Kelly Taylor

Not your grandfather’s Corolla

In 2016, John Wallis was stuck at an airport, trying to get home, unaware he was about to experience a powerful anecdote about hiring and retaining staff. As he dealt with the airline’s agent booking...

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — In the early days of Toyota’s entrance to the Canadian market, Japanese executives would visit facilities in Toronto and wonder why staff weren’t running through the parking lot to g...

Globally, the automotive industry has invested more than US$1.2 trillion on zero-emissions driving, but the pace of sales of electric vehicles is slowing, in some cases, falling off a cliff. While Hyu...

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I am a big fan of Mazda vehicles. The engineering prowess that goes into even the tiniest details continues to impress on both my CX-5 crossover and Mazda3 Sport hatchback. Having driven the relativel...

AYER’S CLIFF, Que. — You could be forgiven for thinking the 2024 Hyundai Kona is an electric vehicle. It’s not. Yet. “The design started as an EV, so there’s no compromise on EV design,” said Steve Fl...

Jun 2023: Honda HR-V worthy competitor in compact crossover segment

SALT SPRING ISLAND, British Columbia — People wouldn’t like the 2022 Ford Maverick, they said. Too small, they said. Not trucklike enough, they said. Well, what do they know, anyway? Ford...

Like an acid trip that just keeps building, the story of the Volkswagen ID. Buzz took another small step forward this week when VW unveiled its back-to-the-future reincarnation of the Microbus.The Microbus was the darling of the 1960s, as much a part of the cultural landscape as the Summer of Love a…

There are interesting parallels between the evolution of the human machine interface on Star Trek and in real-life vehicles today. In the 1960s original series, Capt. James T. Kirk would press a butto...

As practical as the minivan is, as much as it saved Chrysler in the 1980s, as much as it can’t be beat for interior volume for its footprint, there’s one question that comes to mind having driven the 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Pinnacle: Is there really a market for a $70,000 minivan? “Absolutely,” says …

Winnipeg-based Rapid RTC, which provides real-time communications between automotive dealers and customers browsing online, has been acquired by U.K. software developer Keyloop in a deal that promises...

GIMLI — Manitoba’s Icelandic outpost has found itself a new identity for a few months each winter: an epicentre of a global carmaker’s experiential marketing efforts. Now in its four...

To stud or not to stud? Last week’s blast of the white stuff was a good reminder about the need for winter tires, and as the city settles in for what might be a long winter, it might be time to...

Transcona — long the butt of many jokes in the rest of Winnipeg — has been identified as the city’s top “hidden gem” in a national study of neighbourhood livability. &ldq...

UberEats and Skip the Dishes now have a formidable third competitor vying for third-party food-delivery service in Winnipeg. San Francisco-based DoorDash — the largest such service in the United...

CIRCUIT MECAGLISSE, Que. — It’s an idea as outrageous as it is brilliant: take a regular sedan, remove the wheels, lift the suspension and add four tracks for unbeatable deep-snow performa...

An Exchange District building with a link to Louis Riel that was without a name for 133 years is getting a new lease on life, and a name, as a 39-unit residential complex. The building at 104 and 108...

ELMA — It’s under water today, but in 2012 Joy and Scott Sutyla got married on a patch of bedrock in the middle of the Whitemouth River. “You can’t see it — we’ve h...