Jeremy Clarkson: Does the `M' in X5 M stand for `mistake'?

Jeremy Clarkson
Toronto Star
Feb 13, 2010

As we know, the car industry is guaranteed to be out of step with any financial conditions that happen to be prevailing at the time. The world ...

Driving as far north as the gravel goes

This is a story of driving for glory in the smallest car fit for the road.

Hamilton: Zero-emission Tesla always draws a crowd

Driving around the city in a Tesla Roadster for a day, not consuming a single drop of gasoline, I found myself getting a little smug.

Rolex 24 at Daytona in pictures

Toronto photographer John Larsen attended the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona last weekend and brought back these pictures, primarily of Canadian...

BMW 535i breaks free of its past design

Peter Bleakney
Toronto Star
Feb 06, 2010

In the world of the premium mid-sized sport sedan, the arrival of a fresh BMW 5-series is no small affair. The terms icon and benchmark are freely tossed about when speaking of the 5 – a car that...

2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder: Lightweight model recalls seminal Porsches

Jim Kenzie
Toronto Star
Dec 05, 2009

The 2011 Porsche Boxster Spyder proves that the ghosts of the founders of the Porsche car company are still patrolling the hallowed ground of its facilities in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.

2010 Mazdaspeed3: Functional as well as fast

Kathy Renwald
Toronto Star
Nov 21, 2009

Three years ago when I drove a Mazdaspeed3, I thought it felt as skittish as a water bug. I was comparing it to the kind of nailed down, straitjacket handling of various German speedsters on the...

2010 Hyundai Genesis 3.8 GT: From zero to cracking

Peter Bleakney
Toronto Star
Nov 21, 2009

It takes only a few moments behind the wheel of the Genesis Coupe 3.8 GT, the most aggressive variant of Hyundai's new sculpted sports coupe, to discover the Koreans have been doing their homework.

2010 Porsche 911 Turbo: Evolution of track star

Peter Bleakney
Toronto Star
Oct 24, 2009

If Charles Darwin was formulating his theories on the evolution of species today, he could easily include a chapter or two on the Porsche 911 ( flat-sixus rapidus ).