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Women at the Wheel: Aspiring mechanic is living her dream
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — The automotive service industry is progressing at a tremendous rate as vehicles become more technologically advanced and more reliant on computers. But there is one area where it is...
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Porsche 911 lineup to go all-turbo, GT3 RS could see manual transmission
The current iteration of the Porsche 911 GT3 is all about the track, but its distinct lack of a manual transmission has been a sticking point for many enthusiasts. But while speaking to Car and Driver...
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Jay Leno drives a classic Lamborghini Islero
When people think “Lamborghini,” images of scissor-doored supercars immediately jump to mind. But the fabled Italian marque started out building gentlemanly grand touring cars like this 1968 Islero...
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Calgary family has been part of Ford family since 1915
CALGARY — One hundred years may be a long time, but that’s how long the McCullough family has been connected to Ford motor products. In 1915, Ernest A. McCullough became a salesman for Ford. In those...
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Top 10: Best selling new vehicles in Canada
Based on another record sales year, Canadians simply can’t seem to stay out of new car showrooms. In 2014, a record 1,853,001* new cars and trucks were purchased in Canada — an increase of 6 per cent...
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2016 Honda Pilot confirmed for Chicago, Toronto debuts
Honda has announced the next-generation Pilot SUV will make its debut at two different North American auto shows next month. Set to debut on February 12 at the Chicago and Toronto auto shows, Honda is...
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First Drive: 2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Jay Leno once opined that comedians are “an inherently lazy lot,” their biggest fear taking the stage after another jester, namely Richard Pryor in Leno’s case, had sent the crowd...
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Toyota needs new China strategy to beat VW for sales crown
Toyota, which fended off Volkswagen to remain the world’s top automaker in 2014, may lose the sales crown as early as this year as it falls behind in China, the world’s biggest auto market. Toyota is...
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Reader Review: 2015 Toyota Yaris LE
Shouting across a valley usually produces an echo. But in Toyota’s case, the echo has become a Yaris. Prior to 2005, the Echo was Toyota’s subcompact offering here in Canada. After that, with the...
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Many ups and downs for Lea & Francis cars
In 1895, Richard Henry Lea and Graham Ingoldsby Francis became partners and formed the Lea & Francis Co. to manufacture bicycles. Their first experiment building cars in 1904 was less than...
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Behind the scenes with a top automotive photographer
“Oh-ho!” says one of the onlookers, “I hear a bull. An angry bull is coming!” Atop a parking garage in Vancouver’s Gastown, the echoing and re-echoing note of a large-displacement V12 hammers off hard...
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Classic Ford fully restored after rotting in a field for 40 years
Garry Singbeil was a 16-year-old walking to high school in early 1967 when he spotted a “For Sale” sign in the window of a 1954 Ford. The Lancer Maroon sedan with V8 power and an automatic transmission...
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GM to build continuously variable transmissions in-house
In an effort to meet increasingly strict fuel economy standards across the globe, GM is working to develop and build a new continuously variable transmission. According to a report from WardsAuto, GM...
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Porsche Boxster, Cayman expected to go turbo-four
On the heels of Porsche R&D chief Wolfgang Hatz saying most of the 911 lineup will use turbocharged engines, there’s a good chance the Boxster and Cayman will downsize to a turbocharged flat-four....
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GM issues stop-sale for 6,300 CUVs in the U.S.
General Motors has ordered a stop-sale on roughly 6,300 examples of the 2015 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia due to the possibility of cracking tires. Automotive News says the problem...
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BMW, Volkswagen planning to open 100 EV charging stations in U.S.
BMW and Volkswagen have teamed up with ChargePoint to open 100 new EV charging stations in the U.S. by the end of 2015. ChargePoint, an American company that operates nearly 20,000 charging stations in...
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These five cars blur genres. How would you define them?
In the 1970s and many decades before that, you bought a sedan, coupe, convertible, pickup truck or perhaps a van. The most confusing car to define back then was the Chevrolet El Camino — was it a...
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Cadillac to extensively use aluminum in CT6 chassis
Leading up to the reveal of Cadillac‘s flagship CT6 sedan, GM has detailed what we can expect under its sheet metal. The CT6 will boast what GM calls a “multi-material construction” throughout its...
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Defenders of the Realm: Classic SUVs are off-road icons
One imagines Her Majesty likes to get her knuckles bloody. Somewhere on a carefully groomed estate in Scotland, there’s a noise as an old battered Land Rover grinds to a halt. A silver head emerges...
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Audi’s TT crossover will likely be called the ‘TTQ’
Audi is still set on expanding the TT lineup with a new model, and it will do so with a production version of the TT Offroad concept. Based on the TT coupe and convertible, Audi’s upcoming,...
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