The marketplace is lousy with mini-crossover wagons – I count at least 13 — but the best combination of style, handling, comfort and useful, smart technology may very well be the Mazda CX-3. Consider this rig’s nifty all-wheel-drive system, what I’ll call Exhibit A. Note: AWD is a $2,000 option on GX and GS versions …
Sync this: car buyers are clamoring for simplicity
Every week I climb aboard a new vehicle and if I am lucky, I’ll be able to drive away in 10 minutes or so. If not, I will spend quite a long time Bluetoothing my phone and sorting through and setting or cancelling all the different electronic features and systems now commonplace and standard on …
2019 Subaru WRX: entertaining bundle of compromises
In the summer of 2017, Subaru Canada went to Squamish, B.C., to make movies. In fact, a series of them. Subaru went there to document a series of 0-100 km/hour tests of the WRX street-legal racer, each short film containing an amusing twist. One told the story of a 0-100 km/hour sprint down a field …
Don’t bet against GM and its CEO, Mary Barra
General Motors CEO Mary Barra spent a large chunk of her week calmly discussing quarterly results that left investors relatively unimpressed. Shocking. GM’s shares enjoyed a small bump this week — $1.32 since Oct. 30 – but the company ended the week worth less than Tesla. Billions less. The market values GM at $51.45 billion, …
November 15, 2018 | Commentary, First on the Grid Like Comments (0) |
EVs present a potential $25 billion problem to governments
We can all agree that the global auto industry is 100 per cent committed to electric or electrified vehicles, seeing them as eventually supplanting the traditional internal combustion engine. No one, however, can offer definitive answers to three critical questions: When? How many? And how much? The answers aren’t there because there are so many …
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