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From the July 1991 issue of Car and Driver. The late Andy Warhol predicted that everyone in the future would be famous for fifteen minutes, but time is running out and you still haven’t made the cover of People or even been a finalist on “America’s Most Stultifying Home Videos.” Say, would you pay 44 […]

Performance electric vehicles provide big horsepower numbers, and their torque-rich motors, capable of instantaneous delivery, make for blistering acceleration. But unlike their high-strung internal-combustion counterparts, electrics are lacking in two critical areas: the sound of an engine’s micro-explosions and the mechanical feedback that imparts a sense of speed. Hyundai’s N performance-tuning arm seeks to remedy

If you want to know just how adept high-performance SUVs have become at bending the laws of physics, check out the BMW X3 M Competition’s test numbers. It would be easy to assume that they were produced by anything but a tall shoebox of a car. A high-end sports car, maybe? A thundering muscle car?

The Mercedes-Benz GLC SUV and the swoopier GLC Coupe are more fraternal than identical twins. But after a quick spin in a revised 2024 GLC Coupe, one thing this slicked-back sport utility does share with the flattop is the fact that it’s a comfortable, safe choice. Related Stories While the vehicles are very similar on

From the June 1991 issue of Car and Driver. The new Lexus SC400 coupe is as rounded and slippery and slick as a caplet of Extra-Strength Tylenol. The big dif­ference is, this baby will cause headaches. Imagine that your house payments and your kids’ new shoes depend in some way on sales of Mercedes-Benz or

We’re on record as being huge fans of the Honda Civic Type R. The Type R helped put the Civic onto our 10Best list. It also topped the Toyota GR Corolla and the Volkswagen Golf R in our GRRR hot-hatch comparo, and by no small margin. And who among us could forget its standout Lightning

From the July 1991 issue of Car and Driver. Is it fair to say that the average Ameri­can doesn’t know much about Isuzu? If so, too bad for the average Ameri­can, because the new-for-1991 Isuzu Ro­deo shows that there’s a lot more to this Japanese company than just a funny, ly­ing spokesman named Joe. In

About six months after its green paint was shimmering on display at last year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas, the Jeep Quadratec JTe concept was covered in dirt, horsing around at Holly Oaks ORV Park in Michigan. About 60 miles north of Car and Driver headquarters in Ann Arbor, the off-road playground, with its bounty

From the November 1998 issue of Car and Driver. First impressions can be misleading, and not just with people. Our early impressions of cars are subject to change after 40,000 miles behind the wheel. For example, it was love at first sight with a certain European convertible some years ago (hey, we don’t kiss and

It’s a sign of the times that nearly every luxury brand offers an EV of some sort, and it’s no coincidence that many of these new entries are taking the shape of compact crossovers—one of the most popular segments in all of autodom. Audi’s Q4 e-tron is the third EV from the German automaker, while