2006 Mercedes-Benz ML-C...

Ask Mercedes-Benz what spurred the original M-Class to market and the answer is long and somewhat convoluted. The real reason, however, is not difficult to find if you scratch the surface – when M-B polled its owner body most had an SUV (a Jeep Grand Cherokee usually) parked in the...

2006 Mazda MX-5 Miata

From its inception, the Mazda Miata has paid homage to the British Sports cars of the 1960s. Indeed, it’s fair to say the Miata represents what these fun-to-drive roadsters could have become had they been allowed to mature. And as with those early offerings, the Miata developed a...

2006 Lexus RX400h

A cursory glance at Lexus’s latest hybrid reveals little out of the ordinary. Indeed, rather than shouting its green status to the world the RX400h says it in very subtle ways. A closer look reveals a grille in the middle of the bumper fascia (to feed the hybrid its much-needed cooling...

2006 Lexus IS250

Lexus, Toyota’s luxury marque, has redesigned it’s IS sedan for 2006 in order to attract new, younger buyers. The IS sedan was originally packaged to compete with the perceived class leader, the BMW 3 series. For this road test I drove the rear wheel drive Lexus IS 250...

2006 Jeep Commander

The new 2006 Commander places the Jeep brand in uncharted territory – three rows of seating to accommodate seven passengers. The styling of the Commander has created a love-it-or-leave-it polarity for anyone viewing the car for the first time. The upright slab-sided design appears to...

2006 Hyundai Azera

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. And that’s what Hyundai is doing as it takes a serious run at the upscale premium car market in North America. The introduction of its 2006 Azera is an effort to overcome the shortcomings in style and execution of the XG300 and XG350....

2006 Honda Ridgeline pi...

For many diehard truckers, putting Honda and pickup truck in the same sentence is tantamount to heresy. Indeed, had the Ridgeline been a light-duty, part-time priss of a thing the initial reaction might have proven to be true. As it turns out Honda’s Ridgeline is a credible truck...

2006 Honda Civic

In redesigning the 2006 Honda Civic, Honda’s designers and engineers could have used the old saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. After all, it was been the best-selling passenger car in Canada from 1998 to 2005. More than 1.2 million Civics have been...