The WRX's chassis felt tight, responsive, and solid. Subaru says that a host of structural improvements netted a whopping 148 percent improvement in torsional body rigidity over the last Impreza, which now ...
Our test car had comfortable leather seats that seemed an appropriate match for the lavish interior design that combines realistic faux-wood panels with silver-colored trim and high-quality moldings. Our ve...
We’re visiting an odd spot in the universe where level-headed civility doesn’t pertain. This is a dream destination where the unlikely is the norm and the preposterous is the rule. Here, the ride of choice ...
"He took the noise out of the design," says his colleague, designer Mark Conforzi. The team led by Mays, chief designer Doug Gaffka, and Conforzi changed surfaces, bumpers, grille textures, hood scoops, fro...
The interior drew criticism for the chronograph-style instrument cluster, which was hard to see and decipher, and for the chromed shifter, which on sunny days got way too hot to touch and ...
If it wasn't already German, I'd be tempted to say it could be as American as Mom's apple pie or Rapp Brown's carbine. Not American in the same sense as the contemporary domestic car, with...
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...
The original was the wildest. I saw it for the first time at Shelby's old plant on West Imperial Highway—the converted North American Aviation factory that huddled alongside the main ...
Corvette coupes (they all have a removable roof section) and convertibles (see sidebar "C6 Convertible") come in three forms: base, F55 (add about $1700) with adjustable magnetorheological ...
From the December 1957 Issue of Car and Driver
TESTED
To mark the fourth birthday of the Corvette, its proud parents, the Chevrolet Motor Division, have announced the 1958 model which ha...