The gods of top-down motoring were smiling that late October day when I met with keyboardist Christina Melanie, she in her 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia ragtop, and me in a 2017 VW Beetle Classic Convertible . It was warm, sunny, and the fall colours in beautiful Halton Hills were in full display. The Beetle is all about the cruise, with a fa

Ferrari Quebec, Montreal's flagship dealer in Italian exotics, has had one of its busiest years thanks to the rapidly growing Maserati lineup that now takes up significant floor space in its 45,000-square-foot facility.  It's neither a Ferrari nor a Maserati that brought me to their Jean Talon location this past week, however – it was actually a th

It's an import with a domestic badge. A sports car from a different continent. One that's a legend back home but not so well known on this side of the pond. That makes it unique and a little cooler, because this isn't one that's likely to be recognized by everybody. It's a 1974 Mercury Capri. And this one's got some cool period modifications that s

Imagine it's the early 70s, and you've got a dream to build a sports car unlike anything else on the market. You've already got the Batmobile under your belt, thanks to a collaboration with famed customizer George Barris, and you run into a self-made millionaire who's known for jump-starting Subaru of America. You build a few prototypes, snag a hug

There was a video game back in 2000: I had played many racing-themed video games up until that point; Gran Turismo , Need for Speed, and so on – but this one was different. It was a little more focussed, a little more for the connoisseur, one might say. It was called Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed and as the title suggests, it featured one

It's a classic off-roader that's a bit of an alternative to the usual classic off-roaders. It's a very bright blue and this 1974 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser is our autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week. When it comes to off-roading, the North American standard has been the Jeep for as long as most people can remember. Short wheelbase, loads of suspension

The thrill of finding an unexpected prize surely unlocks the biggest rush of dopamine short of bungee-jumping into a Whistler canyon. The sight of Indiana Jones clawing his way through dusty caverns and the Well of Souls on his way to securing the Ark, after all, has triggered countless imaginations since the film dropped 40 years ago. But that

Countach. Rampage. Autozam. Citroen DS. GT4. Beetle. Ferrari. Lotus. Defender. Falcon. Lagonda. Delorean. Century. Spirit R. It's been a wild, weird year, spanning everything from a tiny gullwinged kei car with 65 hp to a brand new be-decalled McLaren to the original Mercury Marquis from the original Hawaii 5-0 . Well, that's me: Mr. Bad Ide

It’s 2016, and no year can begin without a few ‘best’ lists, so we looked back over our Finds of the Week to find which were the most popular, as well as our own personal favourites. Some we found surprising, unlikely heroes like the Subaru Sambar and a subtle yet gorgeous Alfa Romeo classic, while it's no surprise to see a Corvette, a GT-R, a La

It's often said that Jerry Seinfeld didn't get into car collecting for the profit. That’s good, because while many might wonder how anyone could pay $3,000,000 US for an old race car you can hardly drive, much of his collection fetched far less at auction than expected. CNBC reports that originally, the total haul of the collection was projected

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

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

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

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