It’s safe to say that 2020 was no regular year. Yet, despite all the doom and gloom, the world’s automakers still managed to put out some exciting new vehicles. In fact, we’d say 2020 was one of the better years for new car debuts in recent history, so let’s take a look at some of the best cars, trucks, SUVs, and crossovers that have been unveil

The average transaction price of a new vehicle in June of this year was $39,075, according to the autoTRADER.ca Price Index, so we understand if folks looking for a new car on a smaller budget feel a bit priced out of the market right now. Worry not, car shoppers, because we’re compiling lists of every vehicle on sale in Canada for under $35,000

Volkswagen has an on-again, off-again relationship with the Rabbit name in North America. Its first mass-market front-drive, water-cooled car wore the bunny badge for about 10 years before VW switched to the Golf name in the mid-1980s. The Rabbit moniker wouldn’t appear again until 2007, on a short-lived fifth-generation replacement for the Golf th

Vehicle Type Compact performance hatchback History/Description The sixth-generation Volkswagen GTI hit the Canadian market for model year 2010 with a starting price under $29,000 – bringing the popular German sports car into its latest iteration with selection to spare. Shoppers could choose hatchback body styles with three or five doors,

It’s no secret that Europe has long had access to versions of the popular Volkswagen Golf compact hatchback that Canadians could only dream about. Occasionally, however, those dreams solidify into something a little more substantial, which is how North Americans got a taste of both the e-Golf and the fabled Golf R . The vehicle I’m piloting t

Willows, CA – The 2019 Hyundai Veloster N marks the first time North American consumers get a taste of Hyundai’s N Performance brand, hitherto restricted to the racetrack and rally circuit or the roads of Europe and Australia, attached to the tailgate of the Elantra GT’s i30 cousin. That “N” branding stands for both the Veloster’s development centr

Photography by Volkswagen Canada / Lenssen Photo LAC SACACOMIE, QC – At last, it’s my turn behind the wheel, and I enthusiastically press the throttle; only to suddenly become Bambi, venturing out onto the ice for the first time. My previous trips on the makeshift driving circuit on the frozen surface of Lac Sacacomie had been while piloting a

SPLIT, Croatia – For over a decade, the new-car path into the Mercedes-Benz family in Canada has been the B-Class , a tall-ish hatchback that offers all-wheel drive and is more car than crossover. It also wasn’t available in the US – a rare and brave market move that always makes Canadian car fans feel special. By the end of 2018, the shorter and

An often-ignored reality in the horsepower wars is that once you reach a certain threshold, more isn’t necessarily better – at least not for street use. Sure, you want enough power to make the car quick and fun, but if it’s impossible to ever deploy more than 50 percent of the car’s potential for fear of losing your licence, where’s the joy in that

Volkswagen is gearing up to give its GTI an overhaul that will turn the hot hatch into a mild hybrid with electric turbocharging and more power than the current model. UK magazine Autocar says "sources close to Volkswagen" told the publication the new GTI is scheduled to reach British dealers in 2020; knowing VW's tendency to introduce its new

Volkswagen has used the massive Lake Wörthersee Volkswagen festival, starting today in southern Austria, to debut a new special edition of the GTI hot hatch. A 40th anniversary celebration for the GTI , the Clubsport S starts with a 2.0L turbocharged four that's based on the GTI TCR race car engine and ends with a front-wheel drive record breaking

First we tasted the forbidden fruit . Then we spent some time in the sure thing . Now we look at the long shot. But really, don’t hold your breath. The Volkswagen GTD is enough of a long shot that it might as well be forbidden fruit. I’ll believe it when I see it roaming the wilds of Mississauga. Nonetheless, this here is an interesting beast,

So your life is going pretty well. School seems like ages ago; you’re making great progress with your career, and all those grown up responsibilities are ostensibly mounting by the day. Why not turn your commute into something more rewarding, something interesting? Something for you . Something… better . When you’re not working, there is no s

It sure didn’t take long. Roughly ten minutes after pulling out of the Subaru lot came the first drive-by. A splay-footed Civic Si with shopping-cart wing whooshed past in an uproarious jumble of cherry-bomb flatulence and thudding bass, then executed a painfully slurred downshift to nip in front just before the on-ramp. With a big sigh, I dropped

“Mini, Mini, Mini, Mini – Mini Mini Mini Mini – MINIIIIII!” That’s my Mini song. It’s about the Mini and it is sung to the tune of the Batman theme. You might remember this from the time I drove a Mini Cooper S hatch in 2013, or the time I drove the new and revised Mini in April. Or the time we pitted it against a Fiesta ST for our own perso