sedan or a spritely roadster.

But this time it was a Ford Ranger.

I am of course referring to the amount of attention I sometimes get from the press...

This is more like it.

When it comes to the new Infiniti QX50, the new styling direction is a smash hit to my eyes.

That said, literally any style change would have been an improvement over the previous generation QX50, which...

My fiancee and I are well acquainted with the ES from Lexus. We selected it as our chariot during our stint in Toronto a couple of years ago for the...

A couple years ago, Subaru lost a sale.

I was put in touch with a friend of a friend who was looking to upsize from his Dodge Charger sedan to an SUV with three rows of seating. He felt this was necessary for a couple of reasons:

1)...

Things can happen fast in the automotive world when enough criticism is invoked. For instance, when the Kia Forte first debuted its interior was largely panned as being too cheap looking and feeling. Within six months of receiving the criticism,...

I bumped into an old work acquaintance, named Jamie, a few weeks ago while out sampling some particularly delicious ramen. After we both agreed the ramen was fantastic, we naturally moved the conversation along to cars.

I asked him what he...