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LOVING PORSCHE'S 911 is cliche. For nearly 60 years it has been the most identifiable sports car. It's won countless magazine comparison tests and is consistently lauded for how it [...]

IT'S AN ICONIC IMAGE. Monte Carlo Rally, 1964. Paddy Hopkirk flinging a red Cooper S around a hairpin, rear wheel cocked, driver leaning nearly as much as the car. It's [...]

THE SUPRA ONLY arrived last year, but Toyota is already tweaking the formula. Originally, the two-seat sports car, which shares its platform and drivetrain with the BMW Z4, offered a [...]

FOR A CERTAIN GENERATION, THE SOPRA DEFINES JAPANESE PERFORMANCE. IT'S AN ODE to the 2000GT and a testament to Toyota's proud engineering heritage, an elegant grand tourer that was also [...]

It's never been a secret. But now the mid-engine Corvette is real--and it's a transformational event for America's most well-known sports car. IT'S EXISTED FOR DECADES AS A RUMOR, a [...]

BLAME EDITOR-AT-LARGE PETER EGAN. When we came up with the original list of cars for this test, the MG TC wasn't on it. Not that the MG isn't significant. It [...]

ENGINEERS ARE NEVER SATISFIED. WHEN A PROJECT ENDS, they can't--or won't--stop tinkering. Take the Ford Mustang Performance Package Level Two, for example. It's the product of engineers who couldn't leave [...]

THE MIATA BARELY makes an argument for itself in this crowd. There's no killer specification, no wild number that'll enthrall someone looking for performance excellence. Every stat appears adequate, and [...]

You won't confuse the Sabre for any other McLaren. McLaren Special Operations (MSO) made sure of it. Only 15 will be made, each with an exacting set of requirements from [...]

LEXUS SAYS IT takes 15 seconds to put the top down on the new LC500 Convertible. Please note, however: The first time you do it, it will take ten minutes. [...]

Crowning the Road & Track Performance Car of the Year is not an easy task. Each fall, we gather every new or revised performance car that we can get our [...]

WHEN I SOLD my cars earlier this year, it was to fulfill a fantasy. See, I've long wanted a Lotus Esprit, the wedge-shaped four-cylinder lightweight cobbled together in an English [...]

We first met our hero 27 years ago. Now we meet its successor. IT WAS 27 YEARS AGO this month that the cover of Road & Track first featured the [...]

I HAVE A PREDILECTION for holding on to the past, to moments long gone. It's why my closet is littered with old video game consoles, most from a company that [...]

I ALWAYS GET NERVOUS before starting a race. There's just something about those few moments sitting on the grid when everything rushes through your head and you're too alone with [...]

OUR WORLD HAS CHANGED since we finished the May issue of Road & Track. The coronavirus pandemic has touched every part of life. The auto industry is at a standstill. [...]

IT'S A MYTH WE'VE been fighting for years: All-wheel drive is the only thing you need to get through the winter. Fact is, all-wheel drive is not your savior, and [...]

most days in high school, I came home to an empty house. That didn't mean no one was home. It meant my dad was in the garage working on the [...]

WE GET EMAILS. Some are addressed to the wrong car magazine. Some are complimentary. Some replace the ampersand in our name with the word 'and,' a capital offense. (To be [...]

The Solo Kart here, a chassis designed in New Jersey and built in Italy, has a 125-cc Rotax Max engine, a liquid-cooled two-stroke single-cylinder that puts out about 30 hp and has one gear. THE GRID KART RACING is an outrageously physically demanding activity. Anyone who says a car feels like a go-kart has never driven a go-kart. [Extracted from the article]

G. The final sector's fast left-hander is where Auberlen just has trust in the car, but the final corners see a similar data trace. When I pitted in from my first run, Auberlen came to the car. The point was driven home once Bill Auberlen got in the car and thoroughly embarrassed my lap time. I spent the night watching Bill's laps and looking at his data. [Extracted from the article]

