Victoria, BC – The CR-V is a big deal to Honda. It’s is the second-biggest seller for them, after their perennial (I don’t know, does 18 years in a row as bestselling car in Canada count as perennial?) sales driver, the Civic. Anything that is a manufacturer’s second biggest sales pillar will get special attention, and the fact that the compact SUV

For the Canadian introduction of its redesigned 2017 Elantra, Hyundai scheduled a day of driving in and around Victoria, BC. The morning's route took us past picturesque oceanside parks and along twisting forest-lined backroads. Then after lunch we stopped at a suburban grocery store where corporate reps loaded each Elantra's capacious trunk with b

Okay, it's no dune buggy, but churning through the soft, deep sand of an empty California beachfront property, Nissan's 2017 Pathfinder proved that despite now sporting unibody construction, a CVT automatic and a whole electronics outlet’s worth of technology, it still has some vestigial remnants of the adventure-ready unstoppability that made the

After taking a hiatus for 2016, Nissan's full-size Armada SUV is back for 2017 in all-new form. It's not quite the same Armada North Americans have grown accustomed to, however: Where the previous Armada was based on the Titan pick-up truck and built in Canton, Mississippi, the new Armada makes a clean break from the Titan and is instead built in

The 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport competes in a fierce battle for ever-increasing sales – that’s life in the “small” crossover category. “Small” is laughable, because these are not small vehicles. But they don’t qualify as mid-size for one reason or another. Key competitors come to mind – the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 are perennial favourites he

It’s not an unfamiliar reaction: pin the throttle in the 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, and the car leaps ahead, power swelling up as the tachometer reaches the upper half of its sweep, and swelling up some more as the 7,400 rpm redline approaches. Gears shift, via the PDK transmission, at an impossible speed, and with impossible precision that sees

Upon arrival in Vancouver to sample GMC’s all-new 2017 Acadia, we jumped into our vehicles and drove the Sea-to-Sky highway toward Whistler. Our navigation system asked us to make a left turn about 20 kilometres before Whistler, onto an almost-hidden gravel road that winds its way through the lush B.C. forest. A minute later you arrive at a strikin

Lisbon, Portugal - The roads in and around the city of Lisbon proved to be the perfect test location to evaluate the all-new 2017 E-Class sedan. From Lisbon’s 19th Century cobblestone streets to the narrow winding coastal roads to the country’s immaculately paved high-speed toll highways, there was a road to challenge every aspect of the E-Class se

As luck would have it, the newly refreshed 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe XL was not available for our recent mega seven-seat CUV comparison test. Had this Hyundai been able to mix it up with the others, it’s fair to assume the pecking order might have been rearranged a bit.  It reads word-for-word from the Korean automaker’s playbook – keep improving a

Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat. The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider is not a Mazda MX-5 Miata. Well, it is. But it really isn’t. If you need a compact roadster, and you need it now, go to the mother lode. Glad we got that cleared up. Any questions? Why did Fiat bring this car to market? That’s an easy one. FCA needs more product

It’s technically called the Chevrolet Sonic Premier, but thanks to the big red “TURBO” badge on the back, you can tell your buds you’re driving a Chevrolet Sonic Turbo instead. The Chevy Sonic Turbo, er, Premier, is a cheap little car, and one example of the market’s growing number of cheap little car offerings that don’t feel like cheap little

Every so often, a manufacturer decides to give a ghost from their past a second chance at production. For Lincoln, this ghost is named Continental, a vehicle that once had a veritable shine and lustre that it gradually lost, until eventually the model was discontinued in 2002. 2016 seems to be the right year to give the flagship sedan a chance to r

OJAI, California – The Corolla turns 50 this year. And in honour of its half-century anniversary, the ubiquitous little sedan has just set a new standard, not just for the compact segment, but for every mainstream vehicle on the market. It’s part of Toyota’s “democratization of safety” strategy, making technology available to every mainstream b

Review by Jacob Black, photos courtesy of GM. The flagship Buick has a big upgrade for 2017. An all-new chassis and engine plus twin-clutch AWD system and eight-speed automatic are at the heart of the new LaCrosse. Buick told us they had four focus areas to improve: performance, ride and handling, quietness, and safety; though it was obvious tha

Chevrolet has announced the addition of the latest Camaro ZL1 to sixth-generation pony car 's lineup, powered by a 640-hp V8 that can be matched to Chevy's first 10-speed automatic transmission. The bowtie brand says the ZL1 was designed "to challenge the most advanced sports coupes in the world" with what it calls "unprecedented levels of techn