Test Drives

Halloween is by far the creepiest day of the year, with lost souls coming back to earth – perhaps some are nostalgic for their final car ride in an elaborately decked-out 1939 Packard! The bodies of the dead have a long history of being transported by their survivors. Horses were …

The concept of a rear-wheel drive Subaru is as foreign to most Canadians as the idea of Toyota pitching in to help build an exciting car. And yet here we are with the 2013 Subaru BRZ, by far the most exciting automobile in the Japanese brand's lineup and the direct …

For most people, there’s nothing unusual about taking a vacation in the middle of summer. For Car Guide journalists, however, this is something we can usually only dream about – until this year, that is. Why, you ask? By publishing the 47th edition of Québec’s best-selling automobile guide in the …

When I was asked to choose a performance car to drive The Car Guide’s promotional contest winners around the track, the answer was easy. For me, choosing the Porsche 911 Carrera was practically a no-brainer. With its timeless, classic lines and precision mechanics, the 911 Carrera can keep pace on …

Subaru is a company with a built-in customer base, one which is incredibly loyal and willing to embrace the quirkier design aspects that have long identified the automaker's products. The danger of enjoying such a devoted following is that a company can be tempted to ignore certain industry trends and …

When a company decides that being one of the biggest - if not THE biggest - car companies in the world is its most important goal, a number of changes must be made to how it approaches the market. When Volkswagen elected to pursue volume above all else a few …

I must admit that the Toyota Tundra pick-up never really excited me. Not to say that it isn’t a quality vehicle or that its engines lack power. Rather, I just didn’t like the fact that its designers made it bigger than the competition for the sole purpose of getting ahead …

It took several years for the North American branch of Ford to figure out that they needed to import the European version of the Focus to our continent. Not only does the European version look nicer, but it handles very well. Consequently, everyone was awaiting the 2012 model with bated …

Some sports cars are purely utilitarian in their designed, carved out of exactly as much steel, carbon fibre, and glass required to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. Others are exercises in fluidic sculpture committed to automotive form, vehicles that are delightful to the eye …

The 2013 Kia Sorento offers us a glimpse at the future of the crossover segment. Now that buyers are largely over the novelty of a vehicle that looks like an SUV but drivers more like a car, and automakers no longer have to lure curious customers in with unusual features …