Playing hard-to-get is a Ferrari tradition, and while Chinetti's snub might have sent our man to Manhattan to buy his car, it didn't dim his desire: He's bought and sold a dozen Daytona coupes and five Spiders over 50 years, the latter among just 121 convertibles made. So, everyone that loves to drive old cars today had an early experience of loving to drive old cars." No self-respecting car enthusiast would ever call the recirculating-ball steering of the old car anything but absurdly unsporting. The M2 CS is a wonderful car - easily the best thing BMW builds today, perhaps the best in years. [Extracted from the article]

For our feature story on the Patent-Motorwagen, deputy editor Bob Sorokanich didn't spend his prep day researching driving techniques. No sir. Instead, he went to a costume shop to find [...]

SURFING HAS FASCINATED me for years. I have a subscription to The Surfer's Journal, and I've seen Bruce Brown's surf epic, The Endless Summer, and its 1994 sequel countless times. [...]

I'D BEEN LOOKING for a wagon for months. A late-model BMW 3-series, the E91 chassis, built from 2006 to 2012. Rear-wheel drive, stick shift. Just 429 were sold in the [...]

I DON'T REMEMBER exactly when Formula I became my sole source of weekend-morning entertainment, but I do know Michael Schumacher was my favorite driver. Schumacher was always winning in the [...]

FOR THE LAST 15 years, my Mazda Miata has been a terrible moving van and a wonderful partner on back roads. When the car got scratched, it felt personal. When [...]

Cars are as exciting as ever. You just need to look below the surface. WE ALL LOVE to bemoan the state of modern cars, how they've lost their outrageous spirit. [...]

THE WORST THING THAT could happen, they told me, was taking out some grass. I managed to do worse. After a few laps containing exactly zero crashes at Oakland Valley [...]

This clean-sheet Defender still loves getting dirty, but it knows where the modern SUV earns its keep: on pavement, where the Defender's aluminum monocoque, standard air springs (for the longer 110 model), and winning 395-hp, 3.0-liter inline-six help carve out a unique niche in a saturated SUV market. THE GRID ON A DIABOLICAL OFF-ROAD trail in Maine, the Land Rover Defender takes some hard-earned R&R. Alighting from the driver's seat into what looks like a Civil War battleground - mud, mire, the shattered trees of a wood-chipping operation - I assess the wounded in our group, including the Defender's lopped-off shotgun-side door handle. PHOTO (COLOR): A. Put on a roof tent, and there's no reason to ever leave the Defender. SPECIFICATIONS 2022 Land Rover Defender 110 PRICE: $77,775 (as tested) ENGINE: 3.0-liter turbocharged, electrically supercharged I-6 OUTPUT: 395 hp @ 5500 rpm 406 lb-ft @ 2000 rpm CURB WEIGHT: 5035 lb (mfr) 0-60 MPH: 5.8 seconds (mfr) PHOTO (COLOR): A. Defenders never look quite right without a splash of mud from a quick off-road blast. [Extracted from the article]

"Jerry called and he said, 'Hey, Paul, this is Jerry Wiegert, the founder of Vector Aeromotive'. Years ago, Glessner saw an article insulting Vector, everything about it: the W8, the company, even Wiegert himself. A brief ride with Jasinkiewicz shows why Wiegert's automatic transmission was a good choice: When the turbos kick in, the W8 accelerates ferociously. Vector never made it to the echelons of success, but Wiegert's friends and fans don't think that reflects negatively on the man. "I wouldn't necessarily characterize him as a dreamer", Jasinkiewicz said. [Extracted from the article]

THE WELL THE PORSCHE 911 probably isn't the first car that comes to mind when you think "custom" - not in a world of rumbling Mustangs, jacked pickups and ground-scraping imports. But in the past half century, Stuttgart's backward sports car has become a jumping-off point for personalized performance machines. As Porsche slimmed down the 911 lineup to just the naturally aspirated SC and the Turbo, RUF Automobile GmbH turned them into faster, more powerful machines. The top-speed story introduced RUF Automobile to the world. [Extracted from the article]

