Trucks and SUVs have been dominating the sales charts lately. I personally don't understand why. I'm not necessarily opposed to trucks and SUVs I just wholly believe that the majority of owners don't need them. The amount of half-tonnes I see being used to take children to school...
They said we needed something borrowed and something blue. Thanks to Audi Canada, we had killed two birds with one stone on the week of our wedding day.
If you are an avid CarDriven.ca reader (and thank you if you are), you might know that the Mazda MX-5...
Even though I admit that I have a perhaps questionable soft spot for Mitsubishis, according to research conducted by Mitsubishi, I’m not necessarily the target of their latest effort. The new Eclipse Cross has been on sale for a year now, but already Mitsubishi is noticing that it’s...
I recently drove the redesigned Mazda3 sedan. It was equipped with an automatic transmission and all-wheel drive – the latter being a first for Mazda’s compact offering.
I personally came away quite impressed and described it as premium feeling with a top of class interior. It felt...
When I was about ten years old I remember being quite excited because dad was in need of a new car. That meant that I got to tag along while he visited dealer after dealer. In fact, he brought the whole family with him since a family car...
In the automotive industry these days, all you hear is SUVs this and pick-up trucks that. Certain automakers are betting heavily in these segments and it’s getting to the point where you’d think there is no room anymore for the traditional passenger car.
Nuts to that, says Volkswagen....
While I am certainly not a market analyst, I still find myself questioning the recent move by Ford and GM to ax selected passenger cars in their lineups. In Ford’s case, every single traditional car will be removed from the North American line-up, save for the Mustang. Apparently we are all...
While SUVs may not be at the top of my vehicle preference list, I do somewhat have an appreciation for large, full-size SUVs because the majority of them are still proper SUVs. What’s a proper SUV? It’s one that has a body-on frame, or rides on a truck platform. The common...
All it took was about a 20 kilometer trip behind the wheel of Mazda’s new compact sedan before I was able to form a rather pointed first impression.
“Well, you’ve certainly matured,” I said to myself after parking in my driveway.
Mazda3’s of the past...
On the grand scale of things Canada is quite a minor player when it comes to automotive market share. We buy about two million new vehicles per year. Compare that to the Americans and the Australians who buy more than double that amount.
However, despite our relatively...