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Nondescript B.C. shop restores the world’s finest classic cars
It is five o’clock in the morning on a small industrial side road in North Vancouver. The pre-dawn light is grey and thin, the businesses are closed and the street is empty. There is nothing to catch...
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Toyota plots a comeback for Prius after Tesla steals green spotlight
When Scott Fisher bought his 2006 Prius, there weren’t many other choices that give him use of the carpool lanes on his drive to work in New York. That changed last year when the Long Island lawyer...
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Ford said to invest $2.5-billion on two Mexican factories, unveil new engines
Ford intends to invest US$2.5-billion on two factories in Mexico to manufacture transmissions and diesel engines, said a person familiar with the company’s plans. The second-largest U.S. automaker may...
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Toyota to relocate Corolla production from Ontario to Mexico
Toyota is building two new auto plants, one in Mexico and the other in China, ending a three-year hiatus from such ambitions that the Japanese automaker voluntarily imposed on itself after massive...
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Car Review: 2015 Audi A3 Quattro Technik
Overview The sensible compact luxury sedan from Germany Pros Excellent interior, decent price, Quattro all-wheel-drive Cons In this model, not much. The TDI version, though, should come with Quattro....
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Porsche deliveries spike thanks to popular Macan
Porsche, the company behind what many consider the paragon of sports cars, just found another gear. Deliveries of the Volkswagen brand jumped about a third in the first quarter of 2014, compared to the...
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Speed is a way of life for Olympic champ Kaillie Humphries
Adrenaline in the veins. Breath loud in the helmet. Cheers of the crowd fade to a far-off roar. Flags from a hundred nations create a riot of colour, but her eyes see nothing but the river of white,...
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Women at the Wheel: A Perfect Fit
Masha Marinkovic has been in love with cars since she could talk. Some of her first words had to do with cars, so it’s not surprising the 37-year-old has found her calling at General Motors of Canada....
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Iconic Terry Fox van endures long after Marathon of Hope
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “Maybe he couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried -Edgar Albert Guest Somewhere in a lonely lay-by...
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Indian SUV maker close to sealing deal to buy Pininfarina design house
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., India’s largest maker of sport-utility vehicles, is in the final stages of negotiations to buy Italian auto-design firm Pininfarina SpA, according to people familiar with...
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Our illustrated guide to the greatest car movies of all time
And the winner is… When Birdman took the Oscar for Best Picture this year, you can bet there was plenty of squawking. How could they overlook such films as the quirky Grand Budapest Hotel, the...
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Brabus Startech turns Range Rover Sport into a pickup truck
Ever wonder what a Range Rover pickup would look like? It might be a question nobody asked, but German tuner Brabus has an answer in time for this year’s Shanghai Motor Show. Based on the Range Rover...
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Toyota engineer doesn’t think electric cars are the way of the future
Yoshikazu Tanaka, the chief engineer behind the hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Toyota Mirai, is calling the long-term viability of electric cars into question. Speaking to Automotive News, Tanaka disagrees...
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Chevrolet will keep ‘Bolt’ nameplate for production version
Chevrolet will be keeping the ‘Bolt’ nameplate for the production-spec model. That’s the latest word from USA Today, which spoke to Chevrolet marketing head Tim Mahoney. The decision comes after GM was...
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Hybrid Highway: The car that started the revolution
VANCOUVER — Ujjal Dosanjh was premier, Philip Owen was the Vancouver mayor, Markus Naslund led the Canucks’ scoresheet and Gladiator topped the box office. All distant memories from the year 2000. The...
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Audi unveils 734-hp Prologue Allroad concept
Audi has taken the wraps off the next chapter in the Prologue family of concept cars. Set to bow at the upcoming Shanghai Motor Show, the Prologue Allroad Concept builds on what we’ve seen so far from...
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First Drive: 2016 Fiat 500X
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Fiat is building its portfolio with the addition of the all-new 500X crossover. While it shares some of its makeup with the 500L, it is a very different take on that package. As...
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Motor Mouth: I nearly got killed by an inattentive driver
I went for my first motorcycle ride of the year last Sunday, the spring that threatened to never arrive finally blooming in full force. Snow melted, birds finally chirping and the mercury sliding up to...
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Comparison: 2015 Ford Fiesta ST vs. Mini Cooper S 5 Door
A pair of oil crises and government-mandated curbing of automobile emissions in the 1970s all but killed off the once mighty American V8 muscle car. But in the wake of neutered Ford Mustang Cobras and...
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Edmonton car detailing shop caters to perfectionists
You could easily drive past the plain-Jane structure that houses Auto Obsessed. It doesn’t look any different on the outside than countless other commercial buildings in the city. But on the day I...
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