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...
Making Really Good Better
Is this nuts, or what? Porsche adds a Boxster model that is more fun to drive than its top-of-the-line 911 Carrera....
Chevrolet Corvette L48 Turbo Prototype (C3) – Archived Feature
From the September 1979 Issue of Car and Driver
Back in the old days, the Corvette sliced a broad swath of respect across the land as America's leading edge of engineering. I...
Financial Future?
Zounds! A British sports-car maker is bought up by a 24-year-old Muscovite....
1908 Buick Model 10 and 1909 Ford Model T – Feature
In the autumn of 1908, the flag of the United States of America had 46 stars, the population was less than 89 million, Teddy Roosevelt was about to vacate the White House and William Howar...
Hendrick Handicaps His Drivers—and Remembers One Who Got Away
In 1984, Rick Hendrick, a 34-year-old car dealer from Charlotte, thought about NASCAR. That year, it wasn’t possible to be a car dealer in Charlotte and not think about NASCAR. Hendrick ha...
VW Lives
Originally published in Car and Driver magazine in May 1968.
VW Lives! First in the hearts of dealers, consumers and countrymen, VW has done it again in the Readers’ Poll. Done it for t...
Brakes and Powertrains
Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated in March 1961.
PROBLEMATIC BRAKING
No Sting Ray problem has been more persistent than the brakes. As you'll recall, the SS was equippe...