hybrid
It’s designed to lure the Holy Grail customer that every manufacturer’s chasing. He lives in the city and she wants the all-in-one roomy/compact SUV that drives like a sports sedan, comfortably fits their friends while making them envious — all while saving the world from choking on gas fumes. Enter … Read More
Many car manufacturers see electric as the future of the automotive industry; BMW’s among the leaders. Their splendid new plug-in electric hybrid, the 2018 530e xDrive is the 5-series’ first foray into the company’s iPerformance portfolio. My family enjoyed one during the recent holidays, which were abnormally cold. It’s impossible to … Read More
Be forewarned: even 4 years after its introduction, the first generation BMW i8 plug-in hybrid turns heads in the street, and vacuums up the attention of any gear-heads on the road. It’s simply gorgeous from every angle. With BMW’s almost messianic devotion to achieving both greenness and performance, the i8’s … Read More
Anybody growing up before the turn of the century probably had their own ideas of what things might look like by the time, say, the year 2020 came along. Besides toys like tablets and smartwatches, it’s quite likely these ideas included—if not hovercars—at least some fancy new method of powering … Read More
By now, you’ve seen the ads. Certainly, Toyota Canada’s Managing Director Stephen Beatty hopes that you’ve seen them — he admitted that the 2012 Camry campaign is the “biggest spending launch in our history.” This disclosure came last month, when Beatty and a complement of Toyota engineers and publicists spent a few … Read More
