Hyundai Creta Debuts in India. We Don’t Want It.
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Aaron Robinson: Roll the Crash Reel, Boys—How I Got (and Nearly Lost) My Job at Car and Driver
– People often ask me how I got this job. The short answer: I knew where then–editor-in-chief Csaba Csere lived. I rode by his house one day on my bicycle, not coincidentally while he had a stack of résumés on his desk for an open position. I don’t remember much except swearing that, if hired, I would always represent the magazine with utmost professionalism. About two months later, I played
2017 Audi A4 Unveiled: Evolutionary, Retro, and Futuristic All at Once
– Yes, the all-new Audi A4 is clearly an Audi. The new model, the ninth iteration of a vehicle line that has also been known as the Audi 80, Audi Fox, and Audi 4000, has moved to the VW Group’s modular-longitudinal MLB Evo architecture, but it still closely resembles the outgoing model—at least at first glance. READ MORE ›› –
2017 Audi A4: Less Weight, More Elegant Interior – Official Photos and Info
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The Continental: Killing Manuals, Dumb Exhaust Pipes, and Euro Electrics
– 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. – – German carmakers appear to still be on a crusade to get everyone to forget manual transmissions. Just the latest example? Audi’s claim that at the end of the first-generation
2015 Tesla Model S P85D Long-Term Intro: We Embark on Our First-Ever 40,000-Mile Test of an EV
– It’s too early to know whether Tesla will amount to an entire chapter or a mere footnote in the annals of automotive history, but the company’s Model S will leave a record here at Car and Driver: We’ve embarked on our first full-length long-term test of a battery-electric car. (We previously conducted a four-month test of a 2011 Nissan Leaf.) Over the coming months, a 2015 Tesla Model S
McLaren Making More Money, Planning More Megacars
– Financial results press conferences rarely set pulses racing, even when the company concerned produces cars as exciting as McLaren’s. So while we can tell you that McLaren turned more than £495.5 million [$780 million] last year and made a pretax profit of £15m [$23.6 million], and also invests an impressive 20 percent of its revenue back into research and development, we were more stimulated by a chance to talk to
2015 Tesla Model S P85D – Long-Term Road Test Intro
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Forget the Hellcat, Take This 730-hp Charger to Track Day—for 1/3 the Price
-Let’s face it; fast cars are expensive. Even a car with one of the best horsepower-per-dollar ratios out there, the Dodge Charger Hellcat, will run you north of $60 grand. So when a “Dodge Charger” pops up on eBay, one that makes more power than a Hellcat for one-third the monies, we’re going to take notice. – What we’ve got here is a fourth-generation stock car built by Cunningham Motorsports
Forget the Hellcat, Take This 730-hp Charger to Track Day—for 1/3 the Price
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