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Lincoln is get-ting a new car and a new name designed to reverse 20 years of falling sales. The 97-year old luxury brand, synonymous with presidential limos and black Town Cars, is returning to its original name, Lincoln Motor Co.

At $19,998 for a brand-new 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan, it's easy to see why Chrysler is the dominant player in the minivan market.

Sean Powell remembers the bad old days. S In the mid-1990s, the veteran RCMP corporal, a rookie in Coquitlam at the time, saw cars stolen on a continual basis.

If change is good, a total redesign should be even better in the automotive world. In the case of Ford's Escape compact crossover, a complete makeover has transformed a competent crossover into something magnificent.

If you're one of those drivers who like to hear a performance engine sing while being pushed back in your seat, the 2013 Porsche Boxster S is your car. With a 7,800-r.p.m.

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Check out these highlights on the driving.ca portion of our website, timescolonist.com The Los Angeles Auto Show opens today, and we've got reporters and photographers all over the show to dig out what's new and exciting in all things automotive.

Investors looking for new places to park their cash in Hong Kong are driving up prices for parking spaces, sparking fears of a bubble in the Asian financial centre.

EV news of the past week: The Los Angeles Auto Show has given North Americans two more EVs to choose from: ? The Spark EV is a five-door, five-passenger pure-electric fitted with a 20-plus kilowatt-hour battery pack driving the front wheels.