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Kevin Wilson first became interested in electric vehicles when he was a kid in 1960s Detroit. “We had a lot of family who were doing deliveries,” Wilson told C/D. “My dad drove a bakery delivery truck, and I had uncles who did mop and rug deliveries. And my grandfather would talk about driving an electric […]

From the November 2023 issue of Car and Driver. The auto industry continues to look for new ways to reduce carbon emissions. Though most manufacturers are cutting carbon by developing battery-electric vehicles, others continue to tinker with alternative fuels, such as hydrogen and carbon-free or carbon-neutral synthetics. The Chinese automaker GAC, in partnership with Toyota,

From the November 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Production manager Juli Burke sent me an interesting question. Her in-laws are looking at new SUVs and, unhappy with the hardness of BMW and Mercedes-Benz cushions, wanted to know which vehicle has the most comfortable seats. I get a lot of car-buying questions, and I usually

There are no 250 GTOs in Michael Mann’s new Ferrari movie. No Daytonas or Testarossas either. That’s not just because Ferrari—which stars Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penélope Cruz as his embattled wife, Laura—takes place almost exclusively in 1957, years before those cars were birthed. Mann strives to get inside the mind and soul

“It’s just a straight line, how hard can it be?” Every drag racer on earth has heard that, from someone—usually a road racer—dismissing quarter-mile competition as easy to do and skill-less. The truth is, for all its loud engines and smoky starts, drag racing is a subtle motorsport. It’s easy to do it if all

One of the significant changes in the luxury-car market over the past 15 years is the increasing overlap and morphing of archrivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz, as they pursue each other’s well-heeled American market share. Where once the division between luxury (Benz) and sporting steed (BMW) was clear, Benzes have become more sporting and engaging, and