by CarEnvy.ca Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Take US Politics, the closest thing America has…
2011 Kia Optima SX Turbo: When Koreans Make German Porn [Review]
2.0T That’ll be an Audi with the ubiquitous two-litre TFSI engine, then. “Not so fast”, says Kia, a subsidiary of South Korean monolith Hyundai. “It’s…
2011 Jeep Compass: Cheap Romance [Review]
by Lucas Elke Here at CarEnvy.ca, we’ve been skilled lucky enough to test drive some nippy cars and some zippy cars. A week with a…
2011 Chevy Cruze: The Trade-Off Is Happiness [Review]
When I handed the keys back to the bewildered receptionist at the dealership, a girl barely out of high school and clearly not acquainted with…
The Ford Explorer Limerick Review
The 2011 Explorer takes an entirely different tack for Ford, certainly compared to its tire-exploding predecessors, so I’m going to take a similarly atypical approach…
Hood Ornaments of Amercian Cars Circa 1940 and ’50
Hood ornaments kill. Find me a car on sale today that comes standard with a hood ornament that juts forward out of the hood and…
Andy Warhol Is In Town, Notably Without His BMW M1 Art Car
To celebrate the ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured exhibit, making its only Canadian appearance at Edmonton’s world class and Gehry-lite Art Gallery of Alberta, we simply must…
Adapt or Perish: Revolution in Motoring Journalism
Malcolm Gladwell’s Valentine’s Day article for the New Yorker on the importance of criteria weighting when evaluating colleges, football, and cars was more profound and…
A Tale of Two Sultans: Michigan vs. Brunei
by Lucas Elke (not pictured above) For most car enthusiasts, the dream of owning their favorite car(s) is all too real, if not consumingly distracting….
2011 Toyota Matrix S: Simplicity At Its Most Underappreciated [Review]
Ignore the blue squares. Look at the blue sky. Once upon a time, (an opening line used with disparaging infrequency in car reviews) every manufacturer…