I’ve been photographing and writing about automobiles for almost a decade now. During the past five years or so, I’ve been doing more and more work with OEM subjects, but I’ve been a performance auto and modified tuner enthusiast for longer than I can remember. Factory performance – whether it be in complete vehicle form or upgraded parts and accessories – is middle ground for me.

I as an Automotive Journalist, I’ve had many people tell me how they think I have the greatest job in the world. Granted, my line of work is rather rewarding, but who do I think has the best job in the world? Well that would be the test drivers who work for the…

The emergence of both television and film over the last half-century helped cultivate a segment of the car culture that attracts some of the most talented and creative individuals to ever draw a sketch, engineer a solution,

Storied Italian sports car-maker Alfa Romeo built just five 8C-2900 Type B Berlinetta Coupés in 1938. And two of the powerful 2,900cc cars with a significant racing history have had strong B.C connections.

Malcolm Bricklin, a millionaire entrepreneur from New York, had an exceptional dream in 1972 – to build the world’s safest and most economical sports car.

Track days, while inherently fun, are rather costly, and you don’t get a whole lot of track time to master your ride or the track you are trying to conquer.

One of our clients imported a Nissan Fairlady into Canada. For those who don’t know, a Fairlady is a right-hand drive Nissan 300Z. It’s powered by a twin-turbo motor that puts out a lot more power then the North American version. He wanted to have a more modern and more accurate gauge package to be [...]

A few issues back, we took our first look at subwoofers. This is a key subject in the area of car audio, since most systems, even some of the best high-end factory systems, often lack the ability to reproduce the bottom octave of the audio spectrum accurately. In this installment of Plugged-In, we’ll look at what you get for your money when you buy a high-end subwoofer.

We all work hard in some capacity. How hard we work, however, is really up for interpretation—training for a marathon, taking an extra job to make ends meet, or sweating it out in the final level of Call of Duty 4. But we can all agree that a serious tuning project is no easy task, inevitably requiring a good dose of sweat equity. From the planning stage, to setting budgets, to all the labour and everything in between, it’s clear: you had better expect some serious hurt and hustle.

I recently had the chance to travel to Denver, Colorado to test drive one of Ford’s newest offerings. I was very surprised that it was a 2010 Ford Flex. After all, this vehicle was just introduced last year, so what could they possibly do to improve on it?