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It was only recently that Toyota reported the first loss in their 71-year history. Totalling an astronomical, $7.87 billion US, Toyota’s loss in the last quarter is even higher than that posted by their madly-cost-cutting competitor, GM. Although murmurings of dissent in Toyota’s financial department were seeing the light of …

Chevy’s Camaro is one extremely lust-worthy vehicle. But as much as we’d all like to be parking a Bumblebee of our own in the driveway, sadly, the hot commodity is also something of a rarity above the 49th parallel. With just a few early examples getting out to dealerships in …

Chrysler LLC wants to eliminate roughly a quarter of its 3,200 U.S. dealerships by early next month, saying in a bankruptcy court filing Thursday that the network is antiquated and has too many stores competing with each other. The company, in a motion filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in …

With production now underway, tours allow visitors to experience Panamera up-close and personal Production of the new Porsche Panamera has started at the company’s plant in Leipzig. Presented to the global public in Shanghai in April and available in Canada this October, the four-door Gran Turismo is built together with …

Suzuki’s XL7 crossover is quite simply a terribly unsuccessful vehicle. A joint venture shared with General Motors, the XL7 is essentially a slightly modified variant of the Chevrolet Equinox. Itself a slow seller, the uglier XL7 has been nearly a complete failure for a company now known for their excellent …

Auto Journalist Achieves 3.8 L/100km (74 mpg) on 218-Kilometre Drive Between Parliament Hill and Montreal's Biosphere In its last third of a cross-country tour, the "Insight Into Canada" tour left Parliament Hill Monday morning, May 11, en route to Montreal's biosphere. On April 21, during Earth Week, a 2010 Honda …

New PZEV Model Joins Powerful, Well-Equipped Forester Lineup Subaru Canada, Inc. (SCI) today announced pricing for the 2010 Forester, including the new PZEV (Partial Zero Emission Vehicle) that joins the award-winning Forester lineup for the new model year. The Forester PZEV joins the Legacy and Outback PZEV models in providing …

Number 50,000 of the second generation of Volvo C70 has been handed over to its German owner, Harald Kirschey from Olpe. The Sapphire Black convertible is featuring a D5 turbocharged diesel engine with 180 hp (132 kW) and automatic transmission, including Geartronic function. It was handed over at the dealership …

More than 203,000 people have bought the ultra-cheap Nano car in India, yielding sales of 25 billion rupees (US$512.6 million), Tata Motors said Monday. The sales are significant in a country where just 1.5 million passenger cars were sold last year _ and where the Nano was on sale only …

The economic crisis can be succinctly blamed on two things: Americans not wanting to buy houses, and Americans not wanting to buy cars. While many will exclaim that the current dismal situation is far more complex than that, the take home message delivered most recently by President Obama was that …