Telluride won a 2018 Conde Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice award and for good reasons – reasons I can speak to personally. I’ve strapped on the boards there, and I can tell you that the skiing at this Colorado resort is terrific – varied, interesting, often challenging and the snow is most often light and dry. …
$40,000 for a Jetta? Yes, the GLI is back
Volkswagen is a mass-market brand, but there’s nothing cute, cuddly or cheap about any of its models. On the contrary. The typical VW car or SUV (sport-utility) is designed and executed more like something you’d expect from VW’s Audi upscale brand. And pricing reflects that. Case in point: the 2020 VW Jetta GLI 35th Anniversary …
Kia Soul GT-Line — the sexy anti-car
Kia Canada sells a version of the Soul compact wagon for as little as $21,195. It’s a rather plain and perfectly sensible runabout wagon, one a little taller than the usual small car. You might overlook it entirely if you saw one in a parking lot. But there’s not missing the top-end of the Soul …
Is VW’s Golf SportWagen 100x better than my old ’61 Bel Air?
When I was in high school, I paid $325 for a mint-condition 1961 Chevrolet Bel Air station wagon. It wasn’t the sexiest car in the Campbell High School student parking lot, but it was a wagon I could work it with my eyes closed. And it was quite useful for a number of reasons. Let …
Memo to Chevrolet: give the Colorado some serious attention
The first number is “4.” The second “95.” The 91-point gap between the two is a brutal indictment of a pickup truck and a brand — and it’s really quite inexplicable. You see, Chevrolet’s Colorado midsize pickup earned just four points and finished dead last among all vehicles in the most recent reliability study from …