If you’re willing to spend $116,500-plus, then you can put yourself into a vanity ride masquerading as a functioning SUV (sport-utility vehicle), one Mercedes-Benz calls a coupe – except this coupe is monstrous, has four doors and a heavy rear hatch. Hard to believe, I know. And you’ll be positively gob-smacked by the painful effort …
Porsche Boxster Spyder marks end of an era
Porsche’s engineers refer to it – the 2016 Boxster Spyder — as a “pure sports car,” one that accurately defines the heart and soul of Porsche today. The first part, absolutely. The other half, the “heart and soul” bit? We’ll get to that later. First, let’s dwell on the sports car piece. From the pavement …
Happy 100th BMW and here’s your present: Mercedes-Benz poised to take the global luxury crown
In the fall of 2010, then-BMW Canada president Franz Jung was preparing for the inevitable – the end of a nearly nine-year run as the No. 1 premium auto maker in Canada. Sure enough, Mercedes-Benz Canada overtook BMW at the end of 2010, riding a wave of new models that among other things pushed Mercedes …
Battle of the Ford SUVs — Edge versus Explorer
Ford Motor offers two utility vehicles of about the same size, priced in about the same range, offering similar power choices, delivering fuel economy in the same ballpark and selling in nearly equal numbers to Canadians. Moreover, the Ford Edge and Explorer come with the same basic 907 kg tow rating and score identically for …
March 16, 2016 | Commentary, First on the Grid, Videos 1 Comments (0) |
A California road trip in the 2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid — fuel efficient travel in a compact SUV
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