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    2020 Ram 2500 Power Wagon Remains a Hulking Heavy-Duty Off-Roader

    Is it yeehaw, yee-ha, or yahoo? Never mind, it doesn’t matter. Whichever rebel yell you prefer, it’s appropriate from the driver’s seat of the 2020 Ram 2500 Power Wagon, which continues as Ram’s high-riding four-wheel-drive monolith that’s been upgraded with both attitude and hard-core off-road hardware. HIGHS: Serious off-road hardware with a warranty, climbs hills […] More

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    The Great Compromise: McLaren 600LT vs. GT

    It’s a dilemma. The truly desirable McLaren is the M8B that Bruce McLaren himself used in 1969 to slaughter that year’s Can-Am season. Or it’s the MP4/4 in which Ayrton Senna earned his first Formula 1 Championship, in 1988. Maybe you’d argue for the F1, the street-legal V-12-powered beast of the 1990s that anyone with […] More

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    2021 BMW 430i and M440i Set Themselves Apart from Their 3-Series Kin

    The camouflage stickers on our prototype are drawing plenty of attention, but the camouflage is doing its job. The most interesting feature remains well hidden. Under the wrap is the next-generation BMW 4-series’ retro-futuristic, vertical kidney grille. Said to be inspired by pre-war BMW models like the two-seat 328, the new grille and the two […] More

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    2020 Chevrolet Bolt EV Has Greater Range but Little Swagger

    View Photos Joey CapparellaCar and Driver The Chevrolet Bolt EV was on top of the world when it debuted in 2016. At a time when most affordable EVs struggled to go even 100 miles on a charge, the Bolt was a revolution that promised an EPA-rated 238 miles of range for less than $40,000. But […] More

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    2020 Cadillac CT4-V Down on Power, But Not Out

    View Photos Michael SimariCar and Driver The decades following your centennial are an unusual time for teenage self-discovery, but that’s exactly where Cadillac finds itself. Multiple reinventions in recent years and regular product reengineerings have brought about dramatic model repositioning as well. The CTS went from being a tweener betwixt established luxury segments as defined […] More

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    Our Long-Term 2019 Mercedes-Benz E450 Wagon Was a Love Story

    40,000-Mile Wrap-Up Around these parts—okay, in our heads—modern wagons park on the same pedestal as proper exotics. We hardly think twice when a Mercedes-Benz E-class sedan pulls up next to us at a stoplight. But an E-class wagon? That evokes pangs of envy and longing. In our mind’s eye, this wagon’s long-roof shape is the […] More

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    Tested: 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300TE

    From the August 1988 issue of Car and Driver. Driving the Mercedes 300TE station wagon is like having Gregory Peck for your father. If you’ve ever seen Gentleman’s Agreementor To Kill a Mockingbird, you know what we’re talking about: a character of incorruptible morals, devoted family dude, solid citizen, conservative dresser, reliable as the sun, […] More

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    Tested: 1998 Mercedes-Benz E320 Wagon

    From the February 1998 issue of Car and Driver. Following America’s pioneer days, fossil-fueled conveyances came to the Old West even slower than potty stops came to Comanche country. Our westwardly mobile pioneers used the Conestoga wagon, which could haul through hell and high water an entire household, including the missus’s kitchen sink. Our Mercedes […] More