From tires to tech, rust to road trips, here is all your latest automotive news and expert car buying, maintenance, and driving advice. Whether you’re hitting the road in the hottest wheels or just trying to keep your clunker street legal, we’ve got you covered.
Do a YouTube search for “Il fait beau dans l’métro” and you’ll come across a commercial featuring a charmingly utopian song-and-dance number from 1976, meant to promote the city’s then ten-year-old subway system. Thirty years later, and, outside of a major decline in leisure suits on the subway – and … Read More
Regardless of their chatter, many North Americans still love huge automobiles. They just don’t want to pay for gas and prefer to look like they’re doing something for the environment. Enter the Yukon Hybrid. It’s massive. For the chic it’s plastered with that Hybrid logo. And for the cheap it … Read More
Typically ahead of the crowd, Mazda makes good bargains. Take the 2008.5 Mazda3 Sport GX. They downsized it a bit to lower the price – just in time for Johnny Consumer’s recent Fundamental Shift in Attitude. There’s still some swagger to this sporty 5-door hatch. It’s still popular among the … Read More
The BMW X5 4.8i has a dual personality. It’s like they took the soul of a performance sport coupe and transplanted in into an SUV. This comes courtesy of the hefty V8 engine, the choice in transmissions and the sheer eggheadry of the all-wheel drive system. Performance The engine’s quiet, … Read More
We are avid cyclists at DailyXY. But we are also partisans of elegant dressing and like to show up at events oil stain-free, and preferably without our trousers bunched into our socks. This is why we were enthusiastic about test-riding the classic, old-fashioned, upright Dutch clunker called the Batavus Favoriet. … Read More
