UNBIASED AUTOMOTIVE JOURNALISM SINCE 2001

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Road Test: 2013 Honda Accord Sedan Sport CVT

Story and photos by John LeBlanc Between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s — when Ayrton Senna was winning driver’s championships in Honda-powered Formula One cars, and each new production model was not only sucked up by young, import-loving Boomers and critically acclaimed in the motoring press, and also being picked apart by American and German rivals, […]

First Drive: 2013 Ford Fusion

Story and photos by John LeBlanc SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — The family sedan segment has become a virtual game of leapfrog. Seemingly, every few weeks, some automaker is debuting an all-new, mid-sized four-door of some sort, quickly followed by a rival launching shortly thereafter. In the past year alone, we’ve seen redesigned versions of mainstream, […]

Road Test: 2013 Dodge Dart Rallye 1.4 MultiAir Turbo

Text and photos by  John LeBlanc Don’t be fooled by this new Dodge compact’s American name. Unlike the Dart from the sixties and seventies your grandparents may have driven, the new 2013 version’s flavour is more like a pizza from Naples than a hot dog from Coney Island.

Comparo: 2013 Hyundai Genesis 5.0 R-Spec vs. Lexus GS 350 AWD

Text and photos by John LeBlanc In a case of history repeating itself, two decades after Japan’s Lexus showed its more established German luxury brands a thing or two about value, Korea’s Hyundai dropped the same value bomb on Lexus with its 2009 Genesis luxury sedan.

First Drive: 2013 Chevrolet Trax

Text and photos by John LeBlanc OTTAWA – With a business based on selling trucks and SUVs, just three model years ago, the only small cars in Chevrolet’s lineup were the decrepit Cobalt compact sedan and coupe, its retro-styled HHR tall-wagon sibling and bottom-feeding Aveo crapbox. Today though — with the introduction of the Cobalt-replacing […]

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