I’ve never been a Jeep fanatic. While I’ve long appreciated the legendary off-road capabilities of the OG sports ute, I’ve never had the need to exploit those capabilities. To me, the compromises in on-road handling have turned me away. Over the years, however, the continuous improvement of...
I live in the countryside, way up north. We’ve got plenty of outdoor space, plenty of lakes and cottages and trails, and plenty of roads that are in spectacularly bad shape. For these reasons and a few others, pickup trucks are the go-to means of conveyance for many who live here. A...
I’m not ashamed to admit this review started for purely selfish reasons. Being honest is important in this field, after all. For my better half and I, the holiday season is an especially busy one, with half a dozen families to visit. We needed something to haul people and things in comfort....
Two strong sellers for the Blue Oval, the Escape and Edge often make up a significant portion of dealership volume. For this model year, the smaller Escape has lost some of its chunky and squared-off charm in favor of more rounded bodywork. After receiving a boatload of changes last year, Edge...
Following a thorough refresh last year, the Acura ILX enters the new decade largely the same as the 2019 model. It squares off in a smaller market now than it did when it launched in 2013. Volvo killed off the S40 just the year prior, with the closest modern equivalent being its XC40 crossover....
When an opportunity like driving a 2020 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro comes your way, you don’t say no. Especially when a certain bow-hunting trip in the wilderness of northern Ontario is a part of the equation. Is the TRD Pro package necessary for a hunting trip? No, but it sure didn’t hurt and the...
The Toyota RAV4 and Honda CR-V were two of the first compact crossovers on the market. How do they fare against each other in 2020? Sensibility has become the driving factor behind why crossovers have taken over the market: they have the right mix of practicality, utility, and value that families...
The Infiniti QX60 is the best-selling vehicle in the entire Infiniti portfolio. As folks gravitate towards SUVs and crossovers to purchase, the mid-size offerings from Infiniti and others become more and more appealing. Infiniti is celebrating its 30th anniversary and we thought it’d be worth...
It may not look it, with its quietly confident new looks, but the 2020 Toyota Highlander is a fierce fighter. The battleground: the three-row crossover market. It’s a bloody battle royale, with two dozen competitors all vying for customer dollars. The current Highlander has been fighting...
If one were to heed the bleating of certain corner offices and C-suites, it would seem that the compact car culture has been #cancelled, evaporated from the landscape like a fleeting Instagram story or ill-considered tweet. Those suits assert that SUVs and crossover (read: tall wagons) are the Way...
The crossover boom is inescapable, even for Mazda, a marque long revered as the maker of fun-to-drive, reasonably priced cars. Its Mazda3 compact sedan formerly served as a gateway into the brand, but even it waned in popularity with the rise of enthusiasts’ least-favorite mildly lifted segment....
It’s raining. Normally that’d only be a mild annoyance on a car launch, scuppering more complicated photo ops. But I’m in Finland. Just inside the Arctic Circle. In December. It’s the sort of situation that even the ever-ready Porsche PR team might secretly chalk up as a...
It can be argued with some vehemence that the Ford Motor Company is responsible for the plethora of crossovers and SUVs plying our nation’s roads. When the Blue Oval introduced its then-new Explorer for the 1990 model year, it introduced a vehicle that offered 4×4 grip wrapped up in a...
The ride back was to be a laborious and deflating one. And had I not been in the new 2020 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn, I think I would have had less time to ponder over the dismal 10 days we had in the bush. Regardless of your stance on it, there’s no denying that hunting is… difficult....
As car companies innovate their way into the 2020s, many cubic acres of time and money are being shoveled into the furnace that is research & development for electric cars. Whether batteries will ultimately become the de facto replacement for internal combustion is up for debate and a...
