First Drives

The Hyundai Accent needs no introduction. After making its debut in 1995, the South Korean manufacturer’s smallest car wasted little time in making a name for itself in the subcompact category. And although it was unreliable back then, the Accent has matured over the past four generations (1995-1999, 2000-2005, 2006-2011, …

STUTTGART, Germany – Seeing the growing popularity of AMG products, in Canada in particular, it isn’t surprising to see Mercedes-Benz create high-performance variants of all its model lines. Well, almost all of them. And since the North-American market in general scoops up SUVs in industrial quantities, it was only natural …

MALIBU, California – The cars that will have the hardest time adapting to our electrified future will undoubtedly be the American muscle cars. We admire these rudimentary machines for their charming character embodied in their V8 engines. Any performance enthusiast will tell you, nothing compares the instant torque and sound …

My first drive of the 2018 Volkswagen T-Roc in Portugal was without question one of the oddest press trips I’ve had the privilege to be invited to this year. After a 10-hour flight, a leg in Germany and a five-hour time change, I stayed there for only one day to …

Porsche is already unveiling a 2019 model. This move is undoubtedly to prove to its loyal clientele that it’s still a step ahead of the curve and also to taunt its rivals.And not just any model, either. It’s the Porsche Cayenne, which, much to the dismay and anguish of many …

Lamborghini’s Aventador S is a beast of a car. It is brutishly fast, sings with a bold expansive voice like Pavarotti in his heyday, and every inch of its body looks like it means business. This car is just over the top. Performance is nothing short of spectacular and the …

SHANGHAI, China – Polestar 1. That is the name of the new 600-horsepower performance hybrid created by Polestar, the Volvo Group’s performance brand. Built in part on Volvo’s Scalable Product Architecture and featuring a carbon fibre body, Polestar 1 is a 2+2 grand touring coupé outfitted with an electric performance …

SINTRA, Portugal – The third-generation X3 will arrive in Canadian dealerships late this year, and although it looks quite similar to the outgoing model, the brand’s compact crossover has changed quite a bit. The 2018 BMW X3’s overall shape is obviously an evolution over the previous generation, and it’s easy …

The fourth-generation Audi A8 is a technological tour de force . It will arrive in Canadian showrooms in the third quarter of 2018, as a 2019 model, and it will come loaded with so much technology that it will be capable of driving itself. The Audi A8 is the first …

General Motors’ Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia and Buick Enclave cousins have been updated from A to Z, and the Enclave is the last to get the shock treatment. As for the Acadia, it is splitting from its colleagues to become a “small” intermediate SUV. The two others are full-size intermediates, …