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    Tested: 2020 Audi S8 Issues an Executive Order for Speed

    Jessica Lynn WalkerCar and Driver You can’t easily tell the status of the folks sitting in the 2020 Audi S8. It’s not like the old days where the boss automatically sat in the back of a big executive sedan. Perhaps if the S8 were fitted with Audi’s optional $7750 Executive Rear Seat package, then the […] More

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    Tested: 2020 Porsche 718 Spyder is Music to Our Ears

    Andrew TrahanCar and Driver Some cars are for winning races. Some are for winning attention. The Porsche 718 Spyder is for winning souls. It’s not the quickest car in the 718 Boxster/Cayman family. Or the most structurally stiff. But what it lacks on the spec sheet, it returns in deep and meaningful allure. We spent […] More

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    Tested: Porsche's Panamera GTS Is All About the V-8

    The Pontiac Aztek looks somewhat decent these days. Hummer is coming back to make electric SUVs. Tesla just built its millionth car. To that pile of things we thought we’d never say, we can now add: Porsche builds two sedans. HIGHS: Incredible performance doesn’t hamper its luxurious side, attractive and rich interior, you-must-be-this-tall-to-ride spirit of […] More

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    Tested: 2020 Lincoln Aviator Reserve Wants Us To Grow Up

    Michael SimariCar and Driver When Ford Motor Company announced the CD6 platform that would underpin the 2020 Lincoln Aviator and Ford Explorer would have a longitudinal engine arrangement and available rear-wheel drive, we started daydreaming about drifting a twin-turbo V-6 SUV. Not everything that seems possible in your head actually plays out, though. So, when […] More

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    Porsche's 959 Accurately Predicted the Future

    The guy in the Subaru Crosstrek came down the hill, stopped uncomfortably close to my driver’s-side door, and rolled down his window. “Can I help you?” he asked. He seemed irritated that I had pulled over in front of his vineyard in, what, some old 911 or something? I wanted to tell him that by […] More