automotive
For city life, the Smartcar is great for condo-dwellers or as a second family runabout. It’s cute and sips gas sparingly, but there are cheaper, albeit less striking-looking alternatives. It comes with a surprising number of safety features, assuaging nervous North Americans about its ability to take a punch. Certainly, … Read More
The C300 4MATIC excels at anticipation. For instance, it knows when bottoms are happy and automatically turns off seat warmers. That’s not to sound flippant: such minutiae underscores the attention Mercedes-Benz’s engineers paid to the truly important aspects of the ride. Want a touch of slip? Switch off the anti-skid … Read More
New from the ground up, the 2013 Cadillac ATS ought to make a big dent in its class. The compact luxury sedan is the biggest luxury segment. Cadillac needs to make an impression here. Yesterday was ATS’s official press launch in Canada. To celebrate we did hot laps at the … Read More
It’s been almost five years since MTV’s Pimp My Ride wrapped, bringing an end to gull-wing doors painted in all shades of metallic purple and putting a serious damper on Southern California’s headrest-mounted PlayStation industry. In 2012, the novelty of a mobile arcade equipped with million-watt subwoofers has largely subsided. … Read More
In 1953, General Motors pulled the wraps off a pure white confection of fibreglass and chrome; a two-door, two-seat convertible roadster that was pretty as a pin-up and, unfortunately, a total slug. Not to worry: a few years later they’d shoe-horn in a small-block Chevy V8 and there was no … Read More
