Automotive
Car and Driver
THE MAD SCRAMBLE
AN 814-HP V-12 THAT SCREAMS TO 9400 RPM IS JUST THE START OF THE INTENSE EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE LAMBORGHINI REVUELTO.
5 min |
March - April 2025
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2022 Rivian R1T
This EV pickup proves to be E-Z to live with.
7 min |
March - April 2025
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Spite Defender
Ineos Grenadier HIGHS: Dapper off-road style meets genuine off-road capability, wonderfully smooth powertrain, built like a brick outhouse. LOWS: Incessant warnings, sloppy and slow steering, noisy on the highway.
4 min |
March - April 2025
Car and Driver
The Revivalist
The Nissan Murano emerges fresh-faced and revitalized from a long-overdue redo.
2 min |
March - April 2025
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ELECTRICAL CONNECTION
The Toyota Camry, the Honda Accord, and the Hyundai Sonata all take different approaches to hybridization, but which one does it best?
7 min |
March - April 2025
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The Achilles Kneel
Mercedes-Benz W123 wagons doing the Carolina Squat can get their droopy self-leveling rear suspension back up to snuff courtesy of a Californian.
1 min |
March - April 2025
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Dollars to Donuts
Despite the high cost, automakers are still drawn to racing.
3 min |
March - April 2025
Car and Driver
G to the Power of E
Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ Technology HIGHS: Quicker than the old G550, improved handling, better braking. LOWS: Cubist shape torpedoes highway range, cramped inside, dorky name.
2 min |
March - April 2025
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The Best Odds
The cars I recall most fondly were neither the prettiest nor the quickest. Certainly not the most expensive. They were machines that emerged willfully peculiar and intractably idiosyncratic.
3 min |
March - April 2025
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Duke Boys Face Charges
The Dodge Charger Daytona takes the good ol' muscle car and gives it a new-age powertrain, whether we're ready or not.
3 min |
March - April 2025
Car and Driver
Lightning Lap 18
A lap time might be the best distillation of a vehicle's performance. No other single number more effectively sums up a car's acceleration, braking, and handling abilities. VIR's grueling 4.1-mile Grand Course is the best place we've found to acquire that number.
10+ min |
March - April 2025
Car and Driver
A Current Affair
Already used in computers and other electronics, the e-fuse is finding a home in automotive applications, kicking the classic blade-style fuse to the curb.
2 min |
March - April 2025
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The Volkswagen Taos puts some newfound power behind its swing.
LOTS OF SMALL CHANGES can make a big difference, and that's just Volkswagen's strategy with the little Taos's mid-cycle refresh. New lights and wheel designs, a nicer interior with a larger screen, and some hardware tweaks have made this feature-filled small SUV more compelling for 2025.
1 min |
March - April 2025
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Race for Time
One of the coolest trophies in racing is the Rolex watch awarded to winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona.
1 min |
March - April 2025
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The Best Odds
SOMETIMES-NOT OFTEN, BUT sometimes-car manufacturers create something semi-wondrous that is also borderline irrational and three-quarters inexplicable to their own marketing types.
3 min |
January - February 2025
Car and Driver
Mileage Booster
Kia Carnival Hybrid HIGHS: Big mpg bump, no CVT weirdness, solid ride and handling. LOWS: Shared HVAC and audio controls, second-row loungers can't be removed, changing brake-pedal feel.
2 min |
January - February 2025
Car and Driver
Medium Spicy
Kia K4 GT-Line Turbo HIGHS: Lengthy list of features, spacious interior, generous trunk. LOWS: Uncomfortably flat seats, rivals are quicker, only modest grip.
2 min |
January - February 2025
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Drivelines
HORACIO PAGANI IS A visionary designer and self-taught engineer.
3 min |
January - February 2025
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Suspensions of Disbelief
It's easy to say a vehicle rides well but much more difficult to explain the nuanced implications of that highly subjective statement.
4 min |
January - February 2025
Car and Driver
PUMPED-UP KICKS
NISSAN ISN'T SHY about experimenting with its subcompact of ferings. In the recent past, it briefly gave us the adorable Cube, seemingly designed by Hello Kitty, followed by the frog-eyed Juke that somehow spawned a six-figure R-badged super-SUV in other markets.
5 min |
January - February 2025
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THE ALFA ROMEO GIULIA QUADRIFOGLIO. THE BMW M3 COMPETITION. AND THE CADILLAC CT4-VBLACKWING HEAD SOUTH ONA ROAD TRIP TO FIND OUT WHICH ONE BEST DELIVERS ON THE SPORTS-SEDAN PROMISE.
One of us, gassing up the 2025 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing, says, \"No, we drove from Michigan.
8 min |
January - February 2025
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SINCE WE APPRECIATE GREAT TALENT IN ALL ITS FORMS, WE ALSO HONOR THE 10BEST TRUCKS, SUVS, AND VANS. INCLUDING ONE WINNER WITH LITERAL BUZZ.
THE DISCUSSION AROUND this year's 10Best Trucks competition had some editors wishing the award were called 12Best.
7 min |
January - February 2025
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OUR VERSION OF A 2024 AUTOMOTIVE AWARDS SHOW (SOMETIMES HUMOROUS, SOMETIMES NOT).
America's fastest senior citizen made the save of the year when his Funny Car's engine exploded at Virginia Motorsports Park.
5 min |
January - February 2025
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"A ROMANCE THAT BUILDS WITH SPECTACULAR PASSION. THE LONGER YOU DRIVE IT, THE BETTER IT GETS."
When the history of the sports sedan is written, the late-narrative plot twist that few would have seen coming is the emergence of CadillacCadillac!-as the keeper of the flame. And yet, that's exactly what's happened.
4 min |
January - February 2025
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OUR ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF AUTOMOTIVE SUPERSTARS FOR 2025.10BEST
What's the best car?\" Getting asked that question is an occupational hazard in this business.
3 min |
January - February 2025
Car and Driver
Afloat in a sea of autonomousdriving converts and questionable robotics, I found myself a doubter.
IT BEGAN, as most things in Los Angeles do, with a traffic jam. Cybertrucks approaching the Warner Bros. studio parking lot were clogging up the lanes a good four hours before Tesla's Robotaxi event was due to start.
3 min |
January - February 2025
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Quarter-MillionMile Baby
This well-loved and well-used 1984 Ferrari 308GTS is no garage queen.
1 min |
January - February 2025
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Wind-Tunnel Visionary
As an aerodynamicist at Porsche, Francesca Cogotti is literally shaping the German automaker's future.
2 min |
January - February 2025
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Scout Out
No longer a model under the International marque, Scout returns as its own brand with plans to sell a pair of South Carolina-built battery-powered vehicles before the decade's end.
2 min |
January - February 2025
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Fleeting Thoughts
Updates and hot takes on the vehicles fortunate enough to spend 40,000 miles with C/D's editors.
2 min |