My Most Anticipated Test Drives for 2010
[svgallery name=”2010_Most_Anticipated_Test_Drives”] By John LeBlanc Some of the cars I test-drove last year were more surprising than others. Who would have guessed Honda’s Insight would have been such a flop? Or that in the same year it dropped out of Formula One racing, Toyota would launch its US$375,000 552 hp V10 LF-A supercar? But 2009? […]
2010 Montréal: Volkswagen Golf wins new Canadian annual car award
By John LeBlanc MONTREAL – It’s not only the fine people of Detroit that put on an auto show this time of the year. Just down the St. Lawrence River, a couple of hours on the 401, our neighbors in la belle province put on quite a car show of their own. This year, along […]
the straight-GOODS/Sports Coupes
2010 BMW 135i Coupé Base Price: $42,900 Driver Must Haves: “NOT A CHICK CAR” bumper sticker. Let’s pretend the secretary special 128i doesn’t exist, OK? And if BMW makes a convertible 1 Series, I’m drawing a blank. That leaves the 135i Coupe for car zealots, stuffed to its firewall with the same twin-turbo 3.0-litre straight-six […]
2010 CCOTY: Sports & Performance under $50k
[svgallery name=”CCOTY_Sports_under_50k_hirez”] Story, videos and photos by John LeBlanc As a member of the Automotive Journalists Association of Canada (hey, they have cheap travel insurance), I got invited for two days in late October to drive new 2010 cars over public roads and an airport test track. The goal was to pick a category winner […]
First Drive: 2010 Aston Martin Vantage Coupe
[svgallery name=”10_Aston_Martin_Vantage”] Story by John LeBlanc. Photos by Aaron Kiley. The leather-wrapped steering wheel I’m clutching is attached to a brand-new Vantage Coupé. Yet staring at that chrome-winged logo spelling out “Aston Martin,” nostalgia washes over me.
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