The 2021 Honda CMX1100 Rebel is a new middleweight cruiser that starts with a parallel-twin motor out of the storied Africa Twin adventure bike. Yup, a new cruiser coming to a segment that’s supposedly on the ropes. American Honda is still hanging on to the Fury and a couple of Shadows; but Honda Canada has […]
This all started about three months ago when I was driving with my wife west along Skymark Avenue in Mississauga when she stopped telling me how much she loved and admired me and started yelling, “Stop! Stop!” As I’m an eyes-on-the-road-all-the-time kind of driver, I yelled back: “Stop where?” And she said, “Over there! There’s a […]
One of the things I’m proudest of in my career is that I literally “wrote the book” on safe driving. Well, co-wrote it, with Doug Mepham. It was part of what we thought was a cleverly-named program called the “Road Scholarship”, sponsored by Labatt Brewery. The content of that book formed the syllabus of a […]
Guessing which Lexus model rules the sales charts might not be too difficult given how long it has been around for and how common a sight it is on our roads. Being in continuous production since 1998 will do that. And this nameplate certainly has produced a loyal following among North American consumers during its […]
The first plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler is getting close to hitting the market, and now we know how much it will cost. The 4xe uses a 2.0L turbo-four and an integrated electric motor with a 17 kWh battery back to deliver 375 hp, 470 lb-ft of torque and an estimated 40 km electric range. Starting […]
Back in early March, when we had no idea how dramatically the world was about to change, my biggest stressor was trying to plan a Vancouver Island getaway for this past summer and finding everything was booked solid. How time changes perspective. Today, as we hunker down at home and wait for this pandemic to […]
Vic Fedeli, who’s the provincial Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, and I have a couple of things in common, among them our affection for northern Ontario. He’s a former mayor of North Bay and represents the riding of Nipissing in the legislature. I was a kid in Kapuskasing. We had a long […]
Several months ago, I talked – in this space and at length – about all the Porsche cars I’d had the privilege of driving in 2018 and ’19, before COVID-19 brought just about everything to a halt. I said, when I did a preview of the new Panamera – five models, in fact, ranging from […]
Who could have predicted that one of the industries that would benefit most from a global pandemic would be automotive? The ability to keep a distance from others was a make-or-break factor in keeping our loved ones and us safe in 2020. Not only did our cars preserve our health this year, but they also […]
This year, 2020, was dreadful. COVID-19 brought the world to its knees and only the arrival of vaccines brought a smile to faces. But, believe it or not, there was a bright side to COVID. Because people had to stay home, they had to make their own fun. They had to restrict their weekend getaways […]