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Car and Driver
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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.
Product Description
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.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Some other magazines may be better in specific areas, but for my money C&D is simply the tops for the all around car buff. It offers the best balance of serious automotive journalism, including perhaps the most comprehensive testing, along with plenty of offbeat fun. C&D isn't above indulging in such hare brained stunts as sending a group of AWD minivans on a trek from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in the dead of winter (a trip a friend of mine and I did the previous summer in a rented Chevy 4x4 pickup) and racing a Porsche 911 against a Porsche powered small plane in order to entertain their readers. I've been reading it since the late 70's and I always liked their sense of fun and irreverence. In the years since, they've matured a bit, but thankfully not too much. I mean, what other car magazine rates, among other things, the "beer case" capacity of an SUV? As for the complaints listed in some other reviews here, the one that makes no sense to me is the charge that they are somehow "right wing". True, they are unabashed car nuts, which probably offends the Naderite contingent of the political Left that seems to hate anything related to the automobile, but why these people even bother to read a car mag in the first place is beyond me. They'd be better served reading "Bike & Granola" instead. The other, more serious complaint, is that they favor certain carmakers over others, most notably Honda and BMW. I've no experience with the latter, however, my current car, a 1991 Civic Si (picked in part because of a good review in a C&D comparison test) just turned over 200K on the odometer, has been extremely reliable, and to top it off is a joy to drive. So, if the guys at C&D consistently rate Hondas and Bimmers better than the competition, I tend to take them at their word, especially since I recall how, back in the 80's they were beating up on BMW for routinely selling overpriced, underpowered Yuppiemobilies to poseurs who cared more about impressing people at the golf club than handling, acceleration and braking. In sum, after two decades of following this magazine, it's still the first one I look to when I want to check out a specific car, or just see the latest trends in the auto world. Rating a car is a fine mix of the objective (test data and so forth) and the subjective (ride quality, handling properties, etc.) and these guys consistently do the best job. And, if they through in some fun and entertainment, so much the better. In fact, I may just have to start subscribing again.
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