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COLUMNS EDITOR'S LETTER | TRAVISOKULSKI I HAVE A PREDILECTION for holding on to the past, to moments long gone. This is an odd thing to say as the editor of a car magazine, but until 2019 I had only ever owned one: my 1996 Miata. And even though my feelings about the car hadn't changed, I was driving the Miata so infrequently that it felt wasteful to let it sit in the garage. [Extracted from the article]

Subaru partnered up with the sim giant for a six-race rallycross championship with drivers from nearly every discipline. Many drivers have rigs with multiple monitors, supportive race seats, and ultra-realistic pedals. If race-deprived fans will watch marbles going around a course on YouTube without an F1 season, then they'll surely watch real drivers in a virtual championship. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS our world has changed since we finished the May issue of Road & Track. The coronavirus pandemic has touched every part of life. Yet car lovers and motorsports fanatics are nothing if not inventive. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS IT'S A MYTH WE'VE been fighting for years: All-wheel drive is the only thing you need to get through the winter. An all-wheel drive car on all-season tires will be slightly less inept in snow than one with just two driven wheels. But watch any automaker's winter ads - an all-wheel drive family car crashing through the snow without worry - and you know there's misinformation out there. [Extracted from the article]

Faced with the choice between being illegal or a danger to other drivers, many people choose to sit comfortably at 80 mph for their entire commute, knowing there's a small chance of an officer singling them out as an example. This January, while passing a few cars on my commute, I noticed I was outpacing traffic. The trooper turned on his spotlight, shined it directly on the truck's driver, and sped off. [Extracted from the article]

Most of Dad's time in the garage involved clutches. Rebuilding the clutch was a precision job, and Dad was meticulous. Karting is notoriously cutthroat, family teams with motorhomes and pro-level haulers mingling with little guys who haul their karts in the back of a Dodge van. [Extracted from the article]

Pickups, SUVs, and crossovers have skyrocketed in popularity, and manufacturers once known solely for cars now have a fleet of taller, heavier vehicles. Ford, the company that gave our country its first affordable passenger car, has announced its plan to end passenger-car sales in America in favor of crossovers, pickups, and SUVs. Porsche canceled an entire endurance-racing program in the early 2000s to create the Cayenne SUV (page 78). [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates the Global MX-5 Cup Car from Mazda.