Car and Driver

This magazine is for automobile enthusiasts interested in domestic and imported autos. Each issue contains road tests and features on performance, sports, international coverage of road race, stock and championship car events, technical reports, personalities and products. Road tests are conducted with electronic equipment by engineers and journalists and the results are an important part of the magazine's review section. Get Car and Driver digital magazine subscription today.

Every year, we faithful take a pilgrimage to rural Virginia.

BACKFIRES • Think of it as the peer-review section of the magazine, hosted by your pal Ed.

Car and Driver

The GReat Gazoo • Toyota breaks off GR into its own brand with the twin-turbo V-8 hybrid GT supercar.

In Your Atmos Sphere • Dolby’s Atmos redefines the audio experience both inside and outside the car.

Get in Line • Gyraline taps into the power of the iPhone to create a DIY alignment tool.

Parallel Play • A parallel-parking competition in Pittsburgh tests our skills and speed.

EZRA DYER • When a friend buys a Chevy Express, I learn how this automotive vampire has survived 30 years without a redesign.

ELANA SCHERR • A much-requested update on my brilliant plan to become a Bentley owner at a reduced cost.

THIS IS OUR HOUSE • For 20 years, we’ve gone south, closed the gate behind us, and lapped the newest performance cars to see how they handle the hardest test North America offers.

UNREALITY BITES • THE 2026 HONDA PRELUDE HYBRID SIMULATES STIMULATION.

COUNTERPOINTS

SPEEDING BULLITTS • THE TWO-DOOR DODGE CHARGER SCAT PACK AND FORD MUSTANG GT DUKE IT OUT ALONG THE ROUTE OF THE BULLITT CAR CHASE IN SAN FRANCISCO. CAN THE TWIN-TURBO, ALL-WHEEL-DRIVE CHARGER WRITE A NEW ENDING TO A FAMILIAR SCRIPT, OR IS THE V-8 MUSTANG STILL THE PREEMINENT PONY CAR?

JIM • Five years into driving Ford, CEO Jim Farley has pulled a U-turn on EVs and floored it with off-roaders. Now he’s navigating competition from China.

Drivelines • A DIGEST OF TESTS, UNFETTERED OPINIONS, AND SOME INTERESTING MINUTIAE

Camera Obscura

Higher Palisade

True to Form • The Ferrari Amalfi, the luxury brand’s entry-level offering, chooses manners over sportiness but still packs a 631-hp punch.

The Effcient Traveler • EVs and sedans may represent a tiny sliver of the market, but the Mercedes-Benz CLA EVs prove that good things can still come in smaller packages.

Passing Judgments

The Best Odds • The cars I recall most fondly were neither the prettiest nor the quickest. Certainly not the most expensive. They were machines that emerged willfully peculiar and intractably idiosyncratic.

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