Ford of Canada has named a new president and CEO. 25-year company veteran Bev Goodman is taking over the office, responsible for the automaker’s more than 8,000 employees in this country. She’s the fourth CEO of Ford Canada since 2017, and that shows an interesting picture of where the Canadian arm of the company stands […]
When you talk about Lexus, you have to talk about the LS. It’s the model that launched the Lexus nameplate in North America, establishing a brand which stood for luxury, refinement, technological advancement and reliability. These classic LS 400 cars are the million-mile Lexus’ that we see on YouTube today. Back in 1990, the Lexus […]
There are several things to get out of the way before getting to this week’s column. Last week, I used the first part of this column to talk about a new sports car racing series that is opening for business this season. It is challenging the established Canadian ‘Touring Car Championship for cars and sponsors. I […]
The pinnacle of performance at Lexus has been the F badge for a few generations now, and while the V8-powered performance cars that have worn that badge have been gone for a while, a new report says that they’re coming back. Japanese auto mag Best Car says that the IS, LS, and LC could all […]
For the 2021 model year, Nissan has completely revamped its smallest car. New styling and a new interior bring the Versa in line with the rest of its offerings, a serious upgrade from what looked like a battered Beirut taxi not long ago. These days, it can be difficult to tell the Versa apart from […]
Nissan has announced that its new Nissan Kicks is now on sale in Canada and starts, with the Kicks S model, at $19,898 CAD. This New 2021 Nissan Kicks comes with new styling and design elements such as a Double V-motion front grille, bumper, LED headlights and LED fog lights. Customers will now get two […]
No one can predict the future or say with total certainty which cars will end up being widely desirable in the future. 20 years ago, who could have predicted the explosion in price of mid-90s Japanese sport compacts? What soothsayer of the late 1970s had the foresight to predict the skyrocketing prices of ‘60s American […]
In this life, timing is everything – almost. Take General Motors. In December, I had a chat with Scott Bell, GM Canada’s president and managing director, about the resumption of fossil fuel-powered light-trucks manufacturing at the rejuvenated GM plant in Oshawa. Literally a day or two later, GM announced it would spend a billion dollars […]
Prominent “Frontier” script on tailgate in-keeping with current pickup trends Can you believe it’s been almost eleven years since we saw significant change in the Frontier? And even then, the change was little more than skin deep and was otherwise a carryover from when the Frontier was last given a full redesign for the 2005 […]
Later this summer, Nissan Canada will give Canadians a whole new Pathfinder experience. In a for media-only digital reveals Nissan Canada executives showcased the new 2022 Nissan Pathfinder that sees this fifth-generation SUV re-invented from the ground up with a more modern design, a more powerful engine with greater towing capacity and a more refined […]