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Light, efficient, fast new models with rear- or all-wheel drive feature brand-new 90-degree Porsche V6, standard PDK gearbox Following the successful launch of the Panamera last fall, Porsche AG today announced an expansion of the model range. On sale in Canada this summer, the V6-powered Panamera and Panamera 4 will …

Jeep takes a lot of pride in their “Trail Rated” badge. Sure, the notion of Jeep testing their own vehicles’ off-road capability might be a little self-serving, but we’ve found no reason to doubt those Jeep’s that are so endowed with the Trail Rated badge. After all, the current Cherokee, …

Production resumed today as planned on all production lines at Canadian Toyota manufacturing facilities. Last Thursday, February 4, vehicle deliveries of the eight Toyota models identified in the January 21 recall notice resumed at Toyota Dealerships across the country. The affected accelerator pedals on new vehicles at Toyota dealerships have …

For a lot of sports car fans operating on minivan budgets, video games offer a blessed relief from the mediocrity occupying their driveway, and few of these games have as big a following as Gran Turismo. Sony’s biggest Playstation racing title, the franchise had been wildly popular prior to the …

For a brand that once considered the sales of roadgoing vehicles a means to support a racing empire, Ferrari’s recent decisions to move the brand into lower and lower price brackets has come as something of a shock to the system. With the V8 cars ushering in a new era …

As if the unintended acceleration “crisis” (Toyota’s word, not ours) wasn’t bad enough, Toyota’s Prius has come under fire for an issue with its regenerative braking system. During braking, the Prius relies on two braking systems to bring the hybrid to a standstill. The first, its regenerative system, basically kicks …

Toyota has, for decades, been an unshakeable rock of an automotive empire. Built on reliable, crowd-pleasing cars like the Corolla and Camry, they have never been considered anything less than superb at the job they do. And this has led the Japanese brand to world domination, recently overthrowing General Motors …

Toyota Motor Corp. has been hit by over 100 complaints in the U.S. and Japan about brake problems with the popular Prius hybrid, the latest in a spate of quality troubles for the automaker as it grapples with massive global recalls. The Japanese company's sales are being battered in the …

Tesla has filed with the federal government in hopes of making an initial public offering of Tesla stock. The first I.P.O. filing from an American car company since Henry Ford filled out the same paperwork in 1956, the Tesla offering is, as yet, an unknown quantity. Having sold fewer than …

If you’ve been following a couple of Britain’s better known products lately, you know that they’re only just beginning to reap the dividends of years’ worth of design and production development. Having finally posted some profits (albeit negligible), the two brands have a few models showing some promise, with more …