Publication: The Vancouver Province
ByLine: Bob McHugh
Date: Wed 23 Apr 2008

A 2008 Chevrolet Impala lies behind that attention-grabbing paint job on my test drive this week. The other interesting thing about this vehicle is that it came with an almost full tank of E85 (85-per-cent ethanol) fuel.
The reason that’s unusual is that there are only three E85 filling stations in Canada and all of them are in Ontario. From a B.C. perspective, why would you buy a vehicle that runs on E85 fuel? And for that matter, what’s the point in even trying to sell them? Read the rest of this entry »

Original Publisher: The Gazette

For a number of years, when friends and family members who were not into cars asked my advice on what was a good, safe, reliable family sedan that wasn’t too expensive, I would mentally go through my list of what was new, what I’d driven recently and what I knew was coming up, before invariably concluding with: “Of course, you can’t go wrong with either the Honda Accord or Toyota Camry.”

For more than two decades, those two cars’ near-bulletproof reputations have earned them the right to be standard-bearers for the mid-size sedan segment. Over the past couple of years, and certainly since its redesign in 2006, I have added the Chevrolet Impala to my list of fallback stalwarts.

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