Radical and Futuristic

The Gullwing and this magazine have a special relationship besides sharing an official birth year of 1955. While stationed in Germany as an Army Signal Corps radio repairman in 1958, our m...

Cars That Wear The Silver Star

Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1967. “Even though we’ve come to expect each new model from Daimler-Benz to be the best thing of its kind, we still find ourselves...

1983 10Best Cars – 10Best Cars

Car and Driver isn’t the first magazine to bring you the ten best of something or other, nor will we be the last. We hope that we’re breaking important new automotive ground, however, by b...

A Lighter Engine

There are two models initially?Ruedisueli: Yes, the base car and the GTS. The GTS has different wheels and two suspension settings—street and race. And it has a Harman/Kardon stereo, an ...

There‘s No Question That This is a Stingray

How did you manage to keep the 50/50 weight balance? Bennion: The new engine is a little longer, with the variable-valve-timing hardware at the front, which is why the wheelbase is an i...

Economical As An Artesian Well

Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1967. We don’t see how the VW could lose this category. Volkswagen sells almost twice as many Beetles a year as all the other impo...

Overwhelming the Opposition

Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1968. Just like last year, Porsche's entire consumer model line won. Not only did Porsche's 912 (four cylinders, 102 horsepower) w...