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Canada’s First Lemon Law Works Fine, If You Have $50,000 For Lawyers

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A new car buyer endured 16 months of issues with her Chevrolet Equinox EV. Quebec’s lemon law is relatively new to Canada, but it still has its limitations. Experts say court proceedings can cost $15K–$50K in legal fees for consumers. A Quebec woman’s experience with her newly purchased electric car has cast doubt over the usefulness of Canada’s first anti-lemon legislation and has supposedly revealed its flaws. In December 2024, Natalina Recine bought a new electric Chevrolet Equinox EV, but since then, her car has been at the dealer almost as much as it’s been on the road. The problems started when the battery failed to charge a few days after the purchase, and it took weeks for the dealer to identify the issue and replace the car’s computer module. For 16 months after she bought the car, Recine has been frustrated, tired, and driving to the dealership. The Problems And The Law Speaking to CT...
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A 2003 Land Rover Defender 90 Makes 120 HP And Somehow Made Me Want To Keep The Keys

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Most people corner me about which new hybrid SUV to buy. My friend Steph is not most people. She is happily stuck with an icon from another era, the classic Land Rover Defender 90, her vehicle of choice for more than a decade. Over the years, the Defender has raked up miles being driven everywhere from the potholed streets of Athens to endless highways, rocky mountains and remote beaches. Her passion for this boxy thing made me really curious to drive it. Luckily she was kind enough to hand over the keys so I could experience the “Defender magic” first-hand. But let’s start with the basics. A Long-Serving Nameplate The Defender carries one of the longest stories in motoring, traceable to the 1948 Land Rover Series I . The nameplate gathered significant upgrades across a 33 year production run that ended in 2016, before the unrelated second-generation model arrived in 2019. The original never lost its utilitarian DNA, which is wh...
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