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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently put the 2018 Kia Niro through its crash-test paces and the final result is yet another Top Safety Pick+ for the Kia brand. The Kia Niro, Canada's most fuel-efficient crossover, joins the 2018 Kia Forte sedan, 2018 Kia Soul, 2018 Kia Optima, and 2019 Kia Sorento as Top Safety Pick+ models. No... Read more

Nissan's concept car belief: go big, or go home. The entire philosophy behind the concept car is to consider new concepts, to make consumers aware of an automaker's thinking, to feed off consumer reaction to different approaches. Nissan, therefore, doesn't display a muted collection of thinly veiled production cars at globally important auto... Read more

It was Kia Canada's goal to raise $150,000 for Special Olympics Canada during July 2018, a lofty objective in the lead-up the 2018 Special Olympics Summer Games that ended in Antigonish last week. Instead, Kia Canada actually raised $165,820, thanks in large part to the company's customers and dealers. $10 from the sale of each vehicle in July -... Read more

It's nearly a monopoly. It's certainly not indicative of the sharing mentality your mother hoped to instill in you. Kelley Blue Book, a vital resource in North America's automotive research field, particularly when it comes to establishing resale values, names 13 vehicles to its annual Best Buy list. Spread out across 12 categories, KBB picks... Read more

At Nissan, it's called an Intelligent Key. Mazda calls it Advanced Keyless Entry. Honda refers to it as Honda Proximity Key Entry. Kia named it Smart Key. What is it? Although the systems differ slightly by vehicle, the main themes of every form of proximity access are pushbutton start and the ability to leave your key in your jeans pocket,... Read more

Watch Honda Explain How to Drive a Manual Transmission The overwhelming majority of new vehicles are sold with automatic transmissions. That's two pedals: a brake on the left; the throttle on the right. Honda nevertheless remains committed to the three-pedal manual transmission, with availability on the Fit, Civic, Accord, and HR-V. For many... Read more

We don't know what every Kia of the future will look like. But we do know what grille they will wear. According to Peter Schreyer, Kia's design boss who came to Kia from Audi's design department, "I am very happy and I think it is very good for Kia that we have the tiger nose." And Schreyer says, in a CarBuzz report, that the trademark front end... Read more

Fun. There's probably never been a word in the three-decade history of the Mazda Miata with which the Miata brand was more closely linked. Driving enjoyment is a major component of every Mazda, and all of that flows out of the Miata. But the Miata faithful have always known something else about the four generations of MX-5, right from the first... Read more

Mazda Canada's updates on the 2020 Mazda CX-9 combine to make Mazda's flagship utility vehicle a more technologically advanced, more premium, and more powerful vehicle. The CX-9's been an award-winner from the start, but that didn't stop Mazda from introducing meaningful upgrades in each successive model year. The list of improvements included... Read more

It's December 11, 2018. According to Environment Canada, the temperature in Summerside fell to -18.7 °C yesterday, not rising above -7 °C. It's winter in Prince Edward Island, so we shouldn't be surprised to find it a bit chilly, even if yesterday's high was colder than the average low for the same date. Fortunately, Kia has a solution. It's... Read more

As Honda unveils a newly expanded CRF off-road bike family for 2019, the most noteworthy new model may well be the Honda CRF450L. Or maybe the CRF250RX. Or the CRF450RWE Or perhaps it's the overall revamping Honda has done to continuing models, like an updated platform for the CRF450X, new ECU settings and a launch control system for the... Read more