James LipmanCar and Driver Now that vitriol is the official language of our national discourse, skepticism doesn’t just come easy, it’s ever-present background noise, the tinnitus of an angry and distrustful world. So yeah, we’re a little incredulous about the Toyota Camry TRD. A Camry—the pillar of bland family fare—made into a sports sedan? Sure […] More
Marc UrbanoCar and Driver The X5 sat at the top of the BMW SUV lineup for 13 years, and then last year, the larger X7 arrived and became the brand’s biggest and most luxurious SUV. We’ve previously tested the X7 40i and the X7 50i, but to properly shake the X7 down, we invited BMW’s […] More
Marc UrbanoCar and Driver Porsche claims its new Taycan EV can charge at a rate of 270 kW, a new record, which requires plugging in at one of Electrify America’s latest 350-kW units. Tesla is also rolling out higher-output 250-kW V3 Superchargers. We tried each car’s fastest fast charger to compare the charge rates between […] More
40,000-Mile Wrap-Up Automakers use the phrase “all-new” with the same broad license that Subway applies to “fresh.” True clean-sheet designs are rare in this business, and there’s a reason engineers typically don’t rewrite the whole recipe. Change too many variables at once and you risk breaking something that wasn’t broken. But 93-year-old Volvo has spent […] More
In previous incarnations of this journal, the procedure for writing a headline for a comparison test similar to this one would have been to add up the peak horsepower of all the participants, add an exclamation point or two or three, and be done with the thing. But in these more enlightened times, simply typing […] More
Marc UrbanoCar and Driver We’ve already published a comparison test between the Porsche Taycan Turbo S and the Tesla Model S Performance. Now we’re breaking down our test results to compare the two electric cars’ range numbers. We ran both cars at the same time on the same loop at 75 mph, and arrived at […] More
Marc UrbanoCar and Driver Explaining to your neighbor that the 2020 BMW X5 M50i you just bought isn’t the full-tilt X5 M SUV could be difficult. As BMW’s half-tilt M Performance model, it scores above the regular V-8–powered X5 xDrive50i, yet it’s not quite the fire-breathing range topper. But the X5 M50i’s V-8 still roars, […] More
In our imagination, Porsche’s marketing department in Stuttgart is surrounded by a herringbone pattern of perfectly parked cars, each expertly maneuvered into a space with only fractions of an inch to spare. Why do we imagine that? Because Porsche folks are so good at finding niches. HIGHS: Lovely handling for an SUV, impressive ride comfort, […] More
