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Look at enough crossovers, and they tend to blur into a homogeneous blob of inoffensive two-box shapes—useful, yes, but seldom interesting. The crossover is a jack of all trades, master of none, except for the one that involves making money for automakers. At that, crossovers are very good, and the three-row Atlas SUV has been […] More
From the February 2011 Issue of Car and Driver. It’s big. With its S-class sedan underpinnings (on an 8.3-inch-shorter wheelbase), uninhibited dimensions, and too-long-at-dinner mass (4699 pounds), the new Mercedes CL550 (modestly face lifted, generously adrenalized) is one of the largest four-seat coupes on earth. Only the Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé is bigger. HIGHS: Habit-forming power, elegant […] More
From the February 1980 issue of Car and Driver. Hey man. I got a bus, you got a bus, all God’s flower children got a bus. 2022 Volkswagen Microbus Self-Driving Electric VW Shuttles Coming to Qatar VWs EV Microbus Conversion Is Tech Plus Old School The VW microbus was as much a part of the […] More
From the February 1984 issue of Car and Driver. It is the evil weevil, the rock-solid, steely-eyed grim reaper of sporting cars, the paragon of knife-edged incisiveness and buttoned-down insanity. More than any other factory-fresh passenger car available here today, the Porsche 911 Carrera is the absolute embodiment of clench-jawed, tightfisted, slit-eyed enthusiasm run amok, […] More
View Photos WOLFGANG FALKCar and Driver From the January 1990 issue of Car and Driver. It’s a scene right out of a movie, a fantasy that only the Germans and a few lucky visitors will ever live. The headlights of a bright-red Porsche 911 Carrera 2 drill twin cones through the lifting morning mist. The […] More
From the Archive: Porsche’s first 911 convertible. More
View Photos Michael SimariCar and Driver If you’re a luxury car company aspiring to succeed in the United States today, you’d better have a strong three-row crossover in your showroom. Lexus was oddly without one for years, instead offering only its ancient body-on-frame GX and LX SUVs as its family-friendly options. We’re not sure why […] More
From the June 1998 issue of Car and Driver. It’s easy to say that upstart luxury carmaker Lexus got its start by copying Mercedes-Benz, but that’s not quite the truth. No doubt, the sedan that Lexus introduced in 1989 as its flagship, the LS400, was a refined, V-8–powered, leather-lined sedan with styling that clearly had […] More
