Car Reviews & Road Tests

2013 Volkswagen Golf GTI Wolfsburg Edition Review and Road Test

May 24, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

Get ‘em while they’re hot. This side of perhaps the Nissan GT-R, there are few performance vehicles that have quite the cult following that the VW Golf GTI does. When the folks in Wolfsburg, Germany took a garden-variety, city runabout hatchback, added a special Bosch fuel injection system, put it on a diet an slapped [...]

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2013 GMC Acadia Denali Review and Road Test

May 17, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

This is our next family vehicle. Right now we’re rocking a Dodge Caravan and for our family of five including a two, a five and eight year old and it does the trick. Baby seats and access to people that sometimes need help getting their seatbelts done up and undone make a van with two [...]

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2013 Jaguar XJL AWD Portfolio Review and Road Test

May 14, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

The all-wheel drive hits keep on coming from Jaguar. When we recently tested the Jaguar XF AWD, we were impressed not just by its dynamics, but by the fact that Jaguar has finally woken up and realized that V6-powered, AWD luxury sedans are necessary, especially in the Canadian market. We also liked how the six-cylinder [...]

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2013 Cadillac ATS 3.6L AWD Review and Road Test

May 13, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

Achtung, Deutschland; General Motors is serious about building sports sedans. Not too long ago, Cadillac unleashed the ATS on the motoring world to great critical acclaim. Despite the fanfare, unshakable links to a couple of Caddy’s skeletons in the closet were inevitable, specifically where the Cimmaron and the Catera are concerned. We can be thankful that [...]

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2013 Mercedes-Benz B250 Review and Road Test

May 13, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

A fresh take on multi-person luxury motoring. A few eyebrows were raised when the B-Class first arrived in Canada in 2005; here was a multi-purpose  vehicle (MPV) from Mercedes, a manufacturer known on our shores as a builder of luxury sedans, convertibles and SUVs and besides the base C-Class, very little in the way of [...]

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2013 Jaguar XF 3.0 AWD Review and Road Test

May 8, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

All-wheel drive and V6 power come to Jaguar’s mid-size sedan. For 2013, The Jaguar XF has received both an AWD set-up and a six-cylinder engine, two features that give the XF both a throwback to some of its predecessors, and added relevancy in the mid-size sedan market, especially in Canada. First, the connection with Jags (or, as [...]

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2013 Ford C-MAX Hybrid Review and Road Test

May 6, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

A great application of hybrid tech. The current Ford Focus is very good; there’s a practical sedan version, a sporty hatchback version, an upcoming turbocharged version that will rival the best in the hot-hatch biz and even an electric version. What there isn’t—and hasn’t been in North America since ’07—is a wagon version. Which is [...]

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Ignition: 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 BlueTEC

May 1, 2013 Automotive News

Ottawa, ON – In yet another example of how diesels are here in North America to stay, Mercedes-Benz has brought some oil burnin’ power to its hot-selling small luxury crossover, the GLK. Called the GLK250 BlueTEC, it marks the first time a diesel engine has found its way under the hood of a car in this [...]

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2013 Chevrolet Traverse AWD Review and Road Test

May 1, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

For a family of five, there aren’t a lot of options suitable outside of vehicles with sliding side doors. Minivans have lots of upside especially on the practical side of the equation but if car buying was all about practicality there wouldn’t be vehicles priced over $30,000.

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2013 Ford Escape Titanium Review and Road Test

May 1, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

There’s no Escape-ing the advancement of Ford’s bread-and-butter SUV. Yeah, we went there. As a former owner of the first generation Ford Escape (2005 XLT 4WD V6, by the bye) I was interested to see how big the strides the folks at the Blue Oval were able to make on what is their strongest SUV [...]

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Ignition: 2014 Chevrolet Impala

April 30, 2013 Automotive News

Haliburton, ON – We were impressed by the 2014 Chevrolet Impala when we first encountered it at the 2012 New York International Auto Show. Here was a model that had been forever locked in the humdrum-ness of being a fleet special (a mid-size rental, a taxi, or a police car), looking like it had been given [...]

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2013 Volkswagen Jetta Turbo Hybrid Highline Review and Road Test

April 26, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

A hybrid to believe in. Not that I don’t believe in Hybrids, per se. When used properly, they mostly work as advertised to reduce fuel costs (tangible to consumers) and environmental costs (not as tangible, but at least equally important in the big picture). It’s just that I found the sacrifices required to simply be [...]

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2013 Hyundai Santa Fe XL Limited Review and Road Test

April 25, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

The Santa Fe gets room for six (or seven). On the surface, the Santa Fe XL may not look like a big departure from the Santa Fe Sport—in fact, it hardly looks like a departure at all, which is impressive considering what that “XL” designation means, namely, a V6 as the only engine choice (the [...]

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2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco Review and Road Test

April 19, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

When my father retired he worked for a rental car agency and his favourite car was the Chevy Malibu. He loved its roomy interior, comfortable ride and was always impressed at its fuel economy numbers. When I told him I was bringing home a Malibu Eco for the week he exclaimed “This is even better!” [...]

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2013 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Highline Review and Road Test

April 16, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

Now that the Hybrid’s here, does the Jetta TDI still have what it takes? Things for the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Clean Diesel just got a little more complicated. Not because some hotshot new manufacturer—like Kia, for example—has decided to bring the fight to the Jetta’s doorstep brandishing an arsenal of new-wave diesel tech. Not because [...]

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2013 Toyota Tacoma Limited Review and Road Test

April 12, 2013 Car Reviews & Road Tests

Toyota’s pint-sized pickup soldiers on. Repeat visitors to Carpages know by now that I’m not a ‘truck guy.’ In the interest of setting the record straight, that doesn’t mean I hate trucks; it just means that 99.99 per cent of the time I’d prefer to be behind the wheel of a car and not some [...]

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