Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
GMC today announces the new 2011 Sierra Denali HD, the first offering of the exclusive Denali line on a heavy-duty GMC pickup. The Sierra Denali HD leads a comprehensively redesigned lineup of 2011 Sierra 2500HD and 3500HD trucks that go on sale in early summer – including the most powerful diesel engine in the segment. [...]
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
NEW YORK, March 23 /CNW/ – Subaru today introduced the new 2011 Impreza WRX models, which for the first time share the wide-body design of the brand’s iconic WRX STI performance flagship model, including the new-for-2011 wide-body 4-door sedan. The wider body design gives the 2011 WRX an aggressive road presence and also allows wider [...]
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Driving or working at night can be tough enough without having to worry about what’s lurking in the dark. Fortunately, today’s modern lighting fixtures are doing a better job than ever of not only banishing the darkness, but of ensuring that you can be seen by those around you as well. Some of today’s brightest [...]
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Can downsizing a vehicle’s specs supersize its appeal? Mazda hopes so. For a company that has prided itself on the concept of “Zoom-Zoom” for many years, Mazda may seem to be doing a silly thing by “down-powering” its CX-7 SUV. Yet that’s exactly what it has done for the 2010 model year. The CX-7 has [...]
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Judging by the reception I got during my week with Ford’s outrageous SVT pickup truck, the company is causing much lust among truckophiles. I kid you not; of all the vehicles I’ve driven over the past decade or so, none got as much attention from neighbors, strangers and passersby as the Molten Orange (which looks [...]
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
The Canadian Car of the Year (CCOTY) awards were handed out by the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) at the opening of the Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto last week. The GTI beat nine other “Best” category winners that were decided upon at the annual Canadian Car of the Year TestFest last October [...]
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
- Distinctive New Styling Offers a Modern, Upscale Appearance - “Travel Avalon Class” with Segment’s Only Reclining Rear Seat and Overall Comfort - Modern Technologies Provide Comprehensible Convenience Toyota introduced the boldly redesigned 2011 Avalon today at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show. Evoking a time when travel was sophisticated, elegant and comfortable, the new Avalon [...]
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
More than 9.2 million Ford Focus vehicles have been sold across the globe since the nameplate launched in 1998 Focus has served as the basis for popular multi-activity, crosssover and performance vehicles like the European C-MAX, Kuga and Focus RS, plus the North American SVT Focus The next-generation Focus moves to a truly global Ford [...]
Friday, February 5th, 2010
TORONTO, Feb. 2 /CNW/ – Toyota Canada’s (TCI) January 26 decision to delay deliveries of 8 select Toyota division models while it addressed the sticking accelerator pedal issue that may, in rare circumstances, occur in those models, resulted in softer sales in January – with 8,246 Toyota models sold (down 14.8% from January 2009). Overall, [...]
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
MARKHAM, ON – Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. kicked off 2010 by recording its best January ever. With 6,084 units sold, the company beat its previous best January by nearly 1,300 units. That record was set back in 1986. With a year-over-year increase of over 32 per cent, January marked twelve straight months of best-ever months [...]