Numbers have come in for Canada's best selling cars and light trucks for the first third of 2013. Clinching the number one spot is the Hyundai Elantra, who's sales are up 3.9% from the same period a year ago, overtaking the Honda Civic. The Civic's sales when compared to a year ago have dropped significantly, they're down 17.6%, despite being built in Ontario. One factor may be that Canadians like hatchbacks. The Elantra offers a hatchback model but the Civic is only available in sedan and coupe versions. If Honda decides to bring back the Civic hatch, Canadians might be more interested.

How to choose between the 2019 Mazda3 Sport and the 2019 Hyundai Elantra GT N-Line? We compare two solid little hatchbacks with at least some sportiness to them, though maybe not quite as much as their outfits would have you believe.

Hyundai says it is cutting manual transmissions from the product offering for some variants of two of its models: the Elantra sedan and the Veloster. The Elantra hatchback will continue to get it, as will a smaller number of Veloster versions.

The 2020 Hyundai Sonata will gain some added battery power and thus range from a newly developed solar roof. But this added range won’t really be felt by owners day-to-day; the boost in battery range is tiny and is only really noticeable over the long haul.