Road Trip: 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe XL Limited

Story and photos by John LeBlanc PICTON, Ont. – Let’s be clear: there’s a big difference between “camping” and “car camping”. The former usually involves you and your significant other, solo hiking through somewhere very remote, with only a backpack containing your food and shelter. While the latter is, well, nothing like that at all.

Road Trip: 2013 Honda Pilot Touring

Story and photos by John LeBlanc SPRINGBROOK, P.E.I. — By definition, a vacation should be carefree and without compromises, particularly if it involves taking your family along. So when it came to booking a press fleet vehicle to test during our family’s annual summer sojourn to Prince Edward Island, I asked for a 2013 Honda […]

Road Trip: 2012 Honda Odyssey Touring

Story and photos by John LeBlanc SPRINGBROOK, P.E.I. – I’ll have no one accuse yours truly of not being thorough when it comes to big decisions. Take for instance the annual selection of a family vehicle to vacation in. It’s taken me four years—and an equal number of different rides—to come to the conclusion that […]

Road Test: 2012 Kia Sorento LX V6

A family road trip in the Canadian Rockies explores the capabilities of Kia’s Sorento in my Toronto Star Wheels piece here, or after the jump.

Road Trip: 2011 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon

Roughing it in the Rubicon How does Jeep’s retro Rubicon stand up as a weekend warrior? By John LeBlanc PICTON—I view tent camping as a retro form of human living. So it only made sense to borrow a Jeep Wrangler for our family’s annual weekend here at Sandbanks Provincial Park, on the shores of Lake […]

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