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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 […]