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    Tested: 2020 Mercedes-AMG GLC43 Coupe Proves to be Fun If Odd-Looking

    View Photos Marc UrbanoCar and Driver A coupe is colloquially known as a two-door car. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) classifies a coupe as a vehicle with less than 33 cubic feet of rear-seat space. The Mercedes-AMG GLC43 coupe meets neither of those requirements, but that doesn’t stop Mercedes from calling this slope-back AMG-tweaked […] More

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    2020 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Doesn't Really Need All-Wheel Drive

    View Photos Marc UrbanoCar and Driver This is our 74,416th review of a Porsche 911. It’s long been our goal to test every version of Porsche’s rear-engine sports car, but there’s more to this quest than pure journalistic curiosity. It’s as much about love, admiration, and respect. Sure, we’re eager to report on the changes […] More

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    Tested: 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera Ends the Air-Cooled Chapter of the 911 Story

    From the June 1994 Issue of Car and Driver Would we offend someone if we called the Porsche 911 a religious icon? Probably. But clearly, the 911 doctrine—the gospel according to Ferdinand—keeps packing ‘em into the pews. The Stuttgart sect of the sports-car faithful observes its longstanding tradition (30 years of production), inviolable orthodoxy (the […] More

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    Turbo Car vs. Turbo Bike: 1978 Porsche 930 Turbo vs. Kawasaki Z1-R TC

    From the August 1979 issue of Car and Driver. It is quiet at Road Atlanta. Too quiet. Summer is invading the hills and hollows, and afternoons tend to move slowly in this part of the country, but the stillness today is unwelcome. We are dead in the water, staring at a car and a motorcycle […] More

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    Tested: 1997 Honda CR-V Launches Honda into the SUV Race

    From the April 1997 issue of Car and Driver. With the mini-sport-ute phenom in full flower, perhaps you’ve noticed that the ruling school of design seems obsessed with creating a kind of rolling athletic shoe, the sort of garish sneakers that give your feet the appearance of being stuck in an acid flashback. In this […] More

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    2020 Cadillac CT5 V-6 Gives Us Reason to Hope

    View Photos Michael SimariCar and Driver Cadillac has a sedan problem. All it takes to realize it is to look at the brand’s sales. In the last decade or so, Cadillac has built its share of great sedans: the ATS, the CTS, all of the high-performance V models. Even the CT6 was fun to drive, […] More

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    Tested: 1994 Cadillac Sedan de Ville Has Room to Spare

    From the October 1993 issue of Car and Driver. There is one outstanding requirement that Cadillac’s Sedan de Ville has to meet: when the owner, his wife, and their two kids pick up the grandfolks on Sunday on their way to the pancake house, they want to take just one car. That’s the message that […] More

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    Tested: 2004 Porsche Carrera GT Defines Magnificent

    From the June 2004 issue of Car and Driver. Ferdinand Porsche would be proud of the Carrera GT. The company he founded in 1948 has produced an amazing string of sports cars that was only recently interrupted by—of all things—a truck. If the introduction of that Cayenne sport-ute had you wondering if the folks from […] More