2010 Kia Sorento SUV

The recipe for a compact crossover SUV has been pretty much cast in stone now. It needs to be car-based, available in front- or all-wheel drive, with four- or six-cylinder power, and suitable for soft-road use. The first-generation Kia Sorento, a tough body-on-frame truck design with real...

2010 Kia Sorento SUV

The recipe for a compact crossover SUV has been pretty much cast in stone now. It needs to be car-based, available in front- or all-wheel drive, with four- or six-cylinder power, and suitable for soft-road use. The first-generation Kia Sorento, a tough body-on-frame truck design with real...

2010 Volkswagen Golf GT...

Way back in the mid-’70s, shortly after the introduction of the new Rabbit which would eventually become the Golf, someone at Volkswagen in Germany had the brilliant idea of making a sporty performance car out of the compact sedan, and the “hot hatchback” was born. The GTI took...

Finding out what your c...

Finding Canadian used car values requires a little bit of work. One industry pioneer remains perhaps the best place to have someone else determine an approximate wholesale used car value, Canadian Black Book. The CBB web tool is used by many auto dealers and provides information for...

Finding out what your c...

Finding Canadian used car values requires a little bit of work. One industry pioneer remains perhaps the best place to have someone else determine an approximate wholesale used car value, Canadian Black Book. The CBB web tool is used by many auto dealers and provides information for...

2008 Audi A8

Since its introduction in 2004, the Audi A8 has earned a reputation for being as much a luxurious limousine as it is a pure driver’s car. The reason is that it pampers its riders and yet when driven quickly it does not feel at all cumbersome. The arrival of the V10-powered S8...

Las Vegas, not just for...

Las Vegas, Sin City… …a title its tourism department seems willing to promote and use to entice visitors looking for an escape or perhaps a discrete rendezvous. A couples weekend may be just the thing to invigorate a relationship. But let’s see if what happens in Vegas ACTUALLY...

2008 Smart Fortwo

Not that long ago – late 2004 – the smart car arrived in Canada as a sort of experiment on the part of its builder, Mercedes-Benz. The subsidiary set up to market the small urban vehicles had surprisingly not done so well, despite European cities being full of the things. So, it was...