Car and Driver

This magazine is for automobile enthusiasts interested in domestic and imported autos. Each issue contains road tests and features on performance, sports, international coverage of road race, stock and championship car events, technical reports, personalities and products. Road tests are conducted with electronic equipment by engineers and journalists and the results are an important part of the magazine's review section. Get Car and Driver digital magazine subscription today.

Backfires: • The joyful noise of the commentariat, rebutted sporadically by Ed.

Explained: A Hard Cell

Editor’s Letter: • It is with no small amount of self-contemplation that I type this, my last column as Car and Driver’s editor-inchief. How does one condense 10 years spent doing every boy’s dream job into a mere half-page?

Car and Driver

JEEPERS’ CREEPERS • JEEP PLAYS TO ITS BASE WITH ITS ANNUAL SET OF MOAB CONCEPTS.

STOP WATCH • HAVING CONQUERED POWER STEERING, ELECTRONS ARE NOW COMING FOR YOUR BRAKE PEDAL.

HEAD CASE • WHAT GOES ON INSIDE ONE OF THOSE LIFESAVING CRASH HATS?

E PLURIBUS UNUM • A BRIEF LOOK AT HOW AMERICANS’ CAR PREFERENCES VARY

HINDSIGHT IS 1080P • BACKUP CAMERAS ARE MANDATORY. BUT NOT ALL OF THEM ARE GOOD.

THE BIG PICTURE

John Phillips

Daniel Pund

Ezra Dyer

RAGTOPS TO RICHES • TWO PRICEY FOUR - CYLINDER CONVER TIBLES STR KE GOLO ON A TANGLE OF SIERRA NEVADA ASPHALT.

K-POP

CHART TOPPERS: KOREA’S BESTSINGLES, AS OF THIS MOMENT.

ARCHITECTS OF ASCENDANCE

2020 KIA TELLURIDE SX AWD • JACKPOT • KIA IS SET TO WIN BIG IN THE THREE-ROWFAMILY SUV SEGMENT.

SHOW BUSINESS

SOUP TO NUTS

ROCK DOWN TO ELECTRIC AVENUE

GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, SOUL’D! • CAREFUL CURATION KEEPS KIA’S SMALL QUASI-CROSSOVER ROLLING THROUGH A STRONG ECONOMY.

2020 HYUNDAI SONATA • RESOLVE • AS COMPETITORS GIVE UP, HYUNDAI DIGS IN. THE RESULT IS A BREAKTHROUGH

MASTER STUDENT • Initially sourcing major components from other automakers, Hyundai kept refining the Sonata until it was a formidable midsize-sedan player worthy of imitation.

SEAT TIME • Getting a test drive in the Aston Martin Valkyrie, the hypercar under development with Red Bull Racing, is for now about as likely as us being able to afford one. Instead, we drive it the way the engineers do: in the racing simulator.

Cars of a Certain Age • If It’s at Least 25 Years Old, That Ingot of Unobtanium Can Now Be Yours.

25 at 25* • *YEARS OF AGE OR MORE

The thrill and the agony of importing a car can mean taking risks. What’s your tolerance?

Age of Consent • Driving Three JDM Sort-of-Legends, Now Legal in America.

Import ownership isn’t all admiring stares and high-fives. There’s some actual legwork involved, too. • Finally, a quarter-centenarian not-for-America import that you’ve had your eye on is within your sights. Now the adventure begins:

Evoqative • Familiar looks disguise substantial upgrades and mild-hybrid tech in Land Rover’s new Range Rover Evoque.

MIL-SPEC TECH

Open Wide • Robert Wadlow could’ve told you that bigger is not always better, but the BMW 7-series grille begs to differ.

The Glee of Three • Mazda’s excellent 3 now offers all-wheel drive, further elevating it above the mainstream.

Sweden Savory • The 2019 Volvo S60 R-Design T6 AWD is eye candy that makes the numbers.

Seeking a Richer Inner Life • VW’s Jetta GLI 35th Anniversary Edition is an instrument of joy in need of a better instrument panel.

COMPACT MOVES

The Big Blue Ball • A test of planet Earth, our enormous, rapid home.

The Pretender • The Lexus RC F Track Edition is gonna...