Despite departing from Australia, Ford has no plans on leaving Canada

By John LeBlanc After almost nine decades of manufacturing in the country, and citing increasingly high costs, dropping sales and mounting financial losses, America’s Ford Motor Co. will shutter its Australian automotive and engine assembly plants in 2016. Share:

VW retrofitting late-model diesels so customers will stop filling them with gas

Story by John LeBlanc Sounds simple, right? If you’ve made the conscious effort to buy a diesel-engine vehicle, you probably know enough to consciously fill the tank with diesel fuel. But that’s not the case with some Volkswagen TDI-brand diesel owners.

With Chevy rebadging the Nissan NV200, is the domestic van segment dead?

By John LeBlanc If the commercial van seen above wearing a Chevrolet bow tie looks vaguely familiar, that’s because it’s a rebadged Nissan. This week, America’s General Motors confirmed it would sell a version of the existing Nissan NV200 Compact Cargo commercial van as the Chevrolet City Express in the U.S. and Canada.

Will the new 2014 Toyota Corolla be competitive enough?

By John LeBlanc As previewed by the Furia concept (seen above) from this year’s Detroit auto show, we already know Japan’s Toyota has an all-new version of its compact Corolla sedan hitting showrooms this fall as a 2014 model. But in a segment chock-a-block with competitive products like the Hyundai Elantra, Ford Focus and Volkswagen […]

Would you buy a small Chevy sports coupe?

By John LeBlanc Save for its ill-fated Corvair from the 1960s and the equally unremarkable Monza a decade later, General Motors’ Chevrolet brand has never had a compact, rear-wheel-drive performance sports coupe to sell below its iconic Camaro and Corvette. But a report from Automotive News says the idea of a smaller-than-a-Camaro Chevy two-door is […]

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