Matt Bubbers
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Can Chinese EVs solve Canada’s affordability crunch? It’s not that simple (opens the original)
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The race is on to deliver cheap electric vehicles – or any highly affordable new car – to increasingly cost-conscious Canadian drivers. Automakers seemingly have realized belatedly during this affordability crunch that many of their products are simply too expensive. The big question now is whether Chinese brands, or their rivals, or indeed any automaker can actually fill the empty chasm at the low end of the Canadian car market. It won’t be easy given high safety standards, manufacturing comple
Q&A: From YouTube to Prime time, Canadians take over The Grand Tour (opens the original)
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Many have tried to replicate the decades-long success enjoyed by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, former hosts of Top Gear and The Grand Tour. According to Guinness World Records, Top Gear is the world’s most widely watched factual television program, with an estimated weekly reach of 350 million viewers. All attempts, however, to capture the trio’s peculiar chemistry have failed, often quite badly, until now. Having just watched the first episode of Prime Video’s rebooted version
Toronto traffic was the World Cup’s worst, but the data reveals a silver lining (opens the original)
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Perhaps you’ve already heard – I hesitate to call this news because that implies new information – but Toronto’s traffic was bad during the World Cup. In a city with such a chip on its shoulder, residents – me included – will take sick pleasure in reading that our traffic was, in fact, the worst among the tournament’s 16 host cities, according to a study by Geotab Inc., an Oakville, Ont.-based, vehicle fleet analytics company. “It’s not too much of a surprise to me because I’m going in and out o
The car show where $1-million is entry-level (opens the original)
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Auction houses recently hustled a record US$755.6-million worth of cars during Monterey Car Week at seaside resorts and a golf club around the bougie enclave of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. None of them had an original Monet tucked into the glovebox, seats made of solid gold or any single feature that might help explain why collectors were tossing eight-figure cheques around like confetti. Monterey Car Week, which used to be almost quaint – like Best in Show for cars – has gradually become a major
The restomod boom: Custom classic Porsche 911s are the ultimate high-end designer statement (opens the original)
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Roy Banse, a neighbour across the street from me in Toronto, has parked a series of particular Porsche sports cars in his driveway over the years. They suggest not so much a collector as a keen driver, a track-day addict falling down a rabbit hole of increasingly expensive and esoteric Porsches. Most people have no idea how deep or expensive that rabbit hole gets, so let me show you. When I moved into the neighbourhood three years ago, a silver 911 GT3 Touring sat in Banse’s driveway. After that
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