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Americans tend toward an instinctive aversion to moderation. We embrace drama and revel in inhuman scale, a nation of would-be tycoons and indefatigable explorers. We come up with ideas like Mount Rushmore and the Sphere in Vegas and nobody can talk us out of them. We look at the $20 million house on Zillow that has its own go-kart track and think, “That could use some more elevation change around Turn 3.” Into this miasma of ambition and delusion rides the 2024 Honda Ridgeline TrailSport, a rel…
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From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver.In the past few years, there have been several movies about cars and racing: Ford v. Ferrari. Ferrari. Gran Turismo, featuring some Ferraris. Even Brad Pitt is making a Formula 1 flick. Obviously, Hollywood loves these kinds of movies, and I want a piece of the action. So here’s my screenplay for the upcoming hit film Racing Movie.Close-up of the protagonist, BART SKIDMORE, behind the wheel. Scenery flashes by.BART: I want to be a race-car driver…
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The debut of a new engine used to be a semi-regular occasion. As cars evolved, so did their powerplants, and manufacturers regularly made seven-figure investments to develop new engines. With the EV transition in full swing, that’s no longer the case. Major companies like Volkswagen have been announcing that there will be no new internal-combustion engines in the pipeline and multiple manufacturers have pledged to go all-EV by 2040. But the marine industry is a different story, and in recent yea…
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“Is that real?” A woman is standing next to the 2024 Tesla Cybertruck outside a hotel in Venice, California, and she’s pretty certain she’s looking at an escaped movie prop. “Like, is there a car underneath that?” she asks. We inform her that yes, it is real, but if any vehicle will cause you to question objective reality, it’s this one. To those of us who are into cars, it seems like the Cybertruck has been around forever—it was announced in November 2019 and has seemingly been in the news ever…
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From the March/April 2024 issue of Car and Driver.Somewhere along the line, Ferrari decided it would be better for its cars to flatter their owners than to kill them. With few exceptions—the Enzo springs to mind—the modern Ferrari will tolerate a lot of buffoonery. Most mid-engine Ferraris from the past 20 years are so easy to drive, so benign at their limits, that you can get out and think you should immediately pursue an FIA license. But that chassis-tuning wizardry becomes harder to execute a…
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Traditionalism, in the car business, is often a euphemism for corporate penury. “Our buyers are very traditionalist,” a car company will say, by way of explaining its continued deployment of some Bronze Age technology that should’ve been jettisoned decades before. Sometimes, there’s a kernel of truth in there—certain Porsche fans still mistrust the dark magic of water-cooled engines—but more often the company in question simply amortized research and development costs long ago and is thus happy…
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“What are you gonna use that for?” It’s a question that applies to many of our favorite machines: supercharged V-8 muscle cars, 1000-hp electric sedans, 200-mph two-seat European road missiles. It also hangs over the new breed of off-road-oriented heavy-duty pickups, like the Chevrolet Silverado HD ZR2. These goliaths seem too huge for trail work and too stiff for desert running, yet nonetheless feature all-terrain tires, a lifted suspension, and locking axles. What are you gonna use that for? P…
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For those of you baffled and confused by our last “Would You Rather?” and its segment-straddling combatants, we now give you a head-to-head comparison you can wrap your, uh, noggin around. Today we consider the Jeep Gladiator Sport S and the GMC Canyon AT4, two mid-size trucks that directly compete for your not-quite-full-size pickup dollar. (In this case, the Jeep is a 2022 model and the GMC a 2023, but neither is significantly different for 2024). Both have off-road pretensions, a 7700-pound m…
3 months ago
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Exterior and interior images of the 2022 Jeep Gladiator vs. 2023 GMC Canyon AT4.
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Welcome to “Would You Rather?” where we consider cars that might compete for a spot in your garage even if they never show up together in a traditional comparison test. In this case, the 2024 Infiniti QX60 and 2024 Genesis GV60 are not totally dissimilar, with closely matched prices, upscale interiors, and all-wheel-drive powertrains. The biggest difference is those powertrains, in that the QX60 employs a 3.5-liter, 295-hp V-6 and a nine-speed automatic transmission, while the GV60 relies on a p…
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Genesis GV60 vs. Infiniti QX60 photos.
