2009 LA Show Highlights

[svgallery name=”2010_LA_Show”] Story and photos by John LeBlanc LOS ANGELES–You can’t ignore the math at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show. With the auto industry in full contraction – fewer brands, fewer all-new models, fewer pie-in-the-sky concepts and fewer media – these types of events have become pared- down affairs compared to the gratuitous auto […]

Feature: Prius grows up

Story and photos by John LeBlanc While taking some photographs of the latest version of the Toyota Prius in a parking lot at one of the many wineries lining the hills in the Napa Valley, a well-kept baby boomer approached me cautiously. “Is that the new Prius?” she asked, looking for all the world like […]

First Drive: 2010 Toyota Prius

Story and photos by John LeBlanc YOUNTVILLE, Calif.–With more than one million sold worldwide – about 14,000 in Canada since 2000 – the Prius has become the best-selling, most-recognizable hybrid in the world, and a halo car casting Toyota in an eco-friendly light.

First Drive: 2009 Toyota Venza

Story and photos by John LeBlanc PITTSBURGH–According to Toyota, its new Venza is not a car, station wagon, or SUV. Instead, the company says its latest unibody utility vehicle has “no direct competitors in the market … It is a new kind of vehicle … a segment buster.” So while the Venza looks, smells and […]

Top 10 Most Significant AWD rides

Not many years ago, the only drivers who had all-wheel drive at their disposal were farmers or forest workers.

These days, many Canadian drivers take traction at all four wheels for granted as a way to get through the worst winter driving.

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