From sage shopping advice to sales breakdowns to Canadian success stories, you clicked on a wide range of stories last year
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A small analog ticker resides in the basement of Driving, right next to our Managing Editor’s grog ration of Ketel One vodka, quietly counting each visit to each page on the site. Okay, maybe it’s more of a line in the site’s programming code which keeps track of those things, but you get the point. We’ve been logging which stories you clicked on the most, and now that the old year is out, we have the tally totals.
These ten feature stories stood out most to you this year, apparently, bringing you and readers like yourself back for a variety of reasons — all of which have to do with cars and our appreciation of them. Here are the 10 feature-story posts that saw the most web traffic this year.
2024’s 10 most and least reliable vehicles, per Consumer Reports
‘Rust Bros’ ’68 Chevy cross-country winter trip ends in irony
Canada’s 10 worst-selling vehicles in 2024’s first half
Troubleshooter: Think before flashing your high-beams
Lorraine Explains: Is a solution to car theft right in front of our eyes?
The scourge of vehicle theft has reached a zenith in Canada of late, with machines regularly vanishing from people’s driveways and generally loaded into shipping containers for parts unknown. Our security expert Lorraine Sommerfeld (and expert in many other subjects, it must be said) mused about familiar solutions which may be staring us right in the face when it comes to solving – or at least tempering – car theft.
Canada’s 9 most fuel-efficient cars of 2024
Driving Worst Picks: 10 Cars that let us down most in 2023
Building on the morbid curiosity of the year’s worst-selling vehicles, as mentioned above, it seems our readers were keen to learn which cars and trucks we didn’t like in 2023. While it is accurate to say the days of truly bad cars are long behind us, there are plenty of puzzling details and infuriating characteristics which can cause a vehicle to land on a list such as this one.
Halifax entrepreneur grows fortunes with Ford EV pickup
Best minivans in Canada and everything you need to know about minivans
Man tries selling rare Hemi-powered Plymouth to fund health care bills
Ridiculous Vehicle: 6 of the Most outrageous motorhomes
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