THE GRID IN THE SIXTIES, most roadgoing Ferraris prioritized elegance and beauty above all other metrics. Yes, this newest Ferrari sits right near the Portofino M, Ferrari's retractable hardtop entry-level car, in terms of price, with both starting around $220,000. Unlike past entry-level Ferraris, the Roma's manettino drive-mode selector includes every setting you get on the V-12 and mid-engine cars, all the way up to Race mode. [Extracted from the article]

A 3.0-liter flat-six with two snails working together puts out 443 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque, getting it to 60 in 3.0 seconds in our testing with the eight-speed PDK transmission, a truly brilliant gearbox. The Veyron is as much computer as car, incorporating a dual-clutch gearbox, all-wheel drive, and launch control. Cars with straight-sixes and manual gearboxes can look great on paper but let you down behind the wheel. [Extracted from the article]

FEATURES ROAD & TRACK TEST: 2021 MINI JOHN COOPER WORKS GP DW BURNETT IT'S AN ICONIC IMAGE. The JCW uses 18-inch, four-spoke wheels with Hankook tires developed specifically for this car. It's the most powerful engine Mini offers, the only application where this BMW-built 2.0-liter turbo four is connected to the front wheels alone. The weight hits the front of the car so forcefully that the rear lifts, making the car go sideways. [Extracted from the article]

FEATURES THE SUPRA ONLY arrived last year, but Toyota is already tweaking the formula. Originally, the two-seat sports car, which shares its platform and drivetrain with the BMW Z4, offered a single engine: a 3.0-liter turbo straight-six with 335 horsepower and 365 lb-ft of torque. BMW wants the Z4 to be used for grand touring, Toyota thinks the Supra is for sports-car fans who want to hit the track. The fact that BMW and Toyota took the time to team up and build a new sports car, something they know won't be a volume seller, takes guts and faith in enthusiasts. [Extracted from the article]

While most of the car's building blocks were supplied by BMW, Tetsuya Tada, the engineer behind the 86 and, more important, the last Supra, was tasked with tailoring the car to make it feel like its namesake. Those race programs and sports cars are direct representations of Toyota's homeland and the company's ethos. Toyota's partnership with BMW produced two sports cars instead of none. PHOTO (COLOR): Looks like a BMW, works like a BMW, but definitely isn't a BMW. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates the Ford Mustang Performance Package Two luxury car manufactured by Ford Motor Co.

The article evaluates 2017 Aston Martin V12 Vantage S automobile from Aston Martin.

The article evaluates the 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport sports car from automobile manufacturer Porsche AG.

THE LIFE IN 1997, Paul Newman finished second in his class in an IMSA race at Lime Rock Park, just one position ahead of a racer who claimed to be the 40th and final prophet of an extraterrestrial race that created mankind. As cult funds grew, Raël was able to move into high-level sports-car racing, including at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Nobody knows whether Newman read the book or Raël slathered some greens in Newman's Own. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates the Ferrari F12tdf automobile.

GO LEXUS SAYS IT takes 15 seconds to put the top down on the new LC500 Convertible. The only little flaw comes in with the weather: Roof up, the LC looks awkward, the coupe's fastback profile replaced with a small scrap of cloth. This is the rare coupe that's improved by losing its roof, looking more like the car Lexus intended. [Extracted from the article]

Past PCOTY contests have tested cars on the road first, then trekked to a closed course. Under the watchful eyes of our testing staff, every PCOTY contender got a quick warm-up session to set tire pressures, then no more than seven timed laps. While I made every attempt to, as one of our contributors once said, "underserve all the cars equally", most amateur drivers will get faster over the course of a day at a track they had never before seen, learning the pavement's nuances, and I am no exception. [Extracted from the article]

This Jeep, owned by Chris Collard, made the journey. Since its trip north, it returned to South America and eventually landed in San Diego, where Collard found it on Craigslist. In November 1978, six Jeeps set out from Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost part of South America, on a 20,000-mile trek to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. [Extracted from the article]