In this week’s Window Shop episode, we set out to find the best and most interesting cars from brands that no longer exist in the U.S. market. Think Saab, Saturn, Spyker, Sterling, Suzuki—and then wonder why so many dead brands begin with the letter S. Armed with 5000 imaginary dollars, …
Read More »The Pioneering Rally Driver Who Beat the Nazis
This story is based on the book Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best, available now. If high society had its way, Lucy Schell would have attended the toniest schools, toured the capitals of Europe, married dynastically and, until her death in …
Read More »Cheapest Daily Drivers: Window Shop with Car and Driver
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. This episode of our Window Shop with Us series is a little different. Instead of challenging C/D editors to …
Read More »Living the Van Life for $20K : Window Shop with Car and Driver
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. The months of sheltering in place have awakened our wanderlust. What better way to dream about traveling the world …
Read More »State Trooper Stops Banana Car Driver, Gives Him $20 Instead of a Ticket
Steve Braithwaite of Kalamazoo, Michigan, built this Big Banana Car out of a Ford F-150 pickup for reasons clear mainly to him. He was pulled over by a state trooper at 7:30 a.m. recently as he headed out for a long road trip to Texas. Not surprisingly, Braithwaite was not …
Read More »Finding the Best $40,000 Enthusiast Collectible Car: Window Shop with Car and Driver
In our hunt for more reasons to window-shop cars from our home offices, our colleague Dave VanderWerp offered up his current shopping challenge: Replacing his beloved 1991 Acura NSX, which he sold last year. In the most recent episode of Window Shop with Us, four Car and Driver editors offer …
Read More »Explained: Car and Driver Will Now Take Your Questions, Part Two
You have a lot of questions and occasionally we find ourselves with enough time and in a good enough mood to answer them. Joking aside, we strive to answer any and all of your question about our procedures, tests, or the mysteries of the automobile. We’ve actually been doing it …
Read More »Explained: Car and Driver Will Now Take Your Questions
You have a lot of questions and occasionally we find ourselves with enough time and in a good enough mood to answer them. Joking aside, we strive to answer any and all of your question about our procedures, tests, or the mysteries of the automobile. Use this chance to broaden …
Read More »How We’d Spec It: $20K New Cars the Way Car and Driver Editors Would Get Them
At Car and Driver, we like to hop on automakers’ configurators and wildly spec some of our dream cars with no concern about how much money they’ll (theoretically) cost us. That’s why, most of the time, the cars we’re building end up costing more than $ 100,000—cars like the Porsche …
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