Feature: 2011 24 Heures du Mans

Diesel Sports Car Wars Germany’s Audi and France’s Peugeot continued their battle at La Sarthe By John LeBlanc LE MANS, France – Future historians will agree: Audi started the 21st-century diesel sports car war. The ambitious Teutonic automaker fired the first salvo by entering its audacious diesel (yes, diesel!) powered sports car in the legendary […]

The Crank: Signs of life from Japan’s Honda

By John LeBlanc “Can it get any worse?” is more than likely a rhetorical question the good folks at Japan’s Honda’s HQ are trying to avoid asking themselves.

From the Fleet: 2011 Audi A3 TDI S-Line

FROM THE FLEET are brief synopses of manufacturer-supplied rides that happen to end up in my laneway – John LeBlanc Prepping for an upcoming “diesel vs. hybrid” comparo for the Toronto Star, I’ve just spent some quality time in an A3 TDI: Audi’s smallest derv drinker.

The Crank: Does Porsche still need to go racing to sell cars?

By John LeBlanc OTTAWA, Ont. – After 20-odd years, Porsche Canada is jumping back into racing in Canada. The first of its inaugural Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada races was held this past weekend at Calabogie Motorsports Park, about an hour’s drive west of Ottawa. Then, on the weekend before this year’s Montreal Grand Prix, […]

The Crank: Will Honda follow Toyota with its own annus horribilis?

By John LeBlanc While the manufacturing crisis in Japan has affected almost every automaker on the planet to some degree, the disaster seems to have particularly hit hard for Honda. And, seemingly, the crisis couldn’t have come at a worse time for the struggling Japanese automaker. Just as rival Toyota was measurably hurt last year as it […]

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