Features and Tips

Tips & Advice: Protect your carGet Back on the Road, Safely
This article is an advertorial brought to you by a Car Guide Partner Advanced Driver Assistance Systems or ADAS Technology associated to the windshield is becoming increasingly more sophisticated. Most new vehicles now come standard with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. These systems are intended to facilitate driving and reduce the …
Features and TipsCamping in a Pickup Bed: Yes, it’s Possible
This morning, I fell in love with a most unusual camping tent. On the morning of December 7, my colleague Sylvain Raymond and I decided to test out a promotional product that we received in November: a tent designed for pickup trucks. Interesting, right? Keep in mind that Sylvain is …
Tips & Advice: Protect your carMaintaining Great Visibility, Even During Storms
This article is an advertorial brought to you by a Car Guide Partner When buying a new vehicle, we’re often tempted to add flashy accessories, like high-end rims or tinted windows. Other features—like those designed to keep you and other road users safe—tend to get overlooked. An Aquapel windshield treatment …
TechnologyToyota Also Betting on Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles
Manufacturers can’t predict the future, but they all seem to agree that one technology alone won’t replace the internal combustion engine. During our visit to the Tokyo Auto Show, Didier Leroy, Executive Vice-President at Toyota, echoed that very sentiment. He believes that by 2050, significantly fewer cars will run purely …
Tips & Advice: Protect your carReady for winter?
This advertorial is brought to you by Groupement des assureurs automobiles (GAA) Might as well just accept it, winter’s on its way! We’ll need to adapt again to changing road conditions that can catch us off guard any time... and result in an accident despite our best efforts. Should this …
Tips & Advice: Protect your carChoosing the Right Rust Protection
This article is an advertorial brought to you by a Car Guide Partner Fall is drawing to a close and winter is right around the corner. Time to put away the summer mats, take out the snow tires and maybe even get the car rustproofed. Canadians have a lot more …
Technology2019 Porsche Cayenne: Progressive Style and Technological Innovation
German designers rarely make radical changes, favouring constant evolution over revolution. Case in point: the new Porsche Cayenne. For further proof, look no further than BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen! The 2019 Cayenne is brand new, although it doesn’t appear to be at first glance. Upon closer examination, however, you’ll notice …
MechanicalMercedes-AMG Project One: An F1 for the road
Never before have we come so close to driving a street-legal Formula 1 car on Canadian roads. The mad geniuses at AMG, the high-performance division of Mercedes-Benz, are working behind closed doors on a new hypercar codenamed “Project One.” From what we can gather, this will be a real F1 …
TechnologyGeneral Motors Doubles Down on Diesel
“I know that month very well—September 2015,” exclaims Dan Nicholson, General Motors Vice President, Global Propulsion Systems, when asked about its prior diesel product planning cycle. Back then, Chevrolet featured a 2.0-litre Cruze diesel engine and was getting ramped up for a big North American push. That all changed in …
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