Car Feature

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...

A demographic shift looms: Some 76 million baby boomers will soon reach retirement age, crushing the health-care system and the social safety net with their massive numbers. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

We might as well get this out of the way right off the top: While in Le Mans, France, a small but monumentally drunk Frenchman kissed my beard. There, I said it. Well, it started as a...

TESTED A century from now, let no man or robot or digital personal companion embedded in the cerebellum at birth say that Car and Driver didn’t look at this thing from every p...

Europe’s exotic-car tuners and smaller automakers use the high-profile Geneva auto show to show off their wares, many of which are as subtle as a branding iron to the face. The...