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...

Never Go Unnoticed at Night

Several visible changes have been made in the car for ‘68 so that they will comply with the federal government's safety and exhaust emission standards. The windshield wiper arms are now f...

Parking is Equal to Six Push-ups

The Mustang's new-found handling ability demanded a greater revision of the engineering department's philosophy than it did of suspension parts. Kicking the understeering habit is no easi...

2004 Rolls-Royce Phantom – First Drive Review

If Sir Henry Royce and the Hon. Charles Rolls had foreseen a day when stewardship of the world's most prestigious nameplate would pass to a company headquartered in Munich, they might have...

Interior and Transmission

The hard top is also easy to install, having two clamps at the front and three bolts and two locating dowels at the rear. It is well finished and padded, and provides unobstructed vision. L...

The Basic Car is Excellent

Trunk space is limited largely by the shape: wide and flat. A couple of suitcases will fit in but must be quite thin. The push-button door latch has a handle that will only accommodate fi...

The Greatest C-Class?

Under the revised sheetmetal in front is a new strut suspension using two separate lower links instead of a control arm, which is said to provide better energy absorption in a crash. The r...

Service and Performance

At 15,763 miles, we noticed a bulge in the sidewall of the left front tire (it turned out to be the result of a nail). The right rear tire had developed a slow leak. We had to replace both ...