Steven Bochenek 
The closest thing I’ve had to a man-crush over the past 10 years has been my friendship with Garry Sowerby. The king of cool, he holds several Guinness world records for circumnavigating the globe in a car. Today, November 19, 2010, he’s celebrating 30 years since setting that record. These … Read More
In September, I zipped about for a few hours in a Kia Forte Koup that had just spent a grueling week racing the Targa Newfoundland Rally. This past week I sped about the GTA in another Forte Koup. The rally Forte was mostly stock, so the differences between these drives … Read More
The bold shape of it makes all the noise you need. Most definitely not your dad’s golf cart, this completely electric roadster’s pretty much silent but deadly. No gears — just touch and go The only reason gears exist is because the automobile’s power band is too long. Consequently, with … Read More
Last month, I followed the Kia Forte Koup SX across much of Newfoundland. It was the Targa Rally and Kia had entered for the first time ever. The car I trailed the rally in, with a couple of other media types, was the Kia Rondo. Last week, I tested the … Read More
Here’s a new subcompact whose marketing is pitching hard to you kids, complete with sprinting aliens, iPhone giveaways and the opportunity to modify its ‘skin’ for a few hundred dollars more as a way to ‘express yourself’. But the Mazda2 doesn’t need all that. For the price, it’s already a … Read More
