Driving

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Mini expands their lineup, for better and for worse I'm rather fond of the Mini Cooper S.

LAST Sunday, the skies above the North Shore were steel-grey and heavily pregnant with rain. They loomed ominously, threatening a deluge of the sort that bounces fat raindrops three feet off the pavement and sends folks scurrying for shelter.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird. 250 horsepower. Six-speed manual transmission. Buick. (Wait, what?) Let's play a wordassociation game. Ready? "Buick.

GOOD morning class, settle down please and take your seats. Thank you, that's better. Today we are going to be talking about something very few of you appear to be aware of.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Fiat and Mazda partner up on MX5-based Alfa-Romeo To say that I love the latest iteration of the Mazda MX-5 would be a bit of an understatement.

IN 1987, I WAS NINE. It was the era of Lego sets, cap guns, Optimus Prime and Thundercats. The Indiana Jones movies were still good, Jar-Jar Binks had yet to ruin Star Wars, and Justin Bieber wasn't even born yet. It was a magical time.

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird: Carroll Shelby, 1923-2012 Summertime's comin' to Vancouver, and as cherry blossom drifts swirl across deserted streets early on a Sunday morning, the garage doors open and the cla

THE new BMW M5 is one heck of a machine. Face-melting acceleration. Internal-organ-rearranging cornering. Brain-boggling top speed. It is in every way superior to all the M5s that came before. Except for one thing.

BUONGIORNO. Now, before we get started, I think it's important to examine the stereotypes one might hold about Italian people.

"NOW remember, we're in the Itchy lot." So said the sage Homer J. Simpson, and as the camera panned back to show that there were, in fact, only two mammoth parking lots (the other being the Scratchy lot, of course), we all got the joke.