Tag Archives: driving

All it took was about a 20 kilometer trip behind the wheel of Mazda’s new compact sedan before I was able to form a rather pointed first impression.

“Well, you’ve certainly matured,” I said to myself...

On the grand scale of things Canada is quite a minor player when it comes to automotive market share. We buy about two million new vehicles per year. Compare that to the Americans and the Australians who buy more than double that amount....

A couple of years ago, I drove the 2017 Toyota Corolla sedan. I started the review by mentioning a nameless friend whose favourite vehicle to...

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...