Car Reviews

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

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