Driving

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Volvo's 450 horsepower triple-turbo two-litre Ah, Volvo. Nice people, those Swedes, what with their boxy designs, safetyfirst mantra and tractorlike durability.

There are essentially two ways to react upon being told, "No, you can't do that." The first is to accept that the odds are too great, the challenge too arduous.

You know who makes a decent cup of coffee? McDonald's. I know, I know, it's no match for that artisanal, hand-roasted, high-falutin' stuff, but as a decent cup of joe, McDonald's has really stepped up their game of late.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: A radar gun to catch texting drivers While nobody likes speed traps, what about a different sort of dragnet - one to catch texting drivers? Distracted driving is a growing cause o

Last week, I headed down to Everett to see a special car: the last Jensen Interceptor to leave the original factory just before it went bankrupt.

Dear Editor: The July 18 column by Brendan McAleer about the new speed limits needs a response.I can't disagree with him strongly enough. The raised limits are a disaster waiting to happen.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Corvette Museum fills sinkhole One of the more bizarre stories of late in the automotive realm was the sinkhole that opened up in the middle of the Corvette Museum, causing severa

When I was a kid, supercars came in an accepted shape. There weren't that many around, but you could still spot them a mile away: wedgy, low, enormous spoilers and so many vents you'd think somebody had been attacking the bodywork with an axe.

Thirty years ago, Canada got its first taste of a new kind of flavour: the hot hatchback. Released in 1976 in Europe, it took nearly a decade to reach our shores, and even then it came in a slightly watered-down version. It didn't matter.

Slow. Slow and slightly noisy. Slow and slightly noisy and incredibly boxy with so-so handling. Or, in other words: perfect.