The Central Voice

You don’t really see the accordion much anymore. The squeeze box or concertina is played by compressing or expanding a set of bellows while pressing buttons or keys. You may not see it online or on a concert often, but I’ll bet ...

You don’t often see the words Corolla and sport in the same sentence. At least not under this byline. But Toyota has gone and created a sporty Corolla. It is not labelled as such, but the hatchback version of the new Corolla, with a six-speed ...

With summer soon to arrive, holiday travel plans are on many minds. Whether just going to a nearby park or travelling across the country, there are many vehicles that will be pulling trailers. Your trailer may be carrying a small boat or ...

Honda has had an on-again, off-again kind of relationship with hybrids over the past two decades. This year marks the manufacturer’s third attempt at making the Insight the successful model it seemingly believes it can be. They do say that the ...

A few days in a resort on the shore of Lac Beauport, 15 kilometres north but a world away from downtown Quebec City, was a proper place to recharge mind and body. The only caveat was the 10 hour-a-day commitment to help out with the ride and drive ...

Now that Ford has decided to stop producing cars, for the most part, it can concentrate on trucks and utility vehicles. Goodness knows it has enough of the latter! From the tiny EcoSport to the gargantuan Expedition, there are five: EcoSport, ...

More Canadians than ever are considering electrified vehicles these days, which we’ll define here as hybrid electric vehicles (or HEVs, like the Toyota Prius or Ford Fusion hybrid), plug-in hybrid vehicles (or PHEVs, like the Mitsubishi ...

The Subaru Forester has a history of satisfying consumers who want a reliable, long-lasting compact vehicle. This is especially true in those parts of the continent that have a real winter, where the standard all-wheel drive and added ground ...

QUEBEC — Some hardcore fixed-wing aviators describe a helicopter as 100,000 parts moving in loose formation. Last week, that thought came to mind many times as we managed the national media launch of Chevrolet’s all-new Blazer crossover ...

Subaru recently took the cover off of their latest utility vehicle to show the world what the next-generation 2020 Subaru Outback will look like. The incoming next-generation version of the Japanese automaker’s high-clearance wagon is ...