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Car companies do their best not to air the dirty laundry behind any given car’s development, but sometimes it’s easy to see where the internal disagreements lie. In the case of the 2023 Dodge Hornet GT, it’s obvious that the engineers wanted a hot hatch in the vein of the Volkswagen GTI, while the product-planning decision makers wanted an inoffensive mainstream crossover that would sell one bazillion units per year. The final product ended up somewhere in between, an affordable crossover with a…
3 months ago
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I used to own a 2007 Mitsubishi Outlander. I’ll skip my usual defense of that purchase (which amounts to “Mitsubishi tried to Evo everything a little bit back then”) to focus on one of the 2007 Outlander’s more unusual selling points: its terrible third-row seat. The Outlander’s third row was as if someone mocked up a folding seat out of uncooked lasagna noodles and then somehow it went straight into production just like that. It was so thin it was two-dimensional, with a lower cushion (if you c…
3 months ago
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From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver.I hate towing. Any time I tow a trailer, at least 30 percent of my mental capacity is occupied with generating a scrolling encyclopedia of nightmare scenarios that might be unfolding behind the truck. To tow a trailer is, by definition, to be distracted, so I welcomed the chance to tow my boat—a 21-foot Sea Fox—behind a GMC Yukon Denali with Super Cruise. While the Yukon minded its lane, I was free to check the rear-view mirrors neurotically for evid…
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From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver.The Booty PatrolYes, police deputies in DeSoto County, Florida, issued Gabriel Luviano a citation regarding his white Chevy Silverado. No, it wasn’t for the graphics, which resemble the U.S. Border Patrol’s color scheme but substitute “Border” with “Booty.” The ticket was for “violating FSS 316.2397, which pertains to Certain Lights Prohibited.” In other words, Florida might have laws, but not one against calling your truck the Booty Patrol. And if y…
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From the December 2023 issue of Car and Driver. For many of us, watching Mama Fratelli outrun the cops in the opening scene of The Goonies was the origin of our Jeep Cherokee lust. There might’ve been some poetic license there—in 1984, the year the movie was shot, the Cherokee maxed out at 110 horsepower—but eventually, the rectilinear Jeep got a powerplant worthy of epic beach escapes. The 4.0-liter inline-six arrived for 1987 with 173 horsepower and vaulted the Cherokee to its current exalted…
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From the January 2024 issue of Car and Driver.The Germans have a word for everything. In Munich, zuzeln means sucking a sausage out of its casing. BMW has employed a bit of automotive zuzeln with the 2024 530i xDrive, removing a familiar filling—a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder hooked to a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive—and stuffing it into a new wrapper. Not to dive too deep into Bavarian etymology, but the reason Germans zuzeln is because the region’s signature…
4 months ago
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In the Floriopoli pit garages, along the route of Sicily’s Targa Florio road race, there’s a roughly translated warning from the mayor to the residents of a local town. Dating to the race’s early days—which correspond to the invention of cars themselves—it reads, “Listen, listen. Tomorrow there is the car races. Keep inside the house children, dogs, pigs, and chickens. Who dies, dies because of their own fault, and the mayor does not take the responsibility!” We don’t know if a similar warning w…
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The original WRX TR launched in 2006 as a stripped-down, minimalist trim aimed at buyers who planned to start modding their cars the day they got home from the dealership. The moniker stood for “Tuner Ready,” and the TR went without a rear spoiler, fog lights, or a fancy stereo. Why include a nice sound system that’ll immediately be replaced by a sweet Pioneer OEL head unit with a swimming-dolphin display and a Rockford amp bridged down to about a quarter-ohm? (Not that we built something exactl…
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For two cars with so much in common, the BMW Z4 and the Toyota GR Supra have wildly different public profiles. They’re like the Philadelphia Eagles’ Jason Kelce and his brother, Travis, who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs—relatives, and both in the same business, but one of them is way more famous. And yes, in this analogy, the Toyota Supra would be the one dating Taylor Swift.Well, BMW has had enough of the Toyota getting all the attention, especially regarding the Supra’s six-speed manual tra…
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From the December 2023 issue of Car and Driver.For roughly the past two decades, it’s been my unfounded but firmly held belief that new cars should cost no more than $30,000. I’m not saying this makes sense, only that my financial perceptions calcified a long time ago, and I’m having a hard time coping. Kid, that lemonade’s how much? It should be 25 cents a cup, tops. Corvettes should cost maybe 50 grand, and most airfare should be $300 round trip. I’m only pleasantly surprised by prices when I…
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