Honda used to be the Civic company, but that’s old thinking. Yes, yes, while Honda still sells piles of Civics – Canada’s best-selling car for a million years or so — the CR-V crossover wagon is the rig that defines the brand in a marketplace salivating over crossovers, SUVs (sport-utility vehicles) and trucks of all …
Why consumers will grow to love electric vehicles
There are many good reasons to love electric vehicles (EVs), most of them practical and some highly emotional. I love how quick they are. A modest little Chevrolet Bolt — $30,406 will Ontario’s incentives — will do 0-100 km/hour in less than 7.0 seconds. A lightning-fast Tesla Model S in Ludicrous mode — $186,200 — …
The cult of Tesla explained
The typical Tesla bull is an optimistic cheerleader who celebrates the self-proclaimed genius of founder and CEO Elon Musk. The Tesla true believer can in fact be expected to re-charge a Model S off the solar panels he or she also uses to juice-up a laptop that tracks the soaring price of Tesla’s shares. Those …
2017 Nissan Titan review: might have been something great
Nissan clearly tried very hard to give the most loyal of vehicle owners many good reasons to switch – to go from Ford’s F-150, Chevrolet’s Silverado, GMC’s Sierra, Fiat Chrysler’s Ram or Toyota’s Tundra to Nissan’s 2017 Titan. Give Nissan gets an “A” for effort. The Titan full-size pickup does, indeed, deliver a quiet ride, …
April 14, 2017 | Commentary, First on the Grid Like Comments (0) |
‘Alright, alright, alright’: 2017 Lincoln Continental hides its Ford Fusion roots
I run in a crowd of people with birth certificates and bank balances that might suggest an interest in cars offered by the Lincoln Motor Co., Ford’s luxury brand. Our kids are grown and we have tickets to U2 (with Mumford and Sons), revisiting the original Joshua Tree tour of three decades ago. We ski, …
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