Wpg Canada Automobile Information
The Ford Mustang really is just a one-trick pony. And that trick is impression. It won’t matter if you don’t like coupes or you don’t like North American cars in general, or Ford specifically or even if you think sports cars are supposed to have more supposed to have more substance than just raw power. [...]
Jan 18, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
The good news is that it is no longer based on the outgoing North American model, which was tepid at best. Finally, we in Canada get to enjoy the same car that has been lauded in Europe for many years. In the end, it gives Ford an enviable lineup of passengers cars. Exterior style aside, [...]
Jan 15, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Honda’s announcement that it was returning to 500cc grand prix racing in 1979, after an absence of 12 years, caused less of a sensation than the news that their GP contender was a four-stroke, at a time when two-strokes seemed to rule GP races. Moreover, it quickly became apparent that this engine was really an [...]
Dec 28, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
To start with, not much of Ram was changed, thought there are still plenty of reasons that make the new Dodge Ram stand out from its’ competitors. One of the most notable feature of all new Rams now is the rear coil-spring suspension with trailing arms to locate the live axle. This change saves about [...]
Dec 22, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
When the Triumph company decided in the mid-Thirties that its future was in the production of automobiles and threatened to close down the motorcycles side of the business, Ariel chief Jack Sangster stepped in and set up a deal under which two-wheeler production continued under the management of Edward Turner, designer of the Ariel Square [...]
Dec 19, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Were the British motorcycle manufacturers too conservative or did the Japanese catch them napping? Whatever it was, the arrival of the Honda 750 in 1969 was followed by a flood of other multi-cylinder bikes that dealt a devastating blow to the British industry. In one last desperate effort, the leading British makers attempted to reestablish [...]
Dec 16, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Like the mythological Phoenix, one of the great English marques has risen from the ashes. Triumph, which built its first two-wheelers in 1902, went down with the parent BSA group in 1972 and was taken over by a government-backed workers’ cooperative that, unfortunately, ran out of money at the start of the Eighties. But the [...]
Dec 13, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The family of off-road bikes is a large one, where each branch is based on a very different philosophy. There are bikes suitable for use off- and on-road, trail bikes, trials bikes, enduros, scramblers, and motocross machines. Motocross has been called “mechanized steeple chasing.” It’s a more sophisticated form of the British sport of scrambling [...]
Dec 10, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
The Manx Norton combine a long career with a long record of success. Norton already had an impressive lists of victories to its name when in 1930, Arthur Carroll redesigned the firm’s over head-cam mode. Between 1931 and 1939, Nortons won race after race: in 1932, road going versions of the works TT racers were [...]
Dec 07, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
In 1920, Carlo Guzzi astounded the world by unveiling his first motorcycle, a horizontal single-cylinder 500cc with a single overhead camshaft and four-valve head with twin spark plugs. It was, however, still a prototype and when it came to series production the following year, costs demanded a simplified design. But the first production Moto Guzzi [...]
Dec 04, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
