Tests and Features

There are many different types of sports cars. England gave birth to lightweight and nimble roadsters such as the MG TD, the Austin-Healey 3000, the Lotus Super 7 and the Jaguar XK120. The long-gone musclecar era left us the Chevrolet Camaro, the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger, while the …

I won’t shy away from the fact that I love the Subaru WRX and WRX STI. I first drove a new WRX 16 years ago and it left such an impression on my psyche that I bought a used one a few years later. I still have and drive it …

The sporty compact segment was thriving a few years ago, as the Chevrolet Cobalt SS and the Dodge Caliber SRT4 were duking it out on the American front, while the Mazdaspeed3, the Honda Civic Si and the Volkswagen Golf GTI were the big players to bring down. Today, sales aren't …

How time flies, and a good sign that summer is winding down is the Subiefestival held in the ICAR Circuit in Mirabel, Quebec. A slight difference compared to last year is that the cars were displayed around the main track and the facility’s new buildings, in which we find, among …

The Subaru BRZ is a sports car blessed with exceptional handling and perfect balance, but its major shortcoming is a cruel lack of midrange torque from its naturally aspirated, 2.0-litre engine. In the last few years, Subaru often mentioned the possibility of eventually giving the BRZ a turbocharged engine upgrade.

The word kaizen is a fusion of the Japanese words “kai,” meaning “change,” and “zen” which means “better,” loosely translated in English as “improvement.” Kaizen applies perfectly to the 2017 Subaru BRZ, as the brand’s engineers applied a round of enhancements to their sports car, without however fixing its main …

The Car Guide is headed to the Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit on Canada’s West Coast this week to get a firsthand look at the changes made to the Subaru BRZ. Since its introduction in 2012, some 55 000 units of this sports car have been sold worldwide. Even though distribution …

A few years ago, Subaru’s advertising campaign was aimed at reminding consumers that they were in fact a Japanese automaker, and not Korean or Chinese, not that there was anything wrong with that… While on that crusade, Subaru made a big decision to behave more like a Japanese automaker. You …

HIGH RIVER, Alberta – If the name of this small southern Alberta town rings a bell, it’s because it was all over the news three years ago when a massive flood almost wiped the 13 000-citizen community right off the map. In these three short years, High River has managed …