Ford’s awesome off-roader gains two real doors, drops its base engine, and picks up a few new toys.
We’ve been enamored with the F-150 SVT Raptor ever since Ford unveiled the truck nearly two years ago. The off-road capability, toughness, and all-round bad-ass-ness quickly made the Raptor a C/D favorite. It’s clear we weren’t the only [...]

Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental.
Right now, traveling anywhere between Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart headquarters, the company’s Bremen factory, and its Papenburg test track, [...]

When it comes to turbochargers, two isn’t necessarily better than one.
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Remember, this is Car and Driver you’re reading. You know exactly what the BMW 335i sedan is. It’s one of the best sports sedans on the market, with a perfect balance of supple ride and superb handling. For 2011, BMW dropped the N54 [...]

This horribly mutilated STI shows that development continues on the joint Toyota/Subaru sports coupe.
Sports-car loving Toyota president and CEO Akio Toyoda is committed to producing a Lexus LFA for the masses—or at least some kind of affordable rear-drive sports car—possibly as early as late next year. That is, if the horribly chopped and bobbed Subaru [...]

It was a great weekend for the auto-racing enthusiast: F1 from Spa, perhaps the best track on the schedule; MotoGP from Indy; ALMS from another great track, Mosport; and IndyCar at Chicago.
First to Spa. The wonderful road course in the Ardennes forest of Belgium, with its long straightaways and super-fast corners, is a place for F1 [...]

The vehicles Mead drew were preposterously sleek, seemingly made of every possible material except steel, and often levitating by unexplained means.
Syd Mead has been drawing the future ever since he discovered that it paid better than drawing new Fords. Mead was designing the taillights for the ’62 Falcon Futura as a fresh graduate of the [...]

Thirty extra horsepower, a higher top speed, and brake upgrades—are they worth the extra dough?
There is a consistency and commonality of character that pervades Mercedes-Benz’s AMG products, especially those that pack the in-house tuner’s own 6.2-liter V-8. Unique to the AMG brand, the big eight is essentially the same wherever it’s found, whether that’s the [...]

Mazda’s recent technology forum was all about its new Sky family of inline-four diesel and gasoline engines, as well as a new six-speed automatic and chassis improvements to the next-gen Mazda 6. But we couldn’t help but ask Seita Kinai, senior managing executive officer of Mazda’s research and development, about the future of the rotary. [...]

A pretty big-deal little tidbit slipped out during the recent Mazda technology forum we attended: the company is tinkering with the idea of a diesel powertrain for the next-gen Mazdaspeed 3. And this came straight from Robert Davis, Mazda USA senior VP of product development, who is one of the key guys making these decisions [...]

It’s by now common knowledge that BMW will soon sate fans of the roundel badge with an M-fettled version of the 1-series coupe, to be dubbed 1-series M Coupe. To whet your BMW-loving appetite, the company has released this overly dramatic teaser video. Swelling orchestral music, quick cuts, and faux-interference editing are great, but we’d [...]