2017 BMW M2 – Feature
BMW has so perverted the sanctity of the letter M in its model names and option packages that a brief nomenclature lesson may be appropriate here.
Let’s start at the bottom. An ...
A Tale of Two Porsches – Feature
Click above image for Statistics on the 2002 Porsche 911 GT2 and 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS
Back before we knew how to drive, we used to invi...
2013 10Best: Concept Cars – Feature
Let the masses have their practical Cruzes and family-friendly Traverses, but please, Chevy, let us have this impractical, family-averse rear-drive coupe. The Code 130R gives off a sort of uprig...
C/D‘s Lightning Lap 2015 LL1 Class: Miata, Mustang, JCW, and GTI – Feature
2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club - 3:20.8
Base Price: $32,820
As-Tested Price: $33,320
155 hp | 2309 lb | 14.9 lb/hp
Think of Mazda’s affable roadster as Snuggle, the giggling fa...
Chevrolet Corvette Stingray at Lightning Lap 2014 – Feature
With great steering and handling, the latest Corvette is a highly engaging road car. But aside from a few laps at GM’s Milford Road Course and the very short Streets of Willow Springs circuit in California,...
Charting U.S.-Market Diesel Take Rates, Prices, MPG, and More – Feature
Diesels are infiltrating American roads, and $4 gasoline has made them quite viable for our market. Read about diesel‘s growing popularity in the U.S. at Car and Driver....
2012 Volkswagen Golf / GTI
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 3- or 5-door hatchbackBASE PRICE: $18,765$25,465ENGINES: turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 16-valve 2.0-liter diesel inline-4, 140 hp, 236 lb-ft; DO...
1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray 427 vs. 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible – Feature
From the July 2015 issue
A 1967 Corvette Sting Ray is our time machine for visiting the era when America and Car and Driver came of age. The 1960s marked the arrival of the Beach Boys, th...
The Fastest Detroit Sporty-Car
Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1967.
The Ford Mustang started the whole Detroit sporty-car boom three years ago, and the car has been a gold mine for Ford Divisi...
Surprising Little Sedan
Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1968.
The BMW bucks the trend toward repeat victors in the readers’ poll. We tested the 1600 in February and said then that it was...