Suprising Balance

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 ...

Tech and Driving Impression

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...

A New Classic?

"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...

Sporty Yet Reliable

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 ...

A Splendid Little Car

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...

2003 Chevrolet Silverado SS – Road Test

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...

Performance

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 ...