Comparo: 2010 Chevrolet Camaro RS vs. Hyundai Genesis Coupe 3.8 GT

[svgallery name=”2010_Chevy_Camaro_vs_Hyundai_Genesis_Cpe”] It’s an age thing Can Korea’s first legit pony car take on one of the originals? By John LeBlanc At first glance, Hyundai’s Genesis Coupe and Chevrolet’s Camaro appear to have as much in common as apple pie and kimchi. One is a modern reinterpretation of an American icon born in the ’60s; […]

The Crank: Mustang vs. Camaro winner depends on which side of the Canada-U.S. border

By John LeBlanc The bleating from General Motors’ U.S. PR flacks about the Camaro beating its archrival Mustang on the sales charts, can be heard all the way north of the 49th parallel. So far in 2010 in the U.S., Chevy has sold 75,685 Oshawa-built Camaros, 7,421 more than its bitter, pony car archrival, Ford’s […]

First Drive: 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe

Story and photos by John LeBlanc LAS VEGAS–The new-car market may be in the toilet. Everyone is still afraid of a return to high fuel prices. We probably all should be driving compact hybrid sedans. Yet automakers keep on rolling out rear-wheel-drive sporty cars. In the past 12 months, we’ve seen debuts of the resurrected […]

Preview: 2015 Ford Mustang

Story by John LeBlanc DEARBORN, MICH. — The number of automotive nameplates that have stuck around as long as the Ford Mustang are few and far between. In its half-century — it marks its 50th birthday in April 2014 — Ford Motor Co.’s long-standing 2+2 “pony car” has become a piece of Americana, as much […]

Road Test: 2013 Scion FR-S

Story and photo by John LeBlanc CALABOGIE, ONT. — It’s been four years since we first saw it at the Tokyo Motor Show as the Toyota FT-86 concept. But Toyota’s back-to-basics sports car — sold around the world as the GT-86 and in North America as the Subaru BRZ and my Scion FR-S tester — […]

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