Top 10s: New Retro-mobiles

By John LeBlanc You can’t bring back the past. But with some new cars these days, you can certainly try and buy it. Volkswagen’s 1999 New Beetle started the modern retro-mobile (old-fashioned clothes over modern mechanicals) trend. Using an existing front-engine Golf chassis, it was styled to look like the rear-engine “Bug” that became a […]

2010 in Review: My Best Driving Experiences

[svgallery name=”2010_MB_SLS_hirez”] By John LeBlanc Out of the hundreds of cars and thousands of kilometres I drove in 2010, two cars separated by four decades provided my two best experiences.

2010 Toronto Auto Show – “Must See” Performance Cars

By John LeBlanc Environmentalists and politicians can’t seem to kill high-performance cars. Despite rising fuel prices, congested traffic, draconian speeding laws and political incorrectness, there’s still plenty of new-car buyers who want a fun-to-drive and powerful car. While there is still be plenty of “diesel this” and “hybrid that” at this year’s Canadian International AutoShow, […]