Nearly two years since the last Dreams vs Reality test was completed, The Good Car Guy is returning to provide solutions to a common problem. You want what you cannot have. You desire that for which you cannot pay. Your yearning revolves around a mode of transportation valued much greater than your home. What to do?This is not the place where dreams become reality. No, this is where your dreams are analyzed in the context of reality. Is pursuing vehicular dreams really all that worthwhile? Do... Read Full Story
Beautiful early autumn-like temperatures were commonplace in Halifax this late in the season over the last two weeks. This meant an awful lot of walking and relatively little driving in the '09 smart car. Over the course of 232.6 kilometres (144.5 miles) the smart fortwo used 6.9 litres of premium gasoline for every 100km of driving. 6.9L/100km translates to 34 mpg or 40.9 miles on each Imperial gallon. While not up to the smart's rating of 5.9L/100km, this is an improvement on the smart fort... Read Full Story
10,827 - total BMW 3-Series sales in Canada so far this year, more than all other eight BMW model lines combined35,507 - total Chrysler/Dodge minivan sales so far this year, a number greater than that of Dodge truck sales, more than total Jeep sales, and more than all car sales at Chrysler/Dodge6,288 - total Mercedes-Benz C-Class sales so far this year, more than all other Mercedes-Benz cars combined while the Mercedes-Benz GLK is out-selling the combined total of all the other Mercedes-Benz... Read Full Story
375 inhabitants of Canada purchased or leased a Mercedes-Benz GLK350 4Matic in October. That takes the total for 2009 over 4,000. Which means Mercedes-Benz is only missing out on 33,110,000 other potential buyers. Subtract the unlicensed and we're still left with millions of consumers in just one country who either have not yet or will not ever purchase or lease a Mercedes-Benz GLK. Yet the GLK is Canada's most successful small luxury SUV. Clearly we don't measure success in products like thi... Read Full Story
Sales figures for entry-luxury cars in Canada end up about an eighth or a tenth the total of America's Sales Stats for the same cars. Compare the Graph you see below with the identical Graph utilized for U.S. purposes to study the figures in-depth. BMW is just as dominant here in Canada as it is in America.... and the rest of the world. The Mercedes-Benz C-Class has ridden the coattails of its good looks to very decent Numbers in Canada. And its very clear that, were it not for the Infiniti G... Read Full Story
Four out of the top five best-selling auto brands in Canada - circa October '09 - are represented with SUVs in this, the Top 5 Best-Selling SUVs in Canada for October 2009. In fact, while Canada's third best-selling brand, Dodge, doesn't feature in the Graph below, Canada's sixth best-selling brand, Hyundai, does so with a very strong performance. We're closing in on winter solstice, yet the Pontiac Solstice is dead and the Chevrolet Equinox is selling like southern-baked hotcakes in cold Can... Read Full Story
For one reason or another Canadians continue to buy against the grain at General Motors dealerships. GMC's Sierra once again out-sold the Chevrolet Silverado in the Great White North (which isn't even close to white right now). Pairing the two together wasn't enough to forestall Ford from taking the number one spot in truck sales last month. Check out the Top 5 Best-Selling Trucks in America here. The October tally for Canada is as follows.-----#5 - TOYOTA TACOMA: 797#4 - FORD RANGER: 1,136#3... Read Full Story
Seventeen days into November and your craving can be satisified. Canada's best-selling cars from October are now known and Toyota has once again filled the rankings. Four cars in the Top 10 Best-Selling Cars (seen below in the Graph), one SUV in the soon-to-be-published Top 5 Best-Selling SUVs, and one truck in the also-soon-to-be-published Top 5 Best-Selling Trucks.Canada's Auto Sales figures are completely at odds with those south of the border even if the overall brand totals manifest simi... Read Full Story
Lotus Cars USA has finally released the necessary information relative to its new Evora. For those of you who've been attempting to do calculations based on the Evora's £ or € pricing, that chore is now over. Lotus wants you to fork over $73,500 for a base Evora in America. The price could quickly rise with options; a statement which is terribly true for the Evora's main competitor, the Porsche 911. Moreover, had the Lotus Evora been priced lower than $71,230 (2.5x the average purchase price ... Read Full Story
After reviewing the 2010 Ford Taurus SEL AWD for GoodCarBadCar.net, my curiousity was piqued on numerous levels. Concluding that the Taurus's innards were recompense reward for its gargantuan dimensions ended the question of how people live with the problem of finding a garage big enough to hold it. Realizing that people of my generation don't need to buy the Taurus to like the Taurus; and that people of my generation liking the Taurus (even without buying it) is a very good thing for Ford he... Read Full Story
