Welcome to our round-up of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from this past week. Get caught up and ready to get on with the weekend, because it’s hard keeping pace in a digital traffic jam.
Here’s what you missed while you were away.
Honda reveals 2022 Civic Hatchback
The five-door version of Canada’s best selling car 23 years running, the Honda Civic Hatchback, has arrived for the 2022 model year. Revealed during a digital DJ set, the car is aimed squarely at the young and active, but who doesn’t appreciate a fun little car with a supremely useful rear end? Even more exciting, for the 2022 model year, Honda is offering Canadians the option of a manual transmission in all three of the available trims. Check out the first look and the full reveal.
i8 driver arrested for failing to signal while darting through traffic
Signalling a turn is not optional if you’re operating a vehicle on a public Canadian road. It doesn’t matter if you’re riding a bike, moving a tractor, or driving a new electric vehicle — you’ve got to hit that flicker, or get that arm in the air. An Ontario BMW i8 driver who temporarily forgot, or ignored his turn signals while speedily navigating highway traffic, shows us what happens if you fail to perform this very basic and essential driving habit. The man was handed a $400 fine, six demerit points, and most consequentially, arrested.
Upcoming Audi RS 3 to get drift mode, rear-axle torque splitter
Audi’s smallest sedan doesn’t suffer from split personality disorder, it benefits from it. In fact, it will be the RS 3 will be the first Audi to be served up with a RS Torque Splitter that divvies up torque between the rear wheels, allowing the car to slip into RS Torque Rear mode. It’s essentially a drift mode and not to be used on public roads, or, on the other end of the spectrum, RS Performance Mode, which eliminates all under and oversteer to focus on lap times. The RS 3 will be revealed in full on July 19.
A Florida law firm is filing a class-action lawsuit against the Genesis GV80
Corwin Law, a firm based in Boca Raton, is pointing the legal finger at Hyundai on behalf of owners and lessees of the Genesis GV80, claiming the SUV is unsafe and suffers from issues that cause it to “shake, shudder and vibrate.” The law firm alleges the brand is actively “promoting the GV80 luxury SUV, despite being aware of dangerous defects affecting the vehicle’s driveability that are documented in Korean news media and current customer message boards.” Click here to read about the U.S. doctor who apparently experienced the issues first hand on the vehicle’s very first trip.
Incidences of police vehicles being rammed are on the rise
Peel Regional Police recently released stats pointing to a growing trend in Canadian crime: using vehicles to ram police vehicles. The regional authority reports that its force’s cars were rammed 23 separate times in incidents of drivers trying to escape the law, and that’s just in the first five months of this year! Video footage of one such occurrence shows how a driver who’d been boxed in by police vehicles attempted to smash his way through, and the case of a Brampton man charged with attempted murder demonstrates the possible legal fallout.
The Link LonkJune 26, 2021 at 05:05PM
https://ift.tt/3wZNeWE
News Roundup: The 2022 Honda Civic Hatchback, a new Audi with drift mode, and more - Driving
https://ift.tt/38hkzRl
Honda
No comments:
Post a Comment