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Warning: Spoilers ahead for the Gran Turismo movie. We expect a certain loose application of facts in moviemaking. Even when films are based on true stories, directors can’t seem to stop themselves from adding in just a few more explosions, a love interest, or a twist and turn of the real-life timeline. The creators of

From the September 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Whether it’s for a warning chime to grab the driver’s attention or piped-in audio designed to give electric vehicles an acceleration note akin to that of an engine, automakers are working overtime to design brand-specific aural environments. Creating a new and distinct sound is easy, but

From the September 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Echoing the design of the long-running 99 that preceded it, the updated and modernized Saab 900 was the car that brought the fringe Swedish brand into its closest proximity to the mainstream, which honestly wasn’t that close. When we drove a Saab in 1977, we said,

Someday we will get a quiet sit-down with Gordon Murray, Dario Franchitti, and the T.50 hypercar, but Saturday at WeatherTech Laguna Seca during Car Week was not it. Murray’s pit was surrounded by fans of both the cars, and their creator. The T.50 sat front and center, flanked by display engines and the elegant Brabham

I’m sure everyone with a non-Tesla EV is eagerly awaiting the day they can bum-rush the nearest Supercharger station and plug into Tesla’s charging network. In my own experience, long-distance EV travel in a Tesla is easy and reliable, while road trips in anything else are a gamble. The last time I drove a Ford

From the September 2023 issue of Car and Driver. So thoroughly has the car colonized our consciousness that even New York City’s Museum of Modern Art mounted a 2021–22 show, Automania, devoted to cars in art. Here we curate our own show with a handful of our favorite contemporary car creatives to discover what drives