So why this site? My hope is that there are many like me who share the same passion for the cars they drive, or wish they could drive. Contained within this site are pages representing every manufacturer and every model they presently offer. Which is your favorite? Which one do you aspire to covet? Which one do you have personal experience with and recommend we buy? avoid? or leave abandoned on the side of the interstate? I’m interested in your opinions and I’m sure many others are too.

I hope you enjoy!





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First Drive: 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 Thursday, 24 May 2012, 4:05 am

First Drive: 2013 Ford Shelby GT500

200 mph for the masses

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: 200 mph is an absurd number. Jet airliners take off and land at slower speeds. 200 mph is twice as fast as most Americans will ever drive, and it requires twenty-five times the power needed to go 60 mph. The staff of this magazine has driven some of the fastest, most exotic cars in the world, and yet only one of us — European bureau chief Georg Kacher — has driven 200 mph.

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First Drive: 2013 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 10:05 pm

First Drive: 2013 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG

Long live the wild child.

What to make of the fact that the Mercedes-Benz Galendewagen has seen a nearly fifty percent increase in sales from 2009 to 2011? The fact that this vehicle, which was originally designed for military, not civilian, use, is now more than thirty years old (it dates from 1979) apparently does little to deter its well-heeled buyers. Nor does the ancient SUV’s appalling gas mileage (13 mpg combined city/highway, in the case of the G550). The fact that a GL, or an ML, is far roomier inside also appears to be irrelevant.

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2012 Fiat 500 Abarth Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 9:05 pm

2012 Fiat 500 Abarth

We can’t recall the last time we had this much fun with a press car.

The 500 Abarth has 58 percent more power and 73 percent more torque than the 500 on which it’s based, but halfway through my evening with the Abarth, I was not thinking that the car was 58 percent better than the base model. I was wondering if Fiat had made the car better at all.

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Photo Gallery: 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth – Editors’ Notebook – Automobile Magazine

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Noise, Vibration & Harshness: Snow And Ice: Teach Your Children Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 4:05 pm

Noise, Vibration & Harshness: Snow And Ice: Teach Your Children

I remember too well my first winter driving disaster, sliding the nearly new parental Saab 99LE sideways through a stop sign at the bottom of our hill and across a major truck thoroughfare.

I remember too well my first winter driving disaster, sliding the nearly new parental Saab 99LE sideways through a stop sign at the bottom of our hill and across a major truck thoroughfare. My life flashed before my eyes as I prepared to meet the fate of the Cassidy kid up the street, who died at this intersection when he failed to stop his wooden sled in time. Years later, his name was still being reverently invoked for the benefit of the youthful sledding community.

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Dyer Consequences: Large and in Charge Monday, 21 May 2012, 8:05 pm

Dyer Consequences: Large and in Charge

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t pay nearly enough attention to Class 6 medium-duty electric trucks.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t pay nearly enough attention to Class 6 medium-duty electric trucks. And I think my colleagues around here would have to shamefully concur that we’ve had a coverage deficiency regarding that particular segment. But your thirst for news about Class 6 medium-duty electric trucks is about to be slaked in a major way. Prepare to have your mind exploded by this, the world-exclusive first test-drive of the Balqon Mule M150.

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Driven: 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco Monday, 21 May 2012, 8:05 pm

Driven: 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco

Caught between the subjective and the objective.

The outgoing Chevy Malibu — not quite gone, really, as 2012 models are still available — was one of Bob Lutz’s notable achievements at GM. It pulled Chevy’s midsize nameplate out of the rental-car ooze and became a handsome, competent entry in the very tough mid-size sedan segment. The 2013 model builds on some of those achievements, but it might have made a better first impression with its full range of powertrain offerings.

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A Woman’s Place Is In The Garage – SEMA Mustang Build Powered By Women Monday, 21 May 2012, 10:05 am

A Woman’s Place Is In The Garage – SEMA Mustang Build Powered By Women

Vote for Your Favorite Design at HOTROD.com on May 23

This summer, the women of the auto industry will strut their stuff and show off their skills to raise money for the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund with the first-ever SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women.

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Toyota Reveals 2013 NASCAR Camry, We Sit Down with the President of TRD Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 1:36 am

And then there were three: Toyota Racing Development debuted its 2013 Toyota Camry that will be competing in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup series, beginning with the Daytona 500 season opener next February. Read full story »

Car and Driver Blog | Steven Cole Smith

2012 BMW M6 Convertible Test: 0 to 60 mph in Four Flat Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 11:36 pm

The 2012 BMW M6 convertible is a puzzling machine. Two conundrums, for example, present themselves immediately upon use of the primary controls. The first is trivial: the presence of a narrow, three-pedal-style brake-pedal pad in a car with no clutch pedal. The second is of infinitely more import to an enthusiast, being that this is [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Michael Austin

Mercedes-Benz May Be Planning C300 and E300 with 248-hp V-6, Documents Show Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 10:44 pm

Mercedes-Benz is preparing a light late-in-life face lift for the E-class, and that may include an entry-level E300 for the 2013 model year. Paperwork the company filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration includes entries for an E300 and an E300 4Matic. Each is described as a sedan with a 3.5-liter V-6 gasoline engine. [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Justin Berkowitz

2013 Chevy Camaro ZL1 Convertible Stops By, Shows Off New Retro Rearview Mirror Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 9:40 pm

Al Oppenheiser sweats the details. The Camaro chief engineer pulled the frameless rearview mirror off of his ’68 and told those responsible for the modern car’s reflective surfaces to “make me one like that.” This throwback element will be standard equipment on all 2013 versions of the retro-futuristic Camaro; we saw it in person as [...]

Car and Driver Blog | David Gluckman

2014 Ford Fiesta ST Five-Door Spy Photos: A Six-Speed Manual, Rear Disc Brakes, and MyFord Touch Are Headed to the Hottest Fiesta Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 4:01 pm

What It Is: A covered-up 2014 Ford Fiesta ST five-door prototype; we saw the car in near-production-spec “concept” form at last year’s Frankfurt and Los Angeles auto shows, and the three-door version already has been fully revealed for Europe. (As is the case with the three-door Fiesta, the three-door ST will stay in Europe. (more…)

Car and Driver Blog | Alexander Stoklosa

This Week on the C/D YouTube Channel: Jumping Cars, Beater Drifting, a Chronic Speeder, and a Doorless Nissan Leaf Monday, 21 May 2012, 9:20 pm

It’s a new week, which means new episodes of Full Hoon, Battle of the Beaters, Driver Rehab, and Car and Driver: Tested on our YouTube channel. Today’s installment of Full Hoon explores car jumping, interesting motorcycle use, and inappropriate taxi drivers. Tomorrow, two teams will attempt to build drift machines from crapcans for a fresh [...]

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Italian Fashion Editor Creates One-off Mini Cooper S Roadster to Benefit AIDS Charity Monday, 21 May 2012, 8:49 pm

Provided with a Mini Cooper S Roadster as a blank canvas, Franca Sozzani, chief editor of Italian Vogue, created a rolling work of art to mark the 20th anniversary of the Life Ball charity event and auction held annually in Vienna. After coating the Roadster’s exterior in a custom matte finish named “Deepest Purple,” Sozzani [...]

Car and Driver Blog | Andrew Wendler