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From the June 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Where I live, the police drive some heavy-duty machinery. There’s the odd Ford Taurus hanging in there, but mainly it’s Chevy Tahoes, Dodge Durangos, and Ford Explorers, with a healthy smattering of V-8 Dodge Chargers. One day, while I was daydreaming about municipal budgets (as I […]

From the June 2023 issue of Car and Driver. There’s a 7.3-liter V-8 hidden under the doghouse, and at full whack, its snare-drum-tumbling-in-a-cement-mixer soundtrack calls up memories of school buses. I’m climbing a mild grade through Arizona, not in a Blue Bird or a Thomas, but in a Ford E-350 chassis-cab dually, and the engine

From the June 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Launched on the heels of the CTS sedan in 2003, the 2004 Cadillac CTS-V was General Motors’ blunt-force response to the BMW M5s and Audi S4s of the world. Our first impressions were largely positive: A pre-production model exhibited both power and poise, remaining a Cadillac

Henry Grabar is a journalist at Slate who writes about cities, focusing on housing, transportation, and the environment. As he pursued various stories over the years, he began to see a common, and counterintuitive, thread. “I was surprised to find that parking was a central part of a lot of different stories,” Grabar tells Car

Last time we saw Winslow Bent he had started a company called Legacy Classic Trucks in Driggs, Idaho, just west of his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. At that time, he was showing Autoweek his newly refurbished 1947 Dodge Power Wagon, a truck so completely and perfectly restored that we didn’t even wince when we

Whether you’ve never watched a Formula 1 race, or you can recite every F1 world champion dating back to Giuseppe Farina, Stuart Codling’s new book Formula 1 Drive to Survive—The Unofficial Companion is a fascinating quick course on the world’s most popular motorsport. F1 has an unfortunate history of gatekeeping and pushing new fans away

In the late 1980s, fresh out of the industrial-design program at Pratt Institute, Michael Santoro took a job at Chrysler. He was one of a cohort of young designers, and since they had access to the corporate fleet, sometimes they’d borrow a car and drive from Detroit to New York City. One weekend, a colleague

From the May 2023 issue of Car and Driver. After three full years of hemming and hawing, I did it: I bought a Jeep Gladiator. I am now legally required to wave in the general direction of any vehicle with round headlights and a seven-slot grille. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ll