Dawn on the Pacific Rim. A sleeping city dozes past the sunrise, blissfully unaware of a subterranean rumbling. A monster awakens in a concrete basement, a beast of legendary ferocity, a kaiju of colossal power. Godzilla is coming. Oh hey, looks like he's bringing his dog along for the ride too. Before, the highest trim Stagea made 276 h

The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week might be good for what ails you. Make that good for what hails you. It's one of the most recognizable cars in the world, even though it was never sold in North America. It's a London Black Cab. A 1998 TX1 taxi. The London Taxi Company goes all the way back to 1919. When Robert Jones bought out the coachbuilding

It's one of the big check boxes on the car enthusiast bucket list: Owning an engine with 12 cylinders. You're here for that engine To experience the smoothness, the effortless power, and the bragging rights you get when your friends see that V12 badge on the front fender. And thanks to depreciation, you can put a big German V12 in you

Our Find of the Week this week is a bit of an interesting import. It looks like an average late '90s luxury sedan. But underneath that façade is the heart of a real sports car. It's a 1998 Toyota Aristo. The second-generation of the Lexus GS arrived in Canada at the end of 1997. It followed up a car that was penned by Italdesign Giugiaro but had

Later today, Chevrolet will reveal the convertible version of the mid-engine Corvette. The 2020 model that will draw more eyeballs in the next few years than any Corvette ever built. Almost. The autoTRADER.ca Find of the Week this week is a Corvette that might just manage to get more attention than the mid-engine car will get. It's a 1998 Chevrolet

The mighty Nissan Skyline GT-R is a legendary beast, so dominant on the racing circuit that an Australian motoring journalist would dub the first twin-turbo monster “Godzilla”. The name stuck for generations, and while we in Canada would have to wait fifteen years for grey market importation rules before the GT-R would stomp its way to our shores,

Vehicle Type Crossover SUV History/Description Back in 1998, Mercedes helped pioneer the luxury SUV scene with their ML series. This machine helped kick off a new vehicle genre that was quickly joined by a flood of competition from around the globe. And, as the full-size posh-ute scene got rolling, shoppers started demanding the capability

The debate over the best vehicle to take to the track has raged on for as long as people have been going to race tracks. With this week's Find of the Week, we think we might just have found the best one of all. Only this one isn't for going around the track, it's for getting the things that go around somewhere they can go around. At some point,

British sports car companies have always had a very turbulent history. New models bring them up, and a lack of reliability, money, and building the same car for far too many years bring them back down. Colin Chapman's Lotus Cars has gone through this boom and bust cycle more than most. Since the company's founding in 1952, there have been multiple

In 1998 BMW acquired the rights to use the Rolls-Royce brand name, logo, Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament and grille shape. In 2003 an all-new facility opened on the grounds of the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, England. Since then, the fortunes of this once foundering prestige automaker have taken a remarkable turn. We visited this factory that in

Vehicle Type Performance Coupe History/Description The NSX wasn’t a car anyone bought to have the fastest supercar on their block. Launched 1990 and battling the likes the Porsche 911, Ferrari 355, Dodge Viper, Lotus Esprit and Chevrolet Corvette in its lifetime, all models got a VTEC V6 engine smack in the middle, making between 250 and 3

In 1998, I’d just started my dubious car-journalist career by writing a string of reviews of new vehicles a typical university student could afford - 14 road tests of cars with an MSRP under $20,000, and every one of them with four cylinders and front-wheel drive, prioritizing economy and reliability. Because of that, I don’t actually recall how I

Our Find of the Week this week is fast and furious. It's not lime green, but it has one bottle. And it's a big one. This Eagle Talon has been extensively modified to go fast and make lots of power. The name Eagle Talon might not ring a bell for all buyers, especially younger ones, but you will know the name of its more famous sibling. That's bec

For a brief, shining moment, Steven Seagal was, if not the biggest action star on the planet, then at the very least in the conversation. Unfortunately for him (and fans of Aikido around the world), that wrinkle in time was lodged firmly in the 1990s, and by the time the Millennium rolled around Hollywood had moved on, leaving Seagal to explore the

In 2015, Mazda showed the RX-Vision concept at the Tokyo auto show, a prototype of a rotary-powered sports that would have succeeded the RX-8 , which was discontinued after 2011. It also would have proven definitively that Mazda was the only auto manufacturer stubborn (or crazy) enough to try to improve on the rotary engine, which is a fantastic