There's no better way of getting the sport-bike–riding experience than the CBR125R—and without breaking the bank in the process, or getting in over your head.

If you want a highly drivable four-door hatchback that’s amazingly good on gas and has a surprising amount of interior room, and you like Honda products, then buy one of these.

The vision of clean-running automobiles is a tantalizing one. Everybody seems to have a pet theory, but the reality is that it’s still an enormously complicated issue.

The retro-flavoured LX 150 could be the answer to downtown traffic woes, with a very Italian emphasis on style as well as getting from A to B.

With a make-over for ’09, both the Corolla and the Matrix are racier while retaining the features that keep buyers loyal—and then some.

China is currently the fastest-growing automobile market in the world.

Despite the current push for clean-running transportation, electric scooters and motorcycles are still a hard sell, especially where government bureaucracy is concerned.

Is a luxury automobile still a luxury automobile if most people can afford it? That probably depends on how much disposable income you have, and whether you care about keeping up with the Joneses.

DETROIT—The flavour of the month at the North American International Auto Show was clean and green transportation. No surprise there. Among the usual 500-horsepower sports cars, extravagant luxury sedans, ground-shaking pickup trucks, and glitzy SUVs gathered on the floor at Detroit’s Cobo Center, there were more environmentally correct vehicles than ever, with virtually all the major manufacturers presenting something.

If you’re in the market for economical, efficient, A to B transportation, chances are your priorities include: value for money, thrift, and ease of operation, rather than the ability to get from a standing start to freeway speed in less than six seconds and the ability to cruise all day at 160 kilometres per hour.

Although Mercedes-Benz may have removed the diesel engine from its latest Smart car, the company is moving full-steam ahead with its new Bluetec diesel models, now that cleaner-burning, lower-sulphur-content diesel fuel is making its way onto the Canadian market.

Built on the hot-selling four-door sedan but suitably shortened, the Altima Coupe is a sports car with oomph, as long as you stick to six-speed manual

Version 2 has fixed the problem of them falling over. Now it's up to municipalities to decide where drivers can use them

The newest version of the Smart loses the erstwhile three-cylinder diesel engine and is remarkably capable on the highway

Citing higher fuel prices and a shift in the "air of excess" in the U.S., the decision makers at Ford say there is a change in the wind, and their company needs to get in on the growing small-car segment of the market. In Canada, this represents almost 50 percent of the total market.