Car Review

Most complaints surfaced when not hitting the highway. The brake has to be applied to fire the engine. Why? It's in park. From there, the six-speed automatic's second-gear starts kill off-t...

The Forester is a truck. Never mind the carlike unibody or seat height, an arbitrary decision had to be made, and the Forester is our line in the sand: Anything this tall is a truck, anythi...

We tested the Cobra during the same Los Angeles heat wave that contributed to the tragic race riots and found the big car to be amazingly tractable. It refused to heat up, despite several h...

According to Yoshihito Nagamoto, the program manager of Mazda's Tribute, this new compact sport-utility offering from Mazda was designed to be "the sports sedan of SUVs." To that end, Mazd...

Handling was dominated by the Charger's inherent understeer characteristics, a function of both the massive Hemi engine in the front of the car and the large front anti-sway bar. The unde...

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...

The fiberglass hood has five—count 'em, five—NASA-type hood scoops, all functional. Four of them merely open into the engine compartment, while the fifth provides a ram-air effect for the ...

"Maybe for street engine I make mistake — aluminum heads are expensive and that weight doesn't matter on the street." But he's not going to compromise the performance just to take money ou...

As any astronomer will tell you, amazing things can happen when the stars line up just right. And in the early 1950s at General Motors, big stars were lining up behind a brand-new model de...