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Repeating its accomplishments from 2018 and 2019, the Mazda CX-5 has once again earned the lofty status of a Car And Driver 10 Best winner. Only this year, accomplishing that feat was much more challenging. No longer will Car And Driver have a separate category for 10 Best Cars and another for 10 Best Trucks & SUVs. All vehicles are lumped in... Read more

This is Mazda's next big hit. The 2020 Mazda CX-30 will slot into Mazda's utility vehicle lineup between the entry-level CX-3 and the best-selling CX-5 with a Canadian base MSRP of $23,950. But the CX-30 GX is no base vehicle. Standard equipment includes an 8.8-inch Mazda Connect screen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, alloy... Read more

You don't see it. You don't hear it. You certainly don't taste it or smell it. But you can feel it. Ever since Mazda introduced G-Vectoring Control in the 2017 Mazda 6 - and then spread GVC across the lineup - Mazda drivers have benefited from more agile vehicles which require less steering effort. It's not flashy technology; it's not a... Read more

Specific details regarding the Kia Niro EV's range won't be fully known until the 2019 Niro EV makes its world debut in Paris this fall; perhaps not until the Niro makes its way to Canadian dealers early next year. But early testing suggests that the Niro EV may well put an end to the range anxiety that has afflicted many electric vehicles to... Read more

Crown Vic? Hardly. This is a Nissan GT-R generously donated by a happy Nissan customer to the police in Tochigi, Japan. It is not destined for the show circuit. You've seen supercar police vehicles in the past: Dubai's Bugatti Veyron, the Caparo T1 rapid response vehicle, or Australia's BMW i8 cop car. But as often as not, the cars are... Read more

Never in the company's history has Nissan Canada reported more new vehicle sales than in June 2018. June resulted in 14,932 total Nissan sales, including 4,342 Rogues, 2,150 Qashqais, 1,636 Sentras, and 1,415 Muranos. In a national market that actually shrunk slightly, Nissan Canada sales grew 1 percent, year-over-year. In its first full month... Read more

Record December results cemented 2018 as the best year in the history of Nissan Canada. Thanks to record results from the Qashqai, Armada, and LEAF, Nissan sales rose 2%, year-over-year, to 136,536 units. Sales in Canada's Nissan showrooms have nearly doubled since 2012. In fact, 2018 was the Nissan brand's sixth consecutive year of growth; its... Read more

It's one thing to include Apple CarPlay/Android Auto integration to newly redesigned and refreshed models, as Mazda is doing with the 2019 CX-9 and some other upcoming '19 models. But now Mazda has taken the leapfrogging step of offering owners of many pre-owned Mazdas an Apple CarPlay/Android Auto upgrade. To make your Mazda Connect and HMI... Read more

Exhaust your theories, run your algorithms, complete all of your experiments. At the end of the day, a real, live, breathing driver is required to fine tune a vehicle. There may be no engineer better suited to the job than Albert Biermann. For over three decades, Biermann was on the BMW team. Eventually, from 2008 until his 2015 departure,... Read more

The Nissan LEAF is a great electric car, and also a great car. Often overlooked, the depth of the 2019 Nissan LEAF's appeal goes far beyond its high-capacity battery and long-distance EV range. There's something about alternative means of propulsion that cause analysts, reviewers, and even shoppers to focus on only one thing: range or charge... Read more

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the 2016 model year represented the fifth consecutive year in which Mazda was the most fuel efficient automaker. Conclusions are drawn based on vehicles sold during a one year period using combined (city/highway) fuel economy ratings, and are then weighted for sales volume. Based on these... Read more