Is a Lambo S-U-V simply W-R-O-N-G?

After multiple denials, it looks like Italian super car builder Lamborghini is getting into the profitable SUV game. I ask how “right” this decision is over at MSN Autos’ Passing Lane blog. Full post 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 […]

2011 Geneva: Renault R-Space & Captur Concepts

Story and photos by John LeBlanc GENEVA – The first of the three French automakers making debuts this year in Geneva was Renault. And the French biased crowd (France is just a croissant’s throw away) loved the new pair of compact concepts. The R-Space, left, and Captur, above, are the second and third concepts under […]

2011 Geneva: Seat IBX Concept

Story and photos by John LeBlanc GENEVA – Like its Czech Skoda brand stable mate, the VW Group’s Spanish Seat (say “say-at”) doesn’t sell any cars here in Canada. Too bad. The new Seat IBX concept—that previews a production compact SUV— is a slick little machine. Based on the same platform as the VW Tiguan […]

Road Trip: 2011 Infiniti QX56

By John LeBlanc PICTON, ONT.—There’s little doubt. Infiniti’s latest large SUV is more luxury hotel suite than family transportation. Having to extricate our daughter and two of her camping buddies out of the QX56 to stop them from watching Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back on the trio of DVD screens scattered throughout […]

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