The road is perfection, a twisting ribbon that follows the path of the river, flowing along its bank with much the same jounce, wriggle, ripple, and run. Across the way, you can see the main road, the straight route, fast-moving traffic pulsing along it in bunches. Here though, we're alone, and together. The road is perfection. The weather is

Originally published on Autos.ca on May 4, 2015 ( Road Trip: The Spring Thaw in My Father’s 1967 MGB ) The road is perfection, a twisting ribbon that follows the path of the river, flowing along its bank with much the same jounce, wriggle, ripple, and run. Across the way, you can see the main road, the straight route, fast-moving traffic pulsing

Review by Brendan McAleer. Photos courtesy Autoform Performance. There's the best-selling two-seat open roadster in the world – and then there's the car that inspired it. Sure, (nearly) everybody loves the Miata , but its success comes in standing on the shoulders of giants. Teeny-tiny skinny little giants. This is the Lotus Elan , perhaps

St. John's, Newfoundland – Targa Newfoundland is a week-long rally on the public roads of the friendliest province in Canada. It is a demanding rally, covering over 1,600 kilometres of roads traversing the province through various small towns and communities; the roads are closed and the Targa cars blast through the stages as fast as they possibly

It's impossible, of course. That Toyota, maker of such worthy yet unremarkable appliances as the humble Corolla could pull this liquid red sportscar out of the ether. Is it more beautiful than an E-type? Maybe, maybe not; maybe it's the incredible rarity that makes the 2000GT seem so special. Sitting there beneath the cherry blossoms, the breath ca

He gained fame playing Julian, an ex-con and one of the iconic Trailer Park Boys in the classic, cult TV series. Now, actor John Paul or "JP" Tremblay is back on the big screen. This time, he’s playing himself in the new flick, Swearnet . It follows the true story of his adventures with co-stars Mike Smith and Robb Wells – aka Bubbles and Ricky

Let’s face it; try as they might, the rest of the American Big Three have never quite been able to build a car that brings instant credibility to a movie car chase like the Mustang. Sure, sure – vehicles like the Dodge Challenger and Chevrolet Corvette have come close, but you can count the notable chases those have been involved in on one hand. Th

As Jon Snow’s direwolf would probably say (if it were both able to speak and a tennis fan from 21 st -century Earth instead of a pet from a fictitious medieval planet) Wimbledon is Coming . Wimbledon is arguably the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament and is famous for its white-or-nothing dress code. One which is strictly enforced. To c

Will Volkswagen's reputation overcome the lasting stain of the diesel scandal? Surely, this must be one of the worst skeletons in the closet for any car company to have. Actually... wait a minute. Today, the Volkswagen Beetle is a fun little front-driver that you can order as a pink convertible. Its origins, however, are basically pure evil. Ori

With interest rates at banks low, investors are looking for stable alternatives to build their money. Now a new report says that bankers in Germany are suggesting an alternative we can really get behind: classic German cars. Jens Berner, a vintage car expert for Suedwestbank AG, told Bloomberg  that "for customers with more than one million eur

All 36 Corvettes will be restored to running condition and resold In 1989, VH1 decided to do something unimaginable: accumulate 36 Corvettes, one for each year America's sports car had been manufactured, and give them away to one lucky viewer via a 900 phone number contest. And the best part of this story is it only gets more outrageous. Den

Remember that kid at the back of your high school math class – the one whose mother dressed him every day, who always seemed to have the right answer on every pop quiz, and who you never would have noticed had he not later gone on to become CEO at a Fortune 500 company, rubbing it in your face at your 25th year reunion? There are cars and trucks

A Rolls-Royce Phantom V famously owned by the late John Lennon is travelling from its home at a Victoria, B.C. museum to the UK to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album release. Later this month, the car will be shipped to London, where it will be displayed at Bonhams Auction House from J

When Ferruccio Lamborghini first saw the engine that was to power his cars, he was furious. Engineering genius Giotto Bizzarrini, the man who shaped the Ferrari 250 GTO , had been given the task of creating a twelve-cylinder engine to rival Ferrari, but one built for the road. Clearly, this 3.5L 60-degree V-12 was a racing engine – its 11,000-rpm

If you wandered through the New York World's Fair in 1964, Instamatic in hand, you would have seen all sorts of weird and wonderful glimpses of the future. An all-singing, all-dancing revue of folks dressed up like molecules? That was there. Exposed fusion reactor? Yep, that too. A dishwasher-like appliance that shredded your dirty plastic plates a