Late last year, General Motors (GM) announced that it would close a plant in Ontario, Canada, to save money. In recent months, the company has backtracked on that decision, saving over 300 jobs. However, the plant current employs 2,600 workers, so many more will still lose their jobs. The plant in Oshawa, east of Toronto was scheduled to close completely at the end of this … [Read more...]
The HTT Plethore
Motoring Weekly seems to have a habit of finding Canada’s “first” supercar - which suggests to me that all the developers of these cars do not know much about their own local industry! Over the past couple of months we have written about the MCV CH4 and the De Macross GT1, both of which claimed the title of being first. Here’s another: the HTT Plethore, and like the other two, … [Read more...]
The De Macross Epique GT1
Motoring Weekly recently published an article about the MCV CH4, a Canadian supercar that sadly never made to full production. I’ve found another car that has been described variously as the first or only Canadian supercar: the de Macross GT1. This car was developed in the late 2000s - not a great time to be launching a bespoke, limited run supercar considering that the world … [Read more...]
The MCV CH4
One of the great things about writing motoring articles is that I find many cars that just didn’t make it. This is one of them from the 1990s and some articles blamed the Internet for its demise, however that really wasn’t the cause for the failure. The story begins in Canada during the early 1990s when a team was formed with many complementary skills and all focused on … [Read more...]
Conquest Knight XV
I saw a photo of a military style vehicle called the Conquest Knight XV and wondered who made it and why. Conquest Vehicles is a Canadian company specialising in “ultra luxurious, fully armoured and handcrafted sport utility vehicles”! They build two vehicles, the unarmoured Evade and the fully armoured Knight XV. Both vehicles are based on the Ford F550 Super Duty … [Read more...]