Infiniti Q60 I-Line Red Sport 400 AWD: I’m reminded of The Tragically Hip’s farewell tour

Of course you don’t need to put 400 horsepower on the road, through four fat slabs of rubber, while sitting in a snug little cabin that looks like a GQ design layout. Of course, you don’t. The Infiniti Q60 coupe, especially the outrageously powerful and not inexpensive I-Line Red Sport 400 AWD version ($65,295), is …

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2019 Passport: the Honda SUV priced like a BMW X3

Honda Motor has delivered some daring automobiles – the early Civics with the CVCC engines stand out. The new hybrid version of the CR-V small SUV (sport-utility vehicle) is certainly intriguing, too – especially so, given that Honda has long been confused about its hybrid strategy. Or strategies, given how many times Honda has darted …

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2019 Mazda3 GT: finally, Mazda gets serious about going upmarket

Let’s for the moment put aside the watch face-sized infotainment screen that’s standard here – even if it is nicely integrated into the top of the dash. It’s a tiny thing here in 2019. Instead, let’s focus on the big picture — the one about the reinvented, fourth-generation Mazda3 compact car, and in this case, …

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Jaguar versus Jaguar: old-school F-Pace vs. I-Pace EV

The past versus the future — both from Jaguar.

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One answer to surging pump prices: a hybrid, this one a Corolla

With a litre of gas selling for $1.77 or more in some parts of this great country – North Vancouver, in this case – you’d think that demand for thrifty gasoline-electric hybrids would be through the roof. Sure enough, the automaker most closely associated with hybrids saw them fly off the lot in August: Toyota …

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