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2025 Canadian Car of the Year finalists: what makes a winner?
Elle Alder 1/17/25 Elle Alder 1/17/25

2025 Canadian Car of the Year finalists: what makes a winner?

Some sensible, some irrelevant; the shortlist is in

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Review: Lexus LC 500 sets standards beyond its bracket
Elle Alder 1/8/25 Elle Alder 1/8/25

Review: Lexus LC 500 sets standards beyond its bracket

Carrying on quietly, the LC Convertible is still the finest tourer on the market

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Review: 2025 Aston Martin DB12 Volante (with video)
Elle Alder 1/2/25 Elle Alder 1/2/25

Review: 2025 Aston Martin DB12 Volante (with video)

This grand tourer is plenty flawed, but spend some time and you'll be hard-pressed to hold those shortcomings against it

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Long Read: Is Cadillac’s half-mil Celestiq a credible high-luxe contender?
Elle Alder 12/31/24 Elle Alder 12/31/24

Long Read: Is Cadillac’s half-mil Celestiq a credible high-luxe contender?

General Motors' renovated "Cadillac House" studio aims to sell a story—and leapfrog its tier-3 American brand into tier-1 luxury

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Review: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona EV is fast, but doesn’t feel it (with video)
Elle Alder 12/12/24 Elle Alder 12/12/24

Review: 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona EV is fast, but doesn’t feel it (with video)

EVs should make great muscle cars, but by brazenly dropping "Scat Pack" in name and Hellcat in context, Dodge has painted itself into a corner

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Review: 2025 Ineos Grenadier is this generation’s trail-running salvation (with video)
Elle Alder 12/6/24 Elle Alder 12/6/24

Review: 2025 Ineos Grenadier is this generation’s trail-running salvation (with video)

Not cheap, but the best 1997 4x4 you can buy new drives better than any modern Jeep

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Review: 2025 Porsche 911 T (992.2) is manual only, and don’t you forget it (with video)
Elle Alder 11/19/24 Elle Alder 11/19/24

Review: 2025 Porsche 911 T (992.2) is manual only, and don’t you forget it (with video)

Facelifted 992.2 T is now the only mainline 911 manual — at least until the new 911 S

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Drive Your Heroes: The recalcitrant TVR Tuscan was never quite of this plane
Elle Alder 11/10/24 Elle Alder 11/10/24

Drive Your Heroes: The recalcitrant TVR Tuscan was never quite of this plane

Bluster-backed & brilliant, the Tuscan Speed Six is comfortably irreverent toward any reasonable expectation of what a car should be

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Porsche recall a reminder that centre-lock wheels are silly on street cars
Elle Alder 11/7/24 Elle Alder 11/7/24

Porsche recall a reminder that centre-lock wheels are silly on street cars

"Because racecar" cosplay a costly inconvenience for those who actually track their cars

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Review: Can the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N handle a real-world track day?
Elle Alder 10/19/24 Elle Alder 10/19/24

Review: Can the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N handle a real-world track day?

Taking the truest-yet enthusiast EV to a local circuit

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Review: Calculating the Aston Martin Vantage's handling is a factor of power (with video)
Elle Alder 5/14/24 Elle Alder 5/14/24

Review: Calculating the Aston Martin Vantage's handling is a factor of power (with video)

Major update brings 30% more power, but that's not nearly the best part.

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Review: Mercedes' electric G 580 is the most seamless ICE-EV transition we've seen
Elle Alder 5/13/24 Elle Alder 5/13/24

Review: Mercedes' electric G 580 is the most seamless ICE-EV transition we've seen

2025 G 580 EQ is fundamentally different than, yet largely indistinguishable from its gas counterpart

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Review: 2024 Lotus Eletre R (with video)
Elle Alder 5/4/24 Elle Alder 5/4/24

Review: 2024 Lotus Eletre R (with video)

British marque's first sport-utility effort makes for an impressive electric SUV, just not a good Lotus

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Review: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser (L250)
Elle Alder 4/16/24 Elle Alder 4/16/24

Review: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser (L250)

Awaited return of Toyota's legendary Land Cruiser is most clearly defined by what it isn’t

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Donut Media: We Drove Porsches at Every Price (Research Credit)
Elle Alder 3/18/24 Elle Alder 3/18/24

Donut Media: We Drove Porsches at Every Price (Research Credit)

“We drove nearly every price Porsche, from a $3,000 project car all the way up to a $3,000,000 hypercar, and everything in between!“

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Drive Your Heroes: The ultimate Porsche 911 prototype is special precisely because it isn’t
Elle Alder 2/14/24 Elle Alder 2/14/24

Drive Your Heroes: The ultimate Porsche 911 prototype is special precisely because it isn’t

Driving Porsche Museum’s 1985 ‘F22’ 911 Carrera 3.2 prototype that brought us the Club Sport

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Review: The Mercedes-Benz S-Class no longer sets the standard
Elle Alder 2/8/24 Elle Alder 2/8/24

Review: The Mercedes-Benz S-Class no longer sets the standard

The misleading promises of a complacent brand

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Review: The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing’s excellence doesn’t make it memorable
Elle Alder 1/15/24 Elle Alder 1/15/24

Review: The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing’s excellence doesn’t make it memorable

The well-balanced 668-horsepower performance-focused sedan is an engineering delight, but where’s the spark?

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The Trust of a Friend: Road-tripping 5,000 km in a borrowed '92 Acura NSX
Automotive, Publications Elle Alder 12/25/23 Automotive, Publications Elle Alder 12/25/23

The Trust of a Friend: Road-tripping 5,000 km in a borrowed '92 Acura NSX

This '90s supercar makes a better roadside bunk than you'd expect.

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The Porsche 968 Convertible shows ‘better’ isn’t necessarily worse
Automotive, Publications Elle Alder 12/14/23 Automotive, Publications Elle Alder 12/14/23

The Porsche 968 Convertible shows ‘better’ isn’t necessarily worse

Enthusiasm often rejects modernity, but we needn’t always hold improvement against a classic.

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