First gigs for pimple-pitted teens are usually those with comically low stakes and a weed-dealing manager. Stocking shelves, pretending to babysit, and washing cars are all on the agenda. Not for me. At the age of 16, license all shiny and demerit-free, I was hired as a general worker by my town’s Parks Department, a … Read more
I don’t consider myself a truck guy, per se, nor have I really manifested an interest in buying one. I just don’t have truck needs or truck dreams. But then the coronavirus happened, and like everyone else, I ended up locked up inside my apartment for months, spending my days playing video games and smoking … Read more
Let’s play a game. Without Googling, how many manual hatchbacks are still being sold at this moment in the United States? Not that many, right? My own brain informs me that they are the Toyota Corolla, Mazda 3, Hyundai Veloster N, Subaru Impreza hatch, and this, the 2022 Honda Civic Hatchback. They’re a dying breed, … Read more
The 2022 Honda Civic Si is one of the few affordable sport compacts still around and kicking from the segment’s heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. As a younger car enthusiast, I didn’t understand why this spruced-up economy car somehow outlived its more bombastic rivals, like the Mitsubishi Eclipse and the Mazdaspeed 3. What did … Read more
Despite its proximity to the States, there are quite a few cars available up here in Canada that aren’t sold in the so-called land of the free. Keen readers of The Drive may remember my jaunts in the Canada-only and surprisingly fun manual Nissan Sentra and the not-as-fun-as-I’d-hoped manual Kia Forte5. In this latest edition … Read more
In the time it takes you to finish reading this sentence, Audi will sell approximately 246 Q5 crossovers to American buyers. Okay, fine, it may be closer to 244. Math has never been my strong suit. But any way you want to look at it, the Q5 is a bonafide hit for Audi. Even four … Read more
Whether you like it or not, the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E is a sales success and here to stay. According to Ford, it is now on track to deliver 50,000 units by the end of the year, and production for the 2021 model is already sold out. Not bad for a year plagued with pandemic-related … Read more
Americans cannot get enough of crossovers, and nothing is more emblematic of that than the Honda CR-V. It is arguably as much a standby of present-day American car culture as classic domestic sedans were in years gone by, and its popularity reflects that: as of August 2020, 5,963,369 have been sold in the United States … Read more
Welcome to Critic’s Notebook, a quick and off-the-cuff collection of impressions, jottings, and marginalia on whatever The Drive writers happen to be driving. Today’s edition: The Bentley Mulsanne Speed. A rep for Rolls-Royce once elucidated the difference between his six-figures wares and Bentley’s: “You drive a Bentley,” he scoffed, “But you’re driven in a Rolls.” His slight missed the mark, … Read more
Despite what its name might lead engineering-inclined folks to believe, the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition cannot travel at approximately 2.7 times the speed of sound. As far as my butt dyno is concerned, however, it’s not far off. To anybody who has paid much attention to the recent generation of luxury EVs, … Read more