Compact cars are still an important part of the Canadian auto marketplace, but you wouldn’t know it if you visited a General Motors, Ford or Dodge dealership. These domestic brands, formerly known as the Big Three, have abandoned most of their car models in favour of satisfying the market’s appetite for SUVs. That makes the
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Innovative Pickup Truck Features
Selling pickup trucks is a competitive business in North America: The Ford F-150, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, and Ram 1500 full-size trucks are some of the most popular new vehicles in Canada. Full-size models are the stars of the pickup segment, but smaller trucks have made a comeback. The market for mid-size pickups took off
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Eight Fuel-Efficient Subcompact Crossovers Available today
by Chris Chase If you read OntarioCars.ca regularly, you’ll have seen us mention many times that small cars are disappearing, often to be replaced with subcompact crossovers and SUVs. That’s great for people who like SUVs, and for the car manufacturers who sell them. But what about fuel economy? If you’ve spent decades driving small
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Why Does Engine Placement Affect Drivability?
Where the engine is placed in a vehicle affects how it handles and drives. For the most part in Canada, we have front-engine vehicles. But you can also find rear- and mid-engine vehicles. In this blog post, we’ll first explore why front-engine vehicles are so popular. Then we’ll talk about the advantages to performance that
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2021 & 2022 Hatchbacks You Can Buy Now
As automakers continue to add new small crossovers to their lineups, the market for compact hatchbacks is shrinking. But this group of practical and affordable small cars isn’t dead yet: Honda has an all-new Civic Hatchback coming out, and VW has redesigned its GTI sport compact. Kia, Mazda, Subaru and Toyota still have compact hatchbacks
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Common Misconceptions about EVs and the Winter
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer so many advantages to gas-powered vehicles, like increased power, quietness, a more planted ride, as well as a better choice for the environment. Unfortunately, the common misconception that EVs don’t work in the winter is a little too common on the Internet. In today’s blog post, we’ll talk about what happens
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Used European Luxury Compact Crossovers
by Chris Chase For the final instalment in our series of articles about buying a used compact luxury SUV, we’re examining the “other” half of the European slice of this vehicle segment. While BMW, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo helped establish the compact luxury SUV category, later entries from Land Rover, Porsche, Jaguar, and Alfa Romeo
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Apple CarPlay & Android Auto: Why You Want Them in Your Vehicle
First, we had radios. Then tape decks. Then tape-deck adaptors for your Discman…fast forward to today, past Bluetooth connectivity, and we have cellphone mirroring, the ability to project your phone’s screen onto your car’s touchscreen. Apple and Google are the two main tech companies who’ve developed it. We’ll talk about the difference between Apple CarPlay
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Old vs New, Jeep, Ford, Chevrolet
In the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment’s early days, they were some of the least fuel-efficient mainstream models you could buy, as many of them were based on truck platforms. A move toward crossover SUV models that share underpinnings with cars helped reduce their fuel consumption, making them cheaper to run and boosting their popularity.
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Electric Vehicles: Where the Frunk Is the Motor?
Have you seen a video of a Tesla taking off from a stop, whipping its passengers back with force? An EV with so much power, even though there’s no big motor in the front? Their front trunk or “frunk” may confuse some prospective EV buyers about what really powers these futuristic vehicles. In today’s blog
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