Top 6 Used wagons

[svgallery name=”Used_Wagons”] By John LeBlanc Maybe you didn’t get the memo – the one announcing that the station wagon is dead. Well, in name only, at least. Wagons still exist. They’re now called crossovers, tall station wagons without the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies’ less-than-fashionable image. Or, if they do exist, wagons are given fancy names […]

Will small car buyers find Ford?

By John LeBlanc Two thousand and nine was a very good year for Ford in Canada. In an industry down 12 per cent, sales were up 7, resulting in a 15 per cent marketshare—the automaker’s best here in seven years. Ford even beat out General Motors in truck sales for the first time in a […]

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 […]

2010 Detroit: Chevy gets small

By John LeBlanc DETROIT – Like Ford’s presentation at this year’s show, General Motors’ mainstream Chevrolet has got small car religion—bad.

2010 Detroit: Is Honda’s new CR-Z a new-age CR-X?

By John LeBlanc DETROIT – No far out concepts like the P-Nut from last month’s LA show. But fans of fun and frugal should be excited about the production debut of the 2011 Honda CR-Z two-seat hybrid. Over the past few months, information about the CR-Z has been leaking like a sieve. Here’s what Honda […]

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