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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 fender stamping. It also uses thinner windshield glass, ditches the rear speakers, and tosses the floor mats. We can’t help but respect Porsche’s all-in commitment o…
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The biggest knock against Porsche’s first EV, the 2020 Taycan, was its lackluster EPA range figures. Those initial all-important numbers ranged from just 192 to 203 miles. We specify EPA here because in our real-world, 75-mph highway range testing, the Taycan has been one of the biggest overachievers and among the minority of EVs that surpass their EPA range at highway speeds. For example, we saw 280 miles from a rear-drive sedan with the larger battery pack that had a 225-mile EPA figure. With…
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From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver.There’s a concept popularized by the English philosopher William of Ockham in the 1300s. Called Occam’s razor, it advises that, when given multiple hypotheses with equal explanatory power over a phenomenon, the simplest answer is most often the right one.For example, say a compact German performance sedan accelerates to 60 mph in under three seconds. You’d suppose it’s sending power to all four wheels, and it’s possibly electric. But you wouldn’t…
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From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver.Lap Time: 2:58.1Class: LL3 | Base: $123,295 | As-Tested: $141,445Power and Weight: 617 hp • 5468 lb • 8.9 lb/hpTires: Michelin Pilot Sport 4S; F: 295/35ZR-21 (107Y) ★, R: 315/30ZR-22 (107Y) ★If you roll up to a track day in an X5 M, most will assume it’s your tow vehicle. But you know what they say about assumptions, and BMW’s most ferocious X5 has the ability to earn more than a few surprise point-bys. The latest X5 M is 130 pounds heavier than…
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From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver. Lap Time: 3:04.9Class: LL2 | Base: $62,925 | As-Tested: $63,100Power and Weight: 576 hp • 4813 lb • 8.4 lb/hpTires: Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3 SUV; 255/40R-21 102YTo run quick laps, driver confidence is as essential as a car’s capabilities. Ours shattered like a Fabergé egg used for batting practice when, on our first lap, the Kia EV6 GT smacked us with a wallop of turn-in oversteer in the Climbing Esses and briefly became a 576-hp lawn mowe…
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When divvying up driving assignments at this year’s Lightning Lap, testing director Dave VanderWerp wound up with the three heaviest entries. While you might suspect this was a severe short-straw situation, that’s not at all the case.Sit with me and deputy editor of video Carlos Lago as we re-watch and dissect setting hot laps around VIR’s Grand Course in the Kia EV6 GT, BMW X5 M Competition, and Lucid Air Sapphire. Unlike some EVs, Kia’s hottest, the 576-hp EV6 GT, didn’t reduce power during a…
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From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver.Lap Time: 2:44.3Class: LL4 | Base: $250,500 | As-Tested: $250,500Power and Weight: 1003 hp • 5300 lb • 5.3 lb/hpTires: Michelin Pilot Sport 4S; F: 265/35ZR-20 (99Y) LM1, R: 295/30ZR-21 (102Y) LM1With a deep breath, we attempted to suppress our intimidation as we belted into the first Lightning Lap entry with a four-digit peak-horsepower figure. First, we got acclimated in the Lucid Air Sapphire’s 767-hp Endurance mode, one of three choices once y…
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Nearly every major automaker has announced plans to switch from today’s J1772 plug for their EVs to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) plug in the 2025 timeframe. This migration will inevitably lead to EV owners needing to be mindful of having the right adapters on hand to be able to accept whatever plug type they encounter. Tesla’s latest home-charging offering is its Universal Wall Connector, which has a built-in adapter to switch seamlessly between J1772 and NACS plug types.Altho…
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For 2024, the single-motor Polestar 2 has made the switch from front- to rear-wheel drive, an unheard of year-over-year change.From a more equal weight balance to much more playful limit handling, the Polestar 2 is better for it. Even efficiency doesn’t suffer.We may start to see more rear-drive EVs in the mainstream realm, such as the recently launched Chevy Blazer EV.Welcome to Car and Driver’s Testing Hub, where we zoom in on the test numbers. We’ve been pushing vehicles to their limits since…
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From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver.What’s a common complaint from buyers of small vehicles? That they’re too small, of course. Chevy is looking to neutralize that one with this new substantially larger Trax, stretching its overall length by a whopping 11.0 inches and leapfrogging the competition. While the least expensive but no longer smallest Chevy retains pricing firmly in subcompact-crossover territory, its 106.3-inch wheelbase exactly matches that of the class-larger Honda CR-V.…
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From the November 2023 issue of Car and Driver.A road trip that puts tires in all 48 contiguous states and hits 50 major U.S. landmarks was the perfect exclamation point to put at the end of our time with our long-term 2022 CT5-V Blackwing. Our route followed the framework of a 13,699-mile itinerary designed by a data scientist in 2015.We figured we could get it done in about 30 days if we kept a steady supply of fresh drivers, so we sliced it into seven chunks, with keys handed off from one pil…
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From the October 2023 issue of Car and Driver. A love of driving propelled Bruce Robinson’s career as an engineer in the automotive industry, with his lengthiest tenure at Nissan, where he even toiled on the hallowed GT-R and 350/370Z. Shortly after his retirement, this same desire, along with a hunger to see the country, led Robinson to get his commercial driver’s license and embark on a short-lived career driving Class 8 trucks. But he soon found the required waypoints, stops, and scheduling t…
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2024 Lexus LM500h exterior and interior photos.
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Minivans are awesome. They’re vastly more space efficient than the three-row SUVs Americans have flocked to, and their lower ride height tends to both impart dynamic advantages and ease ingress and egress. But imagine how much stretch-out space there would be if you replaced a minivan’s second and third rows with just two princely seats.You don’t have to imagine if you travel to Asia, where the van as executive shuttle is alive and well in countries such as South Korea, China, and Japan. Lexus d…
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Lexus showed a yoke-style steering wheel at the debut of its first EV, the RZ450e, but this steering system has yet to make it into production.We drove a substantially retuned version at an event Lexus held at Fuji Speedway and still think its low-speed response is a little too eager.The company plans to complete development of this steer-by-wire system next year.Not long after Tesla put a yoke steering wheel in the Model S and X in 2021, Lexus showed one in the debut of its first EV, the RZ450e…
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That’s almost a 30 percent improvement over a previous truck wearing all-terrain tires.
over 1 year ago
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The new brake-by-wire system separately controls each corner with an electric motor.
over 1 year ago
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Is Ford’s bestselling pickup what it will take to drag the U.S. into the electric era?
almost 2 years ago
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Braking from 100 mph is our newest test.
almost 2 years ago
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At 4.0 seconds flat to 60 mph, Lightning is a very appropriate name.
almost 2 years ago
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With its Pro Power Onboard generator function, the Lightning can charge other
EVs. And also itself?
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