Road Trip: Mini goes hunting for Airstreams

Story and photos by John LeBlanc PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.– “Don’t stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico … Find out what’s at the end of some country road. Go see what’s over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.” […]

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.

Comparo: Five frugal sports cars

Story and photos by John LeBlanc If you think about it, the first sports cars – the iconic post-World War II cars from MG, Triumph or Alfa Romeo, powered by small displacement four-cylinder engines – were relatively green for their time. Then a certain chicken farmer named Carroll Shelby from Texas came along and stuffed […]

Comparo: 2008 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ vs. Dodge Avenger R/T vs. Ford Fusion SEL

Story and photos by John LeBlanc While no one knows for sure what lies ahead for the Detroit Three, right here, right now they’re still very much in the business of selling cars. And some of those cars can be had with never-before-seen incentives, particularly in the highly competitive family sedan class. To that end, […]

First Drive: 2009 Audi A4

Story and photos by John LeBlanc Bowmanville, Ont. – With one-in-two Audis sold in Canada an A4, one doesn’t have to have a degree in economics to understand how important the premium compact sports sedan and wagon are to the German automaker here. Since the first A4 debuted in Europe in 1972 (then known as […]

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