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.

At the risk of pulling the curtain too far back, here’s a peek behind it.

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

Car and Driver

Scout Out • No longer a model under the International marque, Scout returns as its own brand with plans to sell a pair of South Carolina–built battery-powered vehicles before the decade’s end.

Wind-Tunnel Visionary • As an aerodynamicist at Porsche, Francesca Cogotti is literally shaping the German automaker’s future.

Six Education • Digging into Porsche’s patent for a six-stroke engine.

Quarter-Million-Mile Baby • This well-loved and well-used 1984 Ferrari 308GTS is no garage queen.

EZRA DYER • Drives in two vintage Porsche 911 Turbos stoke my desire to own a 911. But what’s the best market strategy?

ELANA SCHERR • Afloat in a sea of autonomous-driving converts and questionable robotics, I found myself a doubter.

10 BEST • OUR ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF AUTOMOTIVE SUPERSTARS FOR 2025.

OUR VERSION OF A 2024 AUTOMOTIVE AWARDS SHOW (SOMETIMES HUMOROUS, SOMETIMES NOT).

SINCE WE APPRECIATE GREAT TALENT IN ALL ITS FORMS, WE ALSO HONOR THE 10BEST TRUCKS, SUVS, AND VANS, INCLUDING ONE WINNER WITH LITERAL BUZZ.

THE ALFA ROMEO GIULIA QUADRIFOGLIO, THE BMW M3 COMPETITION, AND THE CADILLAC CT4-V BLACKWING HEAD SOUTH ON A ROAD TRIP TO FIND OUT WHICH ONE BEST DELIVERS ON THE SPORTS-SEDAN PROMISE.

PUMPED-UP KICKS • LONG A VALUE PLAYER AMONG ENTRY-LEVEL SUVS, THE NISSAN KICKS LEANS HEAVILY INTO SUBSTANCE WITH A COMPREHENSIVE 2025 REDESIGN.

SOUND OFF • Silence is golden.

COUNTERPOINTS

Suspensions of Disbelief • An in-depth look into how modern suspensions manage our broken roads.

The Vehicles

The Test Roads

The Data

Technology Highlights

Art in the Machine • Part sculpture, part supercar, the Pagani Utopia is also more than the sum of its parts.

Medium Spicy • Kia K4 GT-Line Turbo HIGHS: Lengthy list of features, spacious interior, generous trunk. LOWS: Uncomfortably flat seats, rivals are quicker, only modest grip.

Yin-Yang Blat Rat • An updated Audi RS3 maintains mechanical symbiosis.

Mileage Booster • Kia Carnival Hybrid HIGHS: Big mpg bump, no CVT weirdness, solid ride and handling. LOWS: Shared HVAC and audio controls, second-row loungers can’t be removed, changing brake-pedal feel.

Lovable Scamp • Lotus Emira First Edition HIGHS: Looks a treat, gurgles like a happy baby, sips gas. LOWS: Unpolished shifts, barely lighter than the V-6, no manual.

Drivelines: Blips • HIGHLIGHTING THE DETAILS THAT MATTER

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.