The two things I wanted to do after finishing engineering school at U of T were race cars, and play in a rock ‘n’ roll band. The two things I swore I’d never do were to teach, or have anything to do with computers. Within six years of graduation, I was racing cars, playing in […]

In the early days, some car companies didn’t have auto-making in their mission statement. Sweden’s Saab was originally an aircraft maker. Of the 16 engineers tasked with designing its first automobile, only one possessed a driver’s licence. France’s Peugeot made coffee grinders to start, then expanded into bicycles. Mazda was a purveyor of cork products […]

The next-gen Buick Envision promises to deliver more style, luxury and technology when it begins to arrive in Canadian dealerships near the end of the first quarter. The compact five-passenger SUV, which originally went on sale in the summer of 2016, is all-new for 2021 and sports a fresh design, a new powertrain and new […]