Category: Features

From the June 2023 issue of Car and Driver. It’s time for another episode of They Can, but Should They? Today we’re pointing our questions at the entry point to the automobile, the door handle. That is, if we can find it. These days drivers might use buttons, levers, pull tabs, touch-activated pads, proximity sensors, […]

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? We can […]

Acura Precision Certified inspection points: 182 Acura Precision Used inspection points: 112 Acura Precision Certified eligible vehicles: 2022–2023 vehicles with less than 80,000 miles Acura Precision Used eligible vehicles: 10 years old or less Acura Precision Certified warranty: Powertrain—Seven years or 100,000 miles from original in-service date; Bumper-to-bumper—Two years additional or 100,000 total odometer miles […]

From the June 2023 issue of Car and Driver. There’s a 7.3-liter V-8 hidden under the doghouse, and at full whack, its snare-drum-tumbling-in-a-cement-mixer soundtrack calls up memories of school buses. I’m climbing a mild grade through Arizona, not in a Blue Bird or a Thomas, but in a Ford E-350 chassis-cab dually, and the engine […]

On September 20, 1936, record-setting aviator Amelia Earhart posed for a picture in front of her Cord convertible and Lockheed Electra airplane. All three eventually vanished. Although Earhart and her Lockheed are still missing, her Cord has since resurfaced. The Cord 810 (later known as the 812) debuted in late 1935. Whereas most cars of […]

Last time we saw Winslow Bent he had started a company called Legacy Classic Trucks in Driggs, Idaho, just west of his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. At that time, he was showing Autoweek his newly refurbished 1947 Dodge Power Wagon, a truck so completely and perfectly restored that we didn’t even wince when we […]

COLUMNS Editor’s Letter: Picture PagesDriving a Ferrari SF90 Spider around L.A. made us the centerpiece of social-media photo shoots, but it also inspired better souls.By Tony Quiroga Ezra Dyer: I Love Jeep ThrillsMate Rimac wants to build cool cars and change the world, but he knows he can probably do only one of those things.By […]

Whether you’ve never watched a Formula 1 race, or you can recite every F1 world champion dating back to Giuseppe Farina, Stuart Codling’s new book Formula 1 Drive to Survive—The Unofficial Companion is a fascinating quick course on the world’s most popular motorsport. F1 has an unfortunate history of gatekeeping and pushing new fans away […]

Thanks in large part to Netflix’s Drive to Survive, motorsports are once again an accepted topic of conversation at cocktail parties, right up there with whatever happened this week on Succession. Speaking of cocktail parties, we recently attended an evening get-together at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, where Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren […]

Kudos to Lexus for getting into the electric SUV market, even if the five-passenger RZ has room for improvement. We’ll start with the good stuff, such as the RZ’s elegant cabin, smooth ride, and quick steering. With a base price of $59,650, the RZ isn’t cheap, though it’s competitively priced. The 308-hp dual-motor powertrain makes […]