Car and Driver - March 2010 PDF
Name Digital Magazine: Car and Driver
Year: 2010
Issue: March
Country: US
Language: English
Format magazine: PDF
Pages: 116 pages
Size: 17.7 Mb
About 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.
Content issue Car and Driver - March 2010 PDF:
37 comparison test 58 Stimulus Packages BMW 750i, Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S, Porsche Panamera S. By K.c. colwell specialty file 70 Blast Off! Jason Heffner makes the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 an even faster rocket. By michael austin toys 74 Cash, Love, and Tiny Cars Inside the obsessive-compulsive world of Hot Wheels collectors. By brett berK sport 80 NASCAR Pans for Foreign Gold If Marcos Ambrose is any indication, NASCAR’s good ol’ boys may get more imported competition. By steven cole smith long-term test 86 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI At last, a VW diesel proves it can be a big player on Main-Street America. By tony Quiroga special section Best of the U.S. Who says the domestic car is dead? Not us. Here’s our A-list of vehicles that do the auto industry proud. 38 2011 Cadillac CTS/-V Coupe 42 2011 Ford Mustang 45 2012 Ford Focus 47 2011 Buick Regal 49 Oshkosh M-ATV columns 9 Eddie Alterman Behold the new Lexus WTF. 20 John Phillips For Mark Donohue, 1100 hp was ‘far from too much.’ 24 David E. Davis Jr. The Texas 1000: Seeing the Hill Country from a Porsche Panamera. upfront 27 Batteries Included Do short-haul, $200,000 electric supercars make any sense? 31 Nürburgring Secrets 10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the real German Disneyland. 32 Te Biggest Loser A four-cylinder Audi sheds 500 pounds and smokes the V-6. tech dept. 34 Runaway Toyotas Dealing with unintended acceleration. how to: 35 Adjust Your Mirrors to Avoid Blind Spots Less obvious than it sounds. drivelines preview 92 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost Scary good. As it should be, for the price. by eddie alterman preview 94 2011 Porsche Cayenne Turning a nose tackle into a linebacker. by Juergen zoellter Short take 96 BMW 550i GT Think of it as the fastest living room you’ll ever drive. by tony Swan Short take 97 Bentley Continental Supersports There’s a reason the seats feel like they came out of Apollo 11. by a aron robinSon Short take 98 Toyota 4Runner Trail Still the backward-looking, body-on-frame adventurer. by a aron robinSon Short take 99 Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid The cheapest of the high-luxe greenies and, oh, that La-Z-Boy feel. by dave vanderwerp p.92 auto ShowS Chicago We head to the show February 10; preview coverage is posted now. CARandDRIVER.com/Chicago long-term teSt 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart Sportback Kicking off 40,000 miles with an Evo Lite hatchback. CARandDRIVER.com/Ralliart wagon overload 2010 Audi A4 Avant Tested Putting the entry-level Audi carryall through its paces. CARandDRIVER.com/A4Avant 2010 Audi RS 6 Avant Driven Taking a crack at the 580-hp, twin-turbo V-10 gonzo wagon. CARandDRIVER.com/RS6Avant teSted 2010 Land Rover Range Rover HSE Answer the call of the wild or head to the mall with your child. CARandDRIVER.com/RangeRover 2009 Ford Fusion Sport Power and all-wheel drive do not a sporty car make. CARandDRIVER.com/FusionSport etc. 16 Backfires A $495 orange, J.Lo’s Porsche is here, good clunker/bad clunker. 100 Gearbox Ratcheting wrenches. 102 Gearbox DIY Run your diesel on vegetable oil. 112 What I’d Do Differently Ron Dennis.
