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.

She’s tiny and squirmy and has changed my being.

BACKFIRES • Think of it as the peer-review section of the magazine, hosted by your pal Ed.

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Mail-Order Ride • For the U.S. Postal Service’s new truck, the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle, the design has a purpose. It isn’t beauty.

Victoria, British Columbia • Vancouver Island’s “Garden City” has a blooming car culture.

Fortunate Sone • There’s more than one way to measure and quantify what we hear when driving a car.

Bob Lutz’s Paper Chase • As an auto exec, Lutz railed against paper pushers. Now in his 90s, he has become one—but not in the conventional sense.

Based on my experience running my neighborhood road association, I advise you to go hug a DOT worker.

We’re hearing the call of the wild, but it’s from the off-road trim packages that are taking over the highways.

10Best CARS • A long drive makes you hungry: hungry for good food, but also for a great car. Every year, we hold a competition to select the very best vehicles you can buy. We spend two weeks driving, testing, and evaluating new and updated models along with last year’s winners. Here are the results for 2026: our 10Best Cars and 10Best Trucks and SUVs awards. A recognition of the best vehicles for sale, not just the best of what’s new. Let’s dig in.

WINNERS AND LOSERS • 2025, WHAT A WEIRD YEAR. 2026 HAS TO BE BETTER, RIGHT? RIGHT?

10Best TRUCKS AND SUVS

LATE BLOOMER • THE NISSAN LEAF LAUNCHED THE EV ERA. IT HAS FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO THE REVOLUTION IT STARTED.

COUNTERPOINTS

WE CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT WE WANT

THE GREAT EV RESET • SALES OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES WILL LIKELY FALL FOR A WHILE, BUT DON’T BELIEVE THE GRIM PROGNOSIS—EVS ARE HERE TO STAY.

M5 vs. M5 • THE BMW M5 SEDAN TAKES ON ITS HOMONYMOUS RIVAL, THE KUBOTA

Mia Bella’s Got Sauce • The Ferrari 296 Speciale gets the once-a-generation factory treatment—and a name that’s basically a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Marriage of Convenience

A Blast from the Past • Morgan Plus Four HIGHS: Modern performance, steers and handles well, a real conversation starter. LOWS: Inherit the wind; unlockable; please, sir, may I have some storage space?

High Impact • Porsche 911 GT3 Touring HIGHS: Every drive is a qualifying lap, screams at 9000 rpm, three pedals are better than two. LOWS: Sometimes you just want to chill, no more analog tach, the thought that you’d enjoy it more if you were younger.

A gutsier engine makes the Volkswagen Tiguan SEL R-Line Turbo the Tig that zigs.

Logos à Go-Go • Mercedes-Maybach SL680 HIGHS: Cushier ride, elevated exclusivity, enhanced snob appeal. LOWS: A Louis Vuitton handbag becomes a car, pooch-perch rear seats are gone, cleaning the white carpet (or having to doff your shoes).

Drivelines: Blips • HIGHLIGHTING THE DETAILS THAT MATTER

Out of Re-Tirement

The Best Odds • The cars I recall most fondly were neither the prettiest nor the quickest. Certainly not the most expensive. They were machines that emerged willfully peculiar and intractably idiosyncratic.