Reviews

From the May 1965 Issue of Car and Driver Not content with his Cobra-Powered-by-Ford, Carroll Shelby has now come up with a Ford-Powered-by-Cobra. The Ford in question is the “fastback” Mustang, and Shelby’s merry men have stuffed a burr of some size and effectiveness under its metaphorical saddle. The result is that while the Mustang […] More

From the June 1999 issue of Car and Driver. Audi’s new TT, which goes on sale as you read this, is perhaps the most extraordinary and interesting vehicle we’ve driven since the Plymouth Prowler. Its sensual styling—vaguely retro in its streamlined Bauhaus cues—is completely fresh inside and out. Its turbocharged 1.8-liter, five-valve inline-four barks out […] More

From the March 1964 Issue of Car and Driver. Most knowledgeable enthusiasts reacted negatively when Pontiac announced that their new Tempest sports model was to be called the GTO. They felt, as we did, that Pontiac was swiping a name to which it had no right. Like Le Mans, Grand Prix, Monza, Spyder and 2+2, […] More

From the April 1984 Issue of Car and Driver Where were you in 1964? Dan Gurney whiled away the year racing a Formula 1 Brabham Coventry-Climax, winning both the French GP at Rouen and the Mexican GP in Mexico City; he spent his spare time in Southern California laying the founda­tion for his own All […] More

From the June 2000 Issue of Car and Driver. The Ferrari Challenge is a racing program staged by the company for its paying customers. It gives them the chance to compete against their fellow plutocrats whilst simultaneously putting their porky wallets on the Atkins Diet. Limited to race editions of late-model cars, the Challenge series […] More

View Photos Dick KelleyCar and Driver From the July 1991 Issue of Car and Driver. The editorial belly is having trouble digesting the BMW 850i sports coupe. Maybe it’s the price. Any car costing $90,000 ought to do everything but make coffee—maybe even that too. When it comes from Germany and wears the blue-and-white BMW […] More

From the March 2002 Issue of Car and Driver. The Escalade EXT is Cadillac’s answer to the Avalanche, not that anyone at Chevrolet actually asked the question. But someone must have, because an EXT showed up in our parking lot, and 5900 pounds of black Cadillac is hard to miss. You could think of the […] More

From the November 1990 issue of Car and Driver. What we’re about to do here is tell you about the Best Sedan in the World Regardless of Price. What we’re not going to do is bore you with disclaimers that say choosing the winner took so much effort that it wasn’t any fun. After all, […] More