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If it weren’t for the piles of money on the line, there would be something rather childish about German automakers and their never-ending match game. As they busy themselves inventing new niches and body styles, BMW and Mercedes-Benz keep one eye on ensuring that the other carmaker doesn’t have anything in its portfolio without a […] More
There’s a goodness that Kia has figured out how to bake into its newer SUVs, most notably its mid-size three-row Telluride. While the Korean brand’s latest box on wheels, the new 2021 Seltos, may be tough to classify—it sits right on the subcompact/compact border—it’s apparent after just a few minutes behind the wheel that it […] More
It would be easy to fill pages with moon-eyed poetry praising the intoxicating zing of the new 718 GTS’s 4.0-liter flat-six engine. Oh, the noises it makes hunting down the glory of 7800 rpm, all the while electrifying scalps, tingling spines, and purpling prose. Yet perhaps the most telling change over its four-cylinder turbocharged predecessor […] More
Two-stroke engines aren’t dead. Well, they might be in cars, but they’re more alive than ever in snowmobiles. Forget the smoke-spewing, spark-plug-fouling, expletive-inducing engines of the past. Bombardier’s Rotax engine division builds modern two-strokes that are clean, efficient, and powerful. In the booming high-altitude mountain-snowmobile segment, the naturally aspirated engine struggle is real. Free-breathing engines […] More
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
