Reviews

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

Before you crack open the throttle of the 2020 Ferrari F8 Tributo, you’d better be ready to steer it and shift up a gear. And we mean ready. Ferrari makes you work for your dinner in its latest mid-engine machine. Its 710-hp twin-turbo 3.9-liter V-8 revs with manic speed, dialing up rpm like a pneumatic […] More

From the September 1991 issue of Car and Driver. We’ll try to keep this discreet—your mother might be reading—but, just between us guys, we all know that half the fun of a fast car is standing on the pedal, pivoting those throt­tles wide open, and seeing the goat in the next lane back out of […] More