Reviews

From the June 1985 issue of Car and Driver. In case you haven’t checked in with Subaru lately, brace yourself. Respectable, reliable Subaru, the company that finished second in the J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Index right behind Mercedes­-Benz, the company that led the rush to four-wheel-drive passenger cars, the company that has built its reputation […]

There was a brief period of time when many people thought the EV revolution meant we’d be stuck with a future full of slow, uninspiring cars. If anything, the current march toward electrification has proven the opposite: Through the process of shoving a bunch of electrons through a wire like a Tokyo subway stuffer, humanity

From the September 1990 issue of Car and Driver. We’ve been giddy from speed in Cor­vette ZR-1s and dizzy from the price of Cadillac Allantés, but we’ve never driven a General Motors product that affected us like this before. GM’s new SD-60 is a brutal-looking three-seater equipped with everything an enthusiast could hope for: all-wheel

From the September 1990 issue of Car and Driver. We could begin this discussion of the new BMW 318is by saying that, finally, here’s a BMW that Biff and Buffy can afford, even if they’re strung out by stress, staggering vet bills, and interest pay­ments on the condo. And we could say that here’s a

From the August 1986 issue of Car and Driver. Eleven years have passed since Jaguar’s last E-type two-seater ragtops were im­ported into this country. England’s famous maker of luxurious sports cars and sump­tuous sedans has since made do with steel roofs, and the grand-touring world has been the poorer. One way or another, ragtop Jags

Rain pelted my face and the wind whipped through my jacket as I crouched on the frozen soil next to the Winnebago eRV2. The electric camper-van prototype was my home for the night at the Portage Lake State Campground in Michigan’s Waterloo Recreation Area, and the vehicle had just informed me that the 15.0-kWh “house”

MoonBikes’ electric snowped looks like a toy. It’s a refrain the French startup’s founder and CEO Nicolas Muron has heard countless times, especially from snowmobilers. Yet once those people experience the small machine’s instant acceleration and innate agility, Muron claims their skepticism typically turns into enthusiasm. Admittedly, we were also skeptical when MoonBikes invited us

Hybrids are big at Lexus, making up more than 25 percent of the luxury brand’s sales. Nearly every model in the lineup now offers a gas-electric variant, and this kind of powertrain makes sense for the typical Lexus buyer who prioritizes quietness and efficiency above the sporty sounds and performance of Lexus’s V-6 and V-8

Volkswagen’s ID.4 compact SUV is already in its third model year, and the ID.Buzz retro minivan comes next. It’s only logical that the next ID will be a sedan, and it will be dubbed ID.7. The ID.7 is still more than a year off, but we just drove it, in disguised form, in Spain. The

Should EVs make a statement? Or should they blend in with the gas-powered masses? That’s the major question facing designers in the tectonic shift to electric propulsion. After watching Tesla sprint ahead as the tech-forward luxury offering, Mercedes-Benz burst out of the gate with its EQS sedan, an S-class-level electric vehicle on a dedicated platform