The Trouble with Toyotas: Can Toyota avoid Audi’s unintended acceleration woes?

By John LeBlanc Can things get any worse for Toyota these days? As you probably know, the Japanese automaker has stopped selling some of its most popular models and suspending production at five North American plants for the week of Feb. 1 to fix accelerator pedals that stick in 2.3 million vehicles recalled last week.

My Most Anticipated Test Drives for 2010

[svgallery name=”2010_Most_Anticipated_Test_Drives”] By John LeBlanc Some of the cars I test-drove last year were more surprising than others. Who would have guessed Honda’s Insight would have been such a flop? Or that in the same year it dropped out of Formula One racing, Toyota would launch its US$375,000 552 hp V10 LF-A supercar? But 2009? […]

Spyker saves Saab! Maybe. Probably not.

By John LeBlanc Out of the burning ashes known as Government Motors, it appears as if boutique supercarmaker Spyker has won the rights to take over the money pit known as Saab. After a long, drawn out affair, rose-colour-glass-wearing Saabistas are rejoicing that Swedish-designed Opels will continue. Potentially still-born product like the next 9-5 sedan, […]

Top 6 Used wagons

[svgallery name=”Used_Wagons”] By John LeBlanc Maybe you didn’t get the memo – the one announcing that the station wagon is dead. Well, in name only, at least. Wagons still exist. They’re now called crossovers, tall station wagons without the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies’ less-than-fashionable image. Or, if they do exist, wagons are given fancy names […]

Canadian Saab picnic won’t save doomed brand

By John LeBlanc Have you heard? The Saab Club of Canada is planning a “Save Saab” rally on Saturday. The idea is to get the “attention” of the Swedish brand’s parent General Motors and to send a message that Saab should be sold, rather than shut down. I truly sympathize. But you Saabistas are a […]

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