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As much as I love my job, being a food critic would be pretty cool, too. Just imagine all the amazing meals that fellow Free Press writer Marion Warhaft has enjoyed. Culinary delights from all corners of the globe served up in Winnipeg's hottest restaurants. Spicy Thai food, gourmet pizza, prime …

The trick to the knock-off, as the haute couture industry so assiduously proves every fashion season, is to always emulate something more expensive. The same applies to car design. While it's always enviable to imbue the styling cues of a more expensive brand in your econo-car, the inverse is seldom welcomed …

I like crossovers. In suburban settings, they are a far more palatable alternative to the heavier, bulkier and more traditional sport-utes that used to rumble along the streets of my neighbourhood. There's been a lot more of the former and a lot less of the latter since the price of …

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- It's the curse of the successful sibling: No matter how bright, beautiful or beguiling you might be, you'll always be in the shadows. Can you imagine being Brad Pitt's brother? You could be a dolphin-saving volunteer pediatric heart surgeon with a scratch handicap and you're still not going …

So you're pining for a Camaro but are over age 30? Or perhaps you like the idea of a powerful coupe but desire one with the kind of sophistication that suits your lifestyle -- and happens to be made in America as opposed to Germany or Japan. Let me direct your …

YOU might slice a finger on the fenders of my starkly geometric 2012 SRX, a crossover as raw-boned and edgy as a skinny Seattle trash-rock band. Of course, that's just Cadillac these days: tall and vertical with aggressive, almost angry lines shooting down the sides and pushing up surfaces in the …

Pity Audi's poor TT. No matter what it does, it's still branded a "chick car," that demeaning-to-women misnomer that implies it's wimpy. You know, a sporty visage on the outside but wearing frilly lingerie underneath. While the Porsche Cayman gets all manner of props for being a manly man's choice for …

MONTICELLO, N.Y. -- I hate indecision. I like mine to be a simple world of black and white. This made my waffling over my favourite car a few months ago mildly disturbing. Unable to decide between the Mini Cooper S and the BMW 135i for my Editor's Picks, I simply declared …

PARK CITY, Utah -- Logic would seem to have little to do with the purchase of a motorcycle. Certainly, applying logic to what one thinks motorcyclists will buy seems as silly as a man attempting to purchase shoes for the woman in his life -- he may understand the basic componentry …

I have a confession. Although I must evaluate all the motorcycles I test based on their performance, quality, reliability and handling, the attribute most important to me personally is its seating position. Give me a specific relationship between handlebar, seat and footpeg and I will be a happy camper as long as …