David Booth

The $2.5 billion the federal and provincial governments have promised will do nothing to save automotive manufacturing 'Politics,' Groucho Marx once said, 'is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying t... See more

Indeed, it's kind of hard to believe that anyone — even a government that seems to have no understanding of how automobile are produced — could think there's a reason for Canadian automakers to build more EVs, especially since, like every other vehicle bu... See more

In return, those automakers could continue to ship cars from Canada to the U.S. tariff-free as they did under CUSMA. With a few additions — such as a proviso that non-market economies would not be eligible for any of these reduced tariff benefits — Beatty... See more

Normally, I'd be loath to make this admission in a vehicular road test, but managing expectations is as much a part of autojournalism as it is consumer satisfaction. Expect little and the slightest soupcon of overachievement is praised like the second com... See more

Accessing exotic cars is my superpower. Actually, it's my only power. I wish I had more. In fact, the list of things I'd like to do better is long and includes — but is not, as legal beagles so often stress, limited to — having the prescience to predict f... See more