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2015 Tesla Model S P85D Long-Term Intro: We Embark on Our First-Ever...
-It’s too early to know whether Tesla will amount to an entire chapter or a mere footnote in the annals of automotive history, but the company’s Model S will leave a record here at Car and Driver:...
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2016 BMW 740i Long-Term Test Intro: Setting Sail for 40,000 Miles in BMW’s...
-After 120,000 miles divided among a 2012 BMW 328i sedan, a 2014 BMW 328d xDrive wagon, and a 2015 BMW M3, we’re ready for a respite from the sixth-generation 3-series. Each one of those recent...
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2017 Lamborghini Aventador S First Drive: Raving Bull
-The Italian in the driver’s seat could have fallen from the pages of a men’s fashion magazine. Perfectly tailored suit, meticulously cropped hair, runway gaze everywhere he looks. As he races through...
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Perfectly Bad: 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Tested!
-It’s a curious truth of automotive engineering that, in general, the lower the volume target for a new vehicle, the more effort is invested in perfecting it. Engineers seem to sweat the nuances of a...
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2017 Kia Niro Tested: The Anti-Prius
-The iPod wasn’t the first MP3 player, millennials weren’t the first to point the camera back at the photographer, and the 2017 Kia Niro isn’t the first crossover to package a gas-electric hybrid...
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Pretty Sick: We Ride in the 2017 Ford GT!
-Lap after lap, Scott Maxwell gnaws deeper into the curbing. By drawing a straighter line through a shallow chicane on the road course that lies in the shadow of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the Canadian...
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This $3 Million Machine Tests Car Chassis While They’re Sitting Still
-There is no such thing as a clean-sheet vehicle design in 2017. In its relatively brief existence, the automobile illustrates Darwin’s natural-selection theory better than the platypus, which has...
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Q&A with Matt Becker, Ex-Lotus (and Current Aston Martin) Chassis Whisperer
-From the June 2017 issue-Over a 26-year career at Lotus, Matt Becker has had a hand in the chassis tuning of approximately 50 vehicles, although he can talk publicly about only a handful of them. The...
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Explained: The Five Most Common Automotive Suspensions
-From the June 2017 issue-How, you may wonder, do dynamics engineers determine what kind of hardware to use in a suspension? Here’s the short version: Other people tell them. Engineers must work within...
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2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S Long-Term Test Intro: Transformer of the Mundane
-If you believe that driving is a chore, you’re driving the wrong vehicle. In a car as spirited as the 2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S, driving chores involve ironing out properly wrinkled roads with its...
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2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio First Drive: Mondo Italiano!
-Tennessee’s Central Basin resembles the Italian Alps about as much as Kevin Bacon looks like actual bacon. But on our drive through the Volunteer State, the Alfa Romeo crossover named for the...
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2019 Audi A8 Revealed: Hybrid Assist is Standard
-The auto industry’s version of trickle-down economics says today’s six-figure almost-limos foreshadow tomorrow’s entry-level premium cars and next week’s middle-class sedans and family crossovers. So...
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Variable Valve Timing Explained: An Appreciation of How Quickly Engines Operate
-From the August 2017 issue-When it comes to the many variables of combustion inside an engine, engineers measure the timing of key events in degrees of crankshaft rotation, a relative frame of...
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2018 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo First Drive: Business in Back, Party up...
-German automakers are masters of spinning a single nameplate into an extensive spread of variants, with none better at doing so than Porsche. The Stuttgart-based brand slices its hallmark 911 into 22...
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Gumshoes: Five Sticky Summer-Performance Tires Tested
-You’ve likely heard the timeless wisdom that tires are the most important component on your car. It’s true. Assuming your car is equipped with functioning braking and steering systems, plus seatbelts...
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2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid First Drive: Porsche’s Performance Future
-A diet of Red Bull and Sour Patch Kids is bad for children. Too much screen time stunts cognitive development. Nothing good can come from all that fidget spinning. But we simply cannot get on board...
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Autonomous-Car Regulations: Lawmakers Are Ready To Let Go of the Steering Wheel
-Earlier this fall, not long after Senate Republicans sank their party’s seven-year assault on Obamacare, the House of Representatives did something almost unthinkable in the era of Congressional...
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How the Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man Pulls Off Those Fresh Moves
-From the October 2017 issue-Because a 1998 Plymouth Breeze no longer turns heads as it once did, used-car salesmen are masters of countless attention-grabbing gimmicks. Among the tactics, no shtick is...
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2018 Jaguar XF S Sportbrake Driven: Grace, Pace, and More Space
-When the second-generation Jaguar XF arrived in 2016 it made a splash no bigger than a raindrop falling into the Atlantic. Despite moving onto a new architecture and gaining two new four-cylinder...
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2018 Jaguar XJR575 First Drive: A Light-Footed Alternative
-There’s no mistaking how much power Jaguar’s new XJR575 makes. It’s right there in the name, the three digits contained therein declaring the 575 hard-charging horses stuffed under the hood of the...
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Hot-Hatch Showdown! Ford Focus RS vs. Honda Civic Type R
-Making power is but one variable in going fast. The upper echelon of performance—occupied by the mega-output Germans, big-muscled Corvettes and Hellcats, and, of course, Italian exotica—now depends on...
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2018 BMW M5 First Drive: A Return to the Faith?
-It’s tempting to characterize the traditional flagship cars—the large, top-of-the-line sedans such as BMW’s 7-series and Mercedes-Benz’s S-class—as the ultimate embodiment of brand values. But at...
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2018 Audi TT RS Tested: Five Cylinders, Four Rings, 3.4 Seconds
-Respect, in the year 2017, is not earned. It is alternately assigned and rescinded by fanboys and trolls warring on the internet. He who makes the last argument wins. READ MORE ››-
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Model T to Modern Mercedes: Testing the Evolution of Headlights from 1916 to...
-From the December 2017 issue-From the moment electric headlights snuffed out kerosene and acetylene lamps in the 1910s, automakers have struggled to illuminate the road without blinding oncoming...
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2018 BMW i3s Driven: A Little Less Zen
-The BMW i3 is packed with clever engineering. Its carbon-fiber passenger cell rides on an aluminum skateboard chassis propelled by an electric motor powered by a lithium-ion battery that can get a...
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Automakers See Big Potential in Raising the Octane of Regular Unleaded Fuel
-From the February 2018 issue-In the unrelenting pursuit of a more efficient internal-combustion engine, automakers are hoping that their dealer will help wean them off the very drug they’re hooked on....
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Driving from the Middle of the Car Is About to Make a Comeback: Here Are the...
-Twenty years after production of the coveted F1 supercar ended, McLaren will again put drivers in the center seat with its new $2 million-plus grand tourer codenamed BP23. The British racing...
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Power Drunk: The New BMW M5 Takes On the CTS-V, E63 S, and Panamera Turbo!
-Our test of 600-hp cars nine years ago looked very different from this one. Fenders bulged. Eight-, 10-, and 12-cylinder engines boomed. Hoods stretched to the horizon—except for that of the Italian,...
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