Just when you thought that Porsche couldn’t possibly manage to improve its street legal race prepared GT3 anymore, out pops the new 2022 911 GT3 and improve it they have. The naturally aspirated flat-six boxer engine now produces a phenomenal 502hp and 345 lb-ft of torque, that puts all the power down to the rear […]
Chevrolet revealed a heavily revised Bolt over the weekend, along with a new Bolt EUV that turns the electric into a 150 mm-longer crossover with new styling, though (not unusually for an EV) front-wheel drive only. The battery pack is the same 65 kWh unit as before, but Chevrolet has eked out slightly more range, […]
Welcome to the Monday Morning Racing Roundup on Tuesday. We’ll get to that Daytona 500 nonsense in a moment. But first . . . Last week was a rough one. Three superstars from the world of auto racing died: Dick Bradbeer, vice-president of marketing for Labatt back in the early 1970s when it held the rights […]
The 2022 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle slated to arrive this summer will not only offer many upgrades that owners and EV fans have asked for, but it will also cost a lot less – specifically, $6,800 less than the current Bolt starting price of roughly $45,000. As such, Chevrolet’s all-electric five-door that’s currently priced very […]
In case you haven’t been keeping up, Mazda brought four-wheel locomotion to its popular compact car in 2019. The following year, turbo power was introduced to the nameplate. These two much-appreciated add-ons gave an already stellar compact car even more endearing quality. But I’m not here to talk about the car. I’m sure this website […]
Despite its origins in this country as the purveyor of simple and affordable little Bugs and Buses, the VW brand hasn’t been featured very often in the Base Camp series. This is largely in part to their recent predilection for peddling Cherman Engineering and pricing their wares accordingly. Volkswagen plays in the compact crossover market, […]
Besides being Snoop Dogg’s one-time golfing buddy, the late Lee Iacocca was also known as the father of the Mustang, Ford’s popular sports coupe that arrived just as the first Baby Boomers were graduating from driving school. Henry Ford II was looking for a winner after the Edsel debacle and dispatched Iacocca to Europe in […]
Toyota Canada and Lyft Canada have announced a unique partnership that will see users of Lyft in Metro Vancouver get access to Toyota Mirai sedan, on of the first mass-produced hydrogen-powered vehicles, through Toyota’s KINTO Share program. This unique partnership will form part of the province of British Columbia’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions and […]
In 1994, after years of being patronized and ignored and insulted, Tony George started the Indy Racing League to compete for teams, sponsors and drivers affiliated with the established Championship Auto Racing Teams, better known as CART. George, who inherited ownership of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, had high hopes for his new championship but didn’t […]
INFINITI in Yokohama Japan teased some more information about the automaker’s upcoming INFINITI QX60. When the new vehicle makes its appearance in North American later this year, the 2022 INFINITI QX60 will come with a 295-hp, 3.5-litre V6 that will be mated to what the automakers said will be a new 9-speed automatic transmission. “The […]