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Road Test Text: Iain Shankland / Images: Iain & Gail Shankland (BMW - car pictures)
This week’s road test is actually a holiday test… we spent a week in Germany and what better vehicle could there be to drive around in than a BMW? The road test and the holiday are so intertwined it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins…. there’s also a motor racing aspect thrown in for good measure.Landing at Munich airport, we took a train and then a bus to get
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18.03.2010
Road Test Text: Iain Shankland / Images: Iain & Gail Shankland (BMW - car pictures)
This week’s road test is actually a holiday test… we spent a week in Germany and what better vehicle could there be to drive around in than a BMW? The road t
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09.03.2010
Road Test: Text / Images: Iain ShanklandThe Toyota Venza appears at a time when we’re inundated by CUV’s (Crossover Utility Vehicles) of all shapes and sizes. So it begs the question: Do w
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04.03.2010
Text & Images: Iain Shankland When my wife first laid her eyes on the Kia Soul at the auto show, right then and there she wanted one. I was intrigued, but not overly thrilled at owning one (I don’t have a vehicle of my own –
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28.02.2010
Text & Images: Iain Shankland
Well it had to happen… sooner or later I had to get a Prius to test drive for a week. I’ve driven all kinds of hybrids over the years, but I’ve always managed to avoid the mother of all pretentious-tree-huggi
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10.02.2010
Text & Images: Iain Shankland
I last drove the Edge back in April of 2007 and I quite liked it. I wasn’t really setting out to request another road test with it, but Ford suggested I give the Edge Sport a try. It had that one thing going for it … the designation &l
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04.02.2010
Text & Images: Iain Shankland
It’s been a year or two since I’ve taken a full-size pickup truck for a road test. With the Ford F-150 being all-new in 2009 and having major improvements over the 2008, I thought it would be a good time to test one. S
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21.01.2010
Road Tes by Iain Shankland / Images: Mitsubishi / Iain Shankland
Sweaty palms, shortness of breath and a racing heartbeat. I didn’t know it yet but I had fallen in love. That was the first few seconds of my experience behind the wheel of the 20
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13.01.2010
Road Test: 2010 by Iain Shankland / Images: Mitsubishi & Iain Shankland
While the base Lancer without the lower body kit and rear wing is no dog, the GTS adds enough looks and pizzazz to make it a far more attractive car. But it’s not just different in the looks department - for 2009 the GTS got a bigger engine and therefore becomes a completely differen
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06.01.2010
Road Test 2010 Text & Images: Iain Shankland
The first time I actually got to see the Flex in person was at the 2008 Canadian International Auto Show. Superstar designer Chip Foose was introducing his version of the Flex along with the Foose F-150
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29.12.2009
Road Test: 2009 Text & Images: Iain ShanklandThe last time I drove a Jeep Wrangler was many years ago – back when they were called either a TJ or a YJ. They were bouncy and a little primitive to say the least. Other adjectives you could use to describe the
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22.12.2009
Road Test by Iain Shankland / Images: Mitsubishi / Gail & Iain Shankland
I first saw the iCar at the Toronto Auto Show in February 2009. At the time the president of Mitsubishi Canada was telling the auto journalist crowd that he was rooting f
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17.12.2009
Road Test Special: Text: Iain Shankland / Images: Iain Shankland & Ford
While Ford was encouraging us to put the Fiesta through its paces, they took the opportunity to showcase a couple of their new safety items. Last week we covered the ingenio
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09.12.2009
Road Test Special by Iain Shankland / Images: Ford
While Ford were encouraging us to put the Fiesta through its paces, they also took the opportunity to demonstrate a couple of their “exciting” new features that when I first heard abou
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02.12.2009
Road Test Text & Images: Iain Shankland
This review is almost a part 2, and more of an up-date - as opposed to a full-blown Road Test. Last week I covered the mid-range Nitro SLT and I loved it. This review is based on the top level R/T which has a bigg
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26.11.2009
Road Test Text Iain Shankland / Images: Iain & Gail Shankland
When I saw the Dodge Nitro at the Toronto International Auto Show a couple of years ago, and I thought it was a great-looking truck in a manly sort of way. I knew right away it would be the kind of
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19.11.2009
Road Test Special by Iain Shankland / Images: Iain & Gail Shankland and Ford
Ford is the only one of the “Big Three” that didn’t declare bankruptcy and they didn’t go crawling to the U.S. and Cana
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12.11.2009
Road Test: Text / Images: Iain Shankland
Toyota trucks have been known worldwide for years as being indestructible. If you’ve ever seen the BBC TV show Top Gear, then you’ll know how much abuse the Toyota can take and still live to drive home. They&
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05.11.2009
We Take the 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid On A Summer Holiday To Get The AnswerText & Images: Iain Shankland
A couple of years ago I drove a Toyota Camry hybrid on an extended run of a whirl-wind trip from Niagara Falls to the Road America Racetrack in
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29.10.2009
Road Test:Text & Images: Iain ShanklandHaving driven the C30 T5 a couple of years ago and loved it, I couldn’t pass up the unique opportunity to drive another while on a business trip/vacation in California. The manual transmission in the C30 T5 is one of the sweetest and slickest gearboxes available; however, since probably 90% of these car
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22.10.2009
Road Test Text & Images: Iain Shankland
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to drive the Daytona Charger. It was bright Orange and turned out to be a head-turner for people of all ages – men and women, kids and dogs. When Chrys
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17.10.2009
Transform a Dingy Garage into Dual-Purpose Space - For a Car and a Portrait StudioRecently my wife and I faced the daunting task of finding a more appropriate space to call home for our portrait photography business. Needing to keep overhead to a minim
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16.10.2009
Road Test: 2009 MINI Cooper S ClubmanText & Images: Iain ShanklandHaving grown up in the UK, the Mini has always been an integral part of the roadscape to me. From the familiar and traditional 2-door version to a station wagon (Clubm
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