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The age of front-engine supercars is over, they say. Finished. Kaput. Mid-engine is where it’s at, just ask the Chevrolet Corvette. But the crowd at the Cars & Coffee gathering says otherwise. The 2020 Mercedes-AMG GT R roadster may have its twin-turbo V-8 mounted between its grille and its dashboard, but it’s been swarmed since […] More
South Africa is always a long way away, but our visit in February now seems distant in more than just geographic terms, coming as it did in the last weeks of a pre-pandemic world. We traveled to Cape Town to drive a late-development prototype of the revised Bentayga, the story set to coincide with what […] More
From the Archive: Ford hits a homerun with its radically styled and superb Taurus sedan. More
From the February 1991 Issue of Car and Driver. Here are twelve things you should know about the Ferrari F40: • Its sticker price is $399,150.• But dealers are getting about $700,000 for one, a bargain from last summer’s peak price of $900,000 and change.• The price does not include a spare tire or a […] More
Toyota’s plug-in RAV4 has 302 horsepower, stretches a gallon of gas, can tow up to 2500 pounds, and will beat a four-cylinder Supra in a few acceleration tests. More
View Photos Jessica Lynn WalkerCar and Driver When you buy a convertible Ferrari, what you’re buying is a front-row seat to the internal-combustion show. Well, at least it should be. When there’s a 710-hp twin-turbo 3.9-liter V-8 so close you can smell the heat coming off it, you sort of expect that when you park […] More
Electrification will be a big change for the M division of BMW, and if the most radical predictions come true, driving will be very different in 10 years. Count us among the skeptical, but if we are wrong, the new BMW M3 and M4, which we just drove in prototype form, may indeed be the […] More
The 2021 Porsche Cayenne GTS coupe’s twin-turbo V-8 makes it feel powerful and fast. Its massive exhaust pipes make it sound cool. But it’s the integration of that stirring V-8 in the Cayenne lineup’s most aggressive chassis setup that makes it good. As what we’d consider the driver’s pick among big Porsche SUVs, the mid-range […] More
