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From the July/August 2023 issue of Car and Driver. It was late in the day when the Miura caught fire. Someone was sitting in it with the engine off and the key in the on position, assuming the car would be happy to keep the V-12’s fans running. It also kept the fuel pump running, […]

This was not your usual interview. There were no PR handlers keeping us on topic, no other reporters hovering with cell phones recording. Dario Franchitti was relaxed, ordering appetizers and bullying me into eating them while we bounced around conversationally like an Indy car on a bad street circuit. It was delightful, but suddenly it

From the July/August 2023 issue of Car and Driver. At age 14, Thatcher Keast opened an automotive-detailing business in central Kansas. His top client was a local collector who’d bought and sold cars through RM Auctions. Keast accompanied the collector to sales and found himself mesmerized by the auctioneer. After college, Keast joined RM as

Marta Longin, the head of communications at Rimac Automobili, gestures toward an empty expanse of poured concrete, roofed only by exposed ducting. “That area,” she says, “will be for hypercar production.” She adjusts her hardhat, a bright blue plastic cosplay construction prop that matches the one I’m wearing. I squint into the middle distance of

From the July/August 2023 issue of Car and Driver. John W. Hetrick, an engineer from Pennsylvania, patented the airbag back in 1953. While suppliers and automakers experimented with airbags in the ’60s and ’70s, they didn’t become widely available until the ’80s and weren’t federally mandated until 1998. These days, one might find 10 or

The unexpected start of Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One is an electric-powered Fiat 500. The seventh film in the Mission: Impossible franchise opens on July 12. Here’s a teaser showing the behind-the-scenes filming of the car chases. The unusual hero car is a vintage Fiat 500, built specially with electric power to be faster and

It’s one of the many worries you hear about electric vehicles: What happens to the battery packs of EVs when they’re used up? We’re not supposed to toss certain kinds of small batteries in the trash, so what happens to those that weigh hundreds of pounds? Do they just end up in landfills? Related Stories

From the June 2023 issue of Car and Driver. I first learned about Michèle Mouton when I was in my early 20s, just about the same age she was when she first got in a race car in 1973, the inaugural year of the World Rally Championship. The race was the famously difficult Monte Carlo