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For Porsche, the Taycan Turbo GT’s 1092 horsepower was just the starting point in the quest for EV supremacy. The four-door sedan ditches its rear seat, swapping in a carbon-fiber storage bin (saving 49 pounds); it removes the driver’s-side charge-port door and associated wiring to save weight, even at the expense of an entirely new […]

A starting price barely over $34,000. A claimed curb weight under 3000 pounds. Power and acceleration figures that aren’t chasing modern sports cars. Enough battery capacity for several days of around-town driving. Healthy levels of standard equipment. While a parade of big-battery, multi-motor, mega-horsepower, high-dollar electric vehicles are pushing EVs in one direction, there’s a

The route from Southern California to the southern Oregon coast traverses some 800 miles of varied terrain that ranges from boring to breathtaking. You begin by tolerating a maddening stretch of Interstate 5 laden with truck traffic that wreaks havoc on traffic flow because the speed limit for civilians and semis differs by 15 mph.

From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver. The Germans have a word for everything. In Munich, zuzeln means sucking a sausage out of its casing. BMW has employed a bit of automotive zuzeln with the 2024 530i xDrive, removing a familiar filling—a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder hooked to a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission and

Honda’s TrailSport badge started as pure cowboy cosplay, adding visual flair but little else to the automaker’s two-row mid-size SUV. In our test of a 2022 Passport TrailSport, we felt it fell short of the mark and could stand to pack some true off-road credentials. Honda decided to remedy that for 2024 with some hardware

There’s no such thing as too many tacos. That’s true of both the tasty handheld food and the new fourth-­generation Toyota Tacoma, with its buffet of bed, cab, and powertrain choices. While most mid-size trucks are limiting their menu, the 2024 Tacoma’s is more diverse than ever. We’ve driven most of the new Tacoma family,

Introduction With its rear-wheel-drive-based underpinnings and turbocharged inline-six engine, the 2024 Mazda CX-90 is the Japanese automaker’s strongest argument yet that it’s a premium vehicle brand. But BMW- and Mercedes-like chassis and powertrain architectures alone are not the only arbitrators of what makes a high-end vehicle, and the exclusively all-wheel-drive CX-90’s $40,970 starting price puts

From the November 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Grabbing hold of a thin-rimmed, leather-wrapped steering wheel reads luxury in much the same way thick-rimmed wheels connote sportiness. Not many modern vehicles have thin-rimmed steering wheels, but the Buick Envista does, and it sends a subtle message that this inexpensive car’s mission is to provide

From the September 1991 issue of Car and Driver. The scene was right out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ten Car and Driver editors spritzing and lolling atop Brock Yates’s 38-foot-long charter boat, the Bluewater Challenger, which Yates—in true Hemingway style—calls “one big, tough fishing machine.” Yates was at the helm, somehow persuaded

From the November 2023 issue of Car and Driver. The burrito artist issued a succinct two-word review of the 2023 Porsche 911 Sport Classic as we sat nearby. “Nice spec,” he said, nodding toward the haunchy machine we’d backed into a front-and-center parking spot. He had no idea how right he was, even though the