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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Test Drive: 2005 Hyundai Tiburon 4 Cylinder
Model tested not exactly as shown. Photos: Hyundai Canada. Click image to enlarge Review and photos by Laurance Yap It was actually at a Honda-Acura presentation a couple of weeks ago that I learned that Hyundai Tiburon sales – which … Continue reading
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Lots to ogle in L.A. and Detroit
By Tony Whitney Discuss this story in the forum at CarTalkCanada The holiday season will have barely finished before the 2006 auto show season begins in early January. At the Los Angeles auto show, vehicles will be unveiled to the … Continue reading
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Motoring Memories: Chevrolet Corvair Spyder Turbocharged
Story and photo by Bill Vance Click image to enlarge The compact Corvair, which Chevrolet introduced in 1960, had an aluminum, horizontally-opposed (flat), air-cooled six-cylinder engine located in the rear, and four wheel independent suspension. This put it away out … Continue reading
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Test Drive: 2006 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG
Click image to enlarge Review and photos by Michael La Fave It’s too bad that Mercedes – AMG rather – abused the ‘HAMMER’ moniker in the mid-to-late-eighties. AMG HAMMERs were the big daddy super-saloons of their time, but engineers could … Continue reading
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Auto Tech: 2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Synergy Drive
By Jim Kerr 2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Photo: Paul williams. Click image to enlarge Every year, a panel of experts from the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) vote for the best new automotive technology presented to them by manufacturers … Continue reading
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Test Drive: 2006 BMW 323i
Review and photos by Jil McIntosh Discuss this story in the forum at CarTalkCanada Find this vehicle in Autos’s Classified Ads Most of us, when we go car shopping, have to keep a certain budget in mind, and once we … Continue reading
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Test Drive: 2006 Pontiac G6 GTP Coupe
Test vehicle not exactly as shown. Click image to enlarge By Laurance Yap Discuss this story in the forum at CarTalkCanada Find this vehicle in Autos’s Classified Ads To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to be excited by this GTP … Continue reading
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Feature: What’s in a name?
By Paul Williams Finding a name for a new car must be getting more difficult. After all, we’ve had over 100 years of cars, each with a distinctive name, and maybe the good ones are running out. Let’s not forget … Continue reading
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First Drive: 2006 Toyota RAV4
Click image to enlarge Review and photos by Paul Williams Discuss this story in the forum at CarTalkCanada Find this vehicle in Autos’s Classified Ads Looking at the 2006 Toyota RAV4, it’s hard to believe that this is an evolution … Continue reading
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Adaptive cruise control
Wolfsburg, Germany – We are racing down the autobahn at 230 km/h in a Volkswagen Phaeton when a car slides into the lane ahead, prompting our luxurious Volkswagen sedan to gently slow itself down enough to maintain a safe distance … Continue reading
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Motoring Memories: Ford Fiesta, 1978-1980
1979 Ford Fiesta. Click image to enlarge Story and photo by Bill Vance After a quarter century of unprecedented expansion and prosperity, the North American industry found itself in a new game with profoundly changed rules in the 1970s. The … Continue reading
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Feature: Subcompacts under $15,000
Cover photo by Grant Yoxon Discuss this story in the forum at CarTalkCanada By Jeremy Cato There’s good news for buyers looking for a new car that starts under $15,000. Three completely redesigned subcompacts were introduced for the 2006 model … Continue reading
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Used Vehicle Review: Mercedes-Benz ML-Class, 1998-2005
For the longest time, if you wanted to go off-roading in a Mercedes-Benz, your best bet would have been to park an S-class on your front lawn. Or, you could have imported a Gelandewagen – essentially the German equivalent to the Hummer H1 – which Mercedes officially brought to North America only in 2002. Continue reading
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