Steven Bochenek 
It’s Honda Indy week in Hogtown and auto writers are busily filing stories while filling up on freebies. Sand Copenhagen has arranged to host a party featuring the very hot driver, Frenchman Simon Pagenaud. At thirty years old, Pagenaud is enjoying a banner year with Grand Prix wins in Houston … Read More
Gaspé, Québec — For 80 years, Chevrolet’s been making Suburbans. At that age, you’d expect the name to be nothing more than legacy but—given the sheer girth and utility of the 2015 edition, the brand’s twelfth generation—it’s actually perspicacious. In short, the Suburban’s a good option for transporting plenty of passengers … Read More
Last year, the Mazda3 won the Auto Journalists Association of Canada’s (AJAC) Car of the Year Award for both the Best Under $21K and Best Over $21K Small Car categories. What bowled over many AJAC members, including your author, was how enjoyable these cars were to drive, period—or actually comma—because … Read More
Friday, May 9, Whistler, BC — yesterday was the close of 2014 Eco-Run, a rolling demonstration of greener auto tech in 18 new vehicles along BC’s Sea to Sky Highway from Whistler to Vancouver. For who wants to buy a new vehicle that leaves less on a carbon footprint, it’s … Read More
Thursday, May 7, Whistler, BC — Yesterday was pleasantly easy on activities. Again each AJAC (ajac.ca) journalist was arbitrarily assigned a car in the morning and another in the afternoon. Why assigned? The alternative would be a passel of car geeks constantly scrambling for the Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid. And … Read More
