Author Barry L.

Referring to the 1961 Ferrari 250GT California he "borrowed" from his best friend's father, the somehow sagacious and always rash Ferris Bueller eloquently proclaimed in the 1986 flick, "It...

The Pontiac Vibe and the forthcoming Toyota Matrix share Toyota's next-generation Corolla chassis, a world citizen that will be used in replacing North America's aging Corolla sedan and th...

From the June 1969 Issue of Car and Driver TESTED The test questions have all been asked and it's time for the Ford Motor Company to hand in its paper. Passing or failing will be deter...

By day, he fine-tunes future suspension systems as GM’s vehicle-dynamics authority. At night, he constructs the sweetest ’69 Camaros big money can buy. Mark Stielow, Pro Touring’s 46-year...

When BMW owned Rover of Britain, Wolfgang Reitzle was No. 2 in the German parent company. His priority for the British subsidiary was the development of an all-new Range Rover, a vehicle t...

Chilly test conditions kept the Goodyears from delivering their last increments of performance. On our 300-foot skidpad, the Red Devil cornered at a still impressive 0.98 g with minimal b...

Retro cars are popular, but we have yet to find a "new" vehicle that satisfies our yearning for the "old." Can you remember your first vehicle? Didn't you love it because it was yours? If ...

Also (unhappily) it's this same lightness that contributes to the Corolla's relatively poor ride. On anything but a smooth road it pitches and bounces with vigor, fortu­nately at a frequen...

Drum brakes are used all around on the Corolla; two leading shoes in front and leading and trailing shoes in the rear. Pedal pressure is reasonable and no sig­nificant fade was noticeable ...