Reviews

From the March 1999 issue of Car and Driver. What do a cherry-red SLK230 and a base C-class sedan have in common?” asked an Acura salesman in Ohio. “One’s a roadster, the other’s a toaster.” This caused him to bend double in a fit of laughter. Ha, ha. Get it? Neither did we, but we […]

Don’t call this a refresh. Polestar claims it doesn’t do the whole traditional mid-cycle update thing, and given the constant tweaks the Polestar 2 electric hatchback has received since launching, that tracks. Every model year has seen a new variant or adjusted power and range. For 2024, the Polestar 2 gets its most comprehensive upgrade

From the April 1997 issue of Car and Driver. If you’re not a Tibetan Bud­dhist or a Chinese Taoist, this may sound foreign: Mi­tsubishi’s latest sport-utility vehicle adheres to feng shui (pronounced fung shway). Literally, that means “wind and water,” but its popular meaning has to do with the “Chinese art of placement,” the act

From the September 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Was any car more ahead of its time than the Lamborghini LM002? In its day, the LM002 was a freak, an epic miscalculation by a brand that really couldn’t afford a dud. Now it looks like clairvoyance: the original exotic luxury SUV, two or three decades

From the March 1999 issue of Car and Driver. Our last official visit with a Pontiac Bonneville wasn’t memorable. It was grim, even. It was part of the mas­sive 10-car “Salt-of-the-Earth Sedans” comparison test in June 1998. The Bonneville took on such flashy newcomers as the Oldsmobile Intrigue, the Dodge Intrepid, the Honda Accord, the

From the July 1994 issue of Car and Driver. If we can believe our handsomely paid demographics consultants, then most of you reading this were children sometime between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s. And if our probability and statistics calculations are correct, then a rather large number of you spent some of your formative

From the October 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Sitting still, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS looks absolutely feral. Unless your name is Shaq, that cliché line about the rear wing being a picnic table doesn’t track, because it’s too high off the ground. Lest you dismiss this quarter-million-dollar car as just another 911 in

From the October 2023 issue of Car and Driver. Four dials and five buttons on the Porsche 911 GT3 RS’s steering wheel control drive modes, PASM damper compression and rebound, stability and traction controls, differential lock, and the drag-reduction system (DRS). Old hat for the video-game generation, right? Wrong. There are 6561 possible combinations for

Volvo got a whole lot right when it debuted the latest generation of the Polestar-massaged V60 station wagon. However, the plug-in hybrid proved a little light on EV range, and its performance couldn’t match that of its gas-only predecessor. Now, with a few extra tweaks under the skin, the revitalized V60 T8 eAWD Polestar Engineered

From the February 1997 issue of Car and Driver. I have a friend, a Manhattan lawyer, who grunts his hunter-green Range Rover into four-wheel low-low to traverse a brief stretch of potholed dirt road on the approach to our upstate New York driveway. It’s 50 yards of “off-roading,” for which a Vermonter in a Caprice