Driving

Five a.m. Breath misting in the cabin as the heater works hard to wake up in the cold. One slim sliver of moon hanging overhead, a paring cast aside from some celestial lathe. The hum of the engine. The whir of the tires on damp asphalt.

A biweekly round-up of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Porsche will sell manual GT3 Of all the variants of 911 sold by Porsche, the GT3 is the most track-focused. Apart from the GT3 RS, that is, which is even more expensive.

BMW has M. Audi has RS. Mercedes-Benz has AMG. And what of normally mild-mannered Lexus? Well, they like to drop the F-bomb. Say hello to the GS-F, a rear-drive sport sedan with styling by axe-attack and a 467 horsepower naturallyaspirated V-8.

Like many a gearhead, I’m not above jumping on Google on a Saturday morning and browsing the car ads for something with the word “collectible” in the description.

What's sweeter than la dolce vita? Why, a double gelato scoop of retro-nostalgia of course. Say hello to the latest flavour of cutesy fun from Italy, the 1957 edition Fiat 500.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Camaro 1LE returns to eat Mustangs Camaro: a small vicious animal that eats Mustangs.

This week's big business argle-bargle is the decision whether or not to bail out Bombardier. Canada's largest aerospace manufacturer is in real trouble, and is looking to lay off as many as 7,000 people over the next two years.

It's no surprise that a gasoline-electric-powered RAV4 has been added to the Toyota lineup. The only real surprise is that there hasn't been one available sooner.

Scion is dead. In an official statement this week, Toyota indicated that their youth-oriented subbrand would be "transitioning back to Toyota." In other words, they'll be chiselling off the badges down at the dock: the experiment is officially over.

When the Honda Civic first puttered onto Canadian roads, it had the place pretty much all to itself. Cute as it may have been, that original Civic was the pointy end of a wedge, the harbinger of an invasion.