First Drive & Video: 2013 Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG

By John LeBlanc GENEVA—What is it about the guilty appeal of a stereotypical bad boy or bad girl? The kind of partner your parents and friends would never approve of. The type of relationship you secretly, deep down inside, lust after. That’s the problem I have with the updated 2013 Mercedes-Benz G-Class: it’s the bad […]

First Drive & Video: 2013 Acura ILX

By John LeBlanc SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – Honda’s premium Acura brand is in the midst of one of its largest product makeovers ever. And one of Acura’s most important new vehicles for the Canadian market is the new 2013 Acura ILX compact sedan, the brand’s latest entry in a segment it virtually created almost two decades […]

First Drive & Video: 2013 Acura RDX

By John LeBlanc PHOENIX, ARIZ.—Compact luxury crossover historians will tell you the 2004 BMW X3 was the vehicle that jump-started this new class. Soon after, you couldn’t walk into a new-car showroom without bumping into a small, premium crossover. For Honda’s Acura luxury brand, it was the RDX that debuted in 2006.

First Drive: 2012 Volkswagen Scirocco BlueMotion TDI

By John LeBlanc NICE, France – Whether they are hyper-French super minis, molto bene-Italian hot hatches or English-cottage-industry sports cars, Canadian driving enthusiasts have been forced to adopt a “look, but don’t touch” stance towards a variety of niche European cars not sold in our country. Arguably the one car that elicits the strongest feelings […]

First Drive & Video: 2013 Porsche Boxster

By John LeBlanc ST. TROPEZ, FRANCE—There have been some interesting sibling rivalries throughout the ages, from the Bible’s Cain and Abel to television’s Bart and Lisa Simpson. But not within Porsche’s sports car family.

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