Car Review

"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...

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 ...

The Pontiac Vibe steers GM into a new territory of small sport wagons, an area it has largely and perhaps understandably ignored since the Chevy Vega. Actually, the term wagon is so taboo around GM these...

We're getting used to Chrysler saving its own skin to the uproarious clash of cymbals. The company stretched a shapely capsule over a huge cabin for the 1993 Chrysler Concorde and Dodge Intrepid, and jaws w...

Life in this odd box brings surprising utility and enjoyment, with dabs of unexpected wear and repair....

Originally published in Sports Car Illustrated in December 1957. Whether on fast bends or slow, when you reach the limits of adhesion, the back starts to come around in a calm, unhurrie...

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...