Driving

Hockey fans may know that a hockey puck in summer is soft and pliable to the touch, but on the ice it becomes quite firm and rigid.

The dark mornings ahead are soon to involve scraping windows and cold steering wheels.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Volvo sends world’s longest bus to Brazil As clean-running as electric vehicles are, the most efficient way to transport people around is in mass-transit solutions like the bus.

This is the car I would buy tomorrow with my own money.

Last week found me living as a TV detective on the outskirts of Los Angeles. I’m not sure what my show was called (can I get a crime-solving dog named Cheese? Mac and Cheese? Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. on NBC), but there I was anyway.

Delivering more of what today’s buyers are demanding, Audi completely redesigned the Q7 to make it an outstanding luxury SUV. The 2017 Q7 is sleeker and more stylish than before, and it is also significantly lighter.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Quebec sets EV mandates La belle province proved itself forward looking this week, announcing plans to have 100,000 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles on the roads by 2020.

This is the end. As the electrified, autonomous future beckons, the internal combustion engine finds itself on borrowed time, particularly a big, naturally aspirated V-10 like the one at the heart of this beastly Audi.

In person, the new Alfa Romeo Giulia sedan looks great. Pictures don’t do it justice: in person, sheetmetal that looks a little overwrought in photos seems to smooth out, and the signature triangular grille looks less awkward. Alfa Romeo is back.

As Nissan rolls out radically redesigned models, its best-selling vehicle in North America – the Altima – also adopts a fresh new look.