2003 Chevrolet Silverado SS – Road Test
Put "Ss" side by side, and most people automotive will call up images of 1960s Chevy muscle cars-Impalas, Chevelles, and Camaros, big cars with big engines that delivered big power. But for...
1968 Dodge Charger Hemi Archived Instrumented Test – Review
From the November 1967 Issue of Car and Driver
Last year, we applauded Plymouth for building what we thought was the best looking Detroit car of 1967, the Barracuda. A remarkable feat,...
How Does It Work?
The car shown here was built by Chuck Miller of Detroit. Miller's usual work tends more toward the showcar circuit and its attendant spinoff into plastic model kits (for example his Zinge...
Everything is Perfect
If the car receiving surgery is a roadster, the sportwagon top comes as one piece which covers the cockpit and bolts into the normal windshield hardware. If you start with a coupe however...
A Look at GM‘s New Lineup of In-Line Engines
Despite the fact that V-8s account for 35 percent of Jeep Grand Cherokee sales and 16 percent of five-door Ford Explorers, GM continues to resist equipping its mid-size-SUV lineup with the...
2002 Mercedes-Benz G500 Road Test – Review
TESTED
In the Austrian factory where workers in blue jumpsuits assemble the Mercedes-Benz G500, there is a sign that reads, "Geländewagen: Robust und Exklusiv."
That sign describes ...
Trick Roof
Of course the champion of Corvette's trick stuff parade has to be the take-apart roof. We've put off talking about it almost to the end because we can't decide whether we like it or not. I...
2002 Lincoln Town Car – Instrumented Test
Of all the synopses we might employ to quantify the 2003 Lincoln Town Car, we confess that "addictive driving experience" never occurred to us. More composed, yes. More refined, yes. Bette...
Interior
Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1968.
Our test car came through with power steering which is not a bad option to have if you ever want to parallel park your fat-t...
Drivetrain and Ride Quality
The Owner's Manual warns that normal operating temperature is 210°F and that's exactly where the temperature gauge stabilized on our test car. Apparently the combination of reduced grille ...