Straight from Turkey by way of Italy comes the 2015 Ram ProMaster City ; it’s based on parent company Fiat’s Doblo van (winner of two International Vehicle of the Year awards), as popular on European roads as Ford Econolines and Chevy Expresses are on our roads here. However, vans like the Doblo ProMaster City, Ford Transit Connect and Nissan

EDIT (September 4, 2018): Corrected entry for 2019 Fiat 500X – further information to come later this year. Although most vehicles don’t go through massive changes each year, automakers typically tweak their features or add new items to freshen them up when the calendar switches over. FCA has announced what it’ll be doing for 2019, and here ar

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has revealed the company's long-term product plans for four of its main brands. While the presentation left out Chrysler and Dodge, it gave a good look at what is in store for Jeep, Ram, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati. For Jeep, the plan is for two new product launches per year. That will give the company 10 plug-in hybrids b

Every now and then, automakers transform consumer vehicles to commercial ones. (In Europe, for example, it’s possible to buy a windowless “van” version of the Ford Fiesta subcompact hatchback.) Occasionally, commercial vehicles are converted for consumer use, as is the case of Ford Transit Connect with three rows of seats inside. Although it’s p

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is recalling more than 35,000 vehicles to fix a wiring connection that could lead to a transmission malfunction. In some Chrysler 200 , Jeep Cherokee and Renegade and Ram Promaster City models, the nine-speed automatic transmission's wiring harness may have improper crimps that could cause a poor electrical con

Full-Size Cargo Vans CTKC Winner: Ford Transit Autos.ca Top Pick: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4x2 Small Cargo Vans CTKC Winner: Mercedes-Benz Metris Autos.ca Top Pick: Ram ProMaster City It wasn't until the arrival of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter , a little over a dozen years ago, that North American buyers had a van expressly d

Airbag recalls continues to be big news: as Automotive News reports that the Takata airbag scandal is about to inflate by millions more affected vehicles, Nissan has recalled more than 258,000 cars and crossovers for faulty front passenger seat airbag classification modules that could turn off the airbag even when the seat is occupied by an adu

Daimler introduced North America to the concept of a higher priced, higher quality diesel-powered Euro commercial van almost 15 years ago with the Freightliner Sprinter – which became the Dodge Sprinter and now the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. This configuration is here to test the waters for this market’s “only midsize commercial van”, in the aut

“It’s a Mercedes-Benz” I told the seven eager rugby players, all curious as to what we’d be carpooling in to the tournament. Their eyes widened. “Awesome!”, “Sweet!”, “Baller!”, “Wait, we won’t all fit!” The great challenge of filling a van with eight rugby players is our kit bags. The great joy of a repurposed city-cargo van being used as

The thing about transporting motorcycles is that it is a stressful experience. A truck will do it, but the load point is high, so you need a long ramp, and more than one person. A truck leaves the bike exposed too. Not only to the elements but to the prying eyes of nefarious thieves. So when I had to take a Kawasaki ZX10-R to Calabogie for our sup

Just when you thought – well, I thought – Genesis was going to reveal a small crossover as their next big concept, they come out of left field (well, out of New York City’s Hudson Yards on the eve of the New York Auto Show, anyway) with this: the full-EV Mint Concept. Far from a crossover or SUV of any kind, it’s a city car with an all-new design a

Quebec City changed me. Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver. I’d never been a fan of winter. Aside from the few times each year my daughter would beg us to bundle up and take her ice skating, I’ve long made a habit of sitting under blankets drinking tea and waiting for the coldest months to pass. In Quebec, though, you’ll

I thought I was going to lament the demise of the Nissan Juke more than this. Affordable and trendy in just the right ways. I always liked the Juke in a cheering-for-the-underdog sort of way. Sure, it was bug-eyed, cramped, and had next to no cargo space, but it was fun and quirky and full of character. And there was a Nismo version t

A study commissioned by German online auto parts retailer KFZTEILE24 has named five Canadian cities among the most driveable urban areas in the world , and calls Calgary Canada's most car-friendly city. The company says it started with the 500 cities with the highest number of registered vehicles, then narrowed the list down by choosing 100 urb

The AJAC EcoRun is an awesome opportunity to test the fuel-efficiency chops of a number of brand new vehicles, ranging from hybrids to EVs and everything in between. It also provides us with the rare opportunity to sample direct segment competitors back-to-back, on similar roads, and it’s an opportunity not to be wasted. This one went down to