From the September 1987 issue of Car and Driver. The road to Payson. Grand, sweeping arcs through the sagebrush. A fresh Arizona morning, warm and bright, the sun’s anger still hours away. The dirty lumps on the horizon are the Mazatzal Mountains, far distant for a normal machine. But at 130 mph, in a tiny […] More
View Photos Clifford AtiyehCar and Driver With few exceptions, the badging on the back of most Mercedes-Benz models hasn’t related to engine displacement in more than a decade. So, the E350 badge on the back of the 2020 Mercedes-Benz E-class sedan doesn’t mean there’s a 3.5-liter anything under the hood. However, the E350 does wear […] More
Ah yes, 1998. Back when life was simple. Presidential scandals involved blue dresses and google wasn’t really a verb yet. It was a time of Game Boys and MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch. Best of all, cars such as the Acura Integra, Volkswagen GTI, and the Toyota Celica had clean, straightforward designs. The world made sense. All […] More
The hue of the Valencia Red Pearl paint on the 2020 Acura TLX PMC Edition bends light across the car’s body with stunning effect. Taking five days to apply and cure in the same high-tech clean room of a factory that the brand uses to assemble its NSX supercar, the lustrous, metallic-red finish looks deep […] More
View Photos Michael SimariCar and Driver What if Tommi Mäkinen, one of Subaru’s former World Rally Championship drivers, somehow slid off the road in 2002 and became cryogenically frozen in a glacier for 18 years? If he were thawed out now, there would be much about this world he would not understand. What are these […] More
From the December 1995 issue of Car and Driver. It’s not the purple stripes that trigger the double takes. Not the purple competition seatbelts, either. It’s mostly the steering wheel on the right-hand side that elicits the gasps. Lord knows, this Subaru Impreza wagon’s squat, boxy shape otherwise attracts about as much attention as a […] More
View Photos Michael SimariCar and Driver This is very likely the least expensive new Porsche 911 you’ll ever lay eyes on. At $106,290, it has a mere $7540 in options, which, if you don’t believe is a picture of restraint, go spend a few minutes on Porsche’s online configurator. This car had just four add-ons: […] More
View Photos Jessica Lynn WalkerCar and Driver The 2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid Coupe makes it hard to hate on SUVs. Someone at Porsche went down the list of reasons the high-riding machines get a bad rap and crossed them out one by one. Weak-sauce performance? Nope, this one’s as spicy as a 670-hp […] More
