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Your broker calls with exceptionally good news. And you just happen to have a vacant stall in your four-car garage. Friend, you deserve a new car, something exceptional. But what […]

One look at a '67 Eldorado and you can almost hear the light touch of whisks on brass symbols, a staccato rhythmed t-t-taaa-t-t-aaa that instantly puts you into the high-roller […]

The inexorable pull of Death Valley is a little hard to explain. After all, much of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is surrounded by desert so empty you'd be hard […]

"Have Breakfast With the Bats," the sign read. After just passing a billboard offering to let us "Feed the Live Snakes," how could re resists? Obviously, we were getting close […]

To call Carroll Shelby merely a racing legend would be a disservice to the man who created one of the world's most lusted-after performance cars of all time. Ol' Shel […]

The towering three-story sign loomed up from the flat landscape like a religious monument to the god of pink neon, B-movies, and overpriced bonbon chocolates. Make no mistake: We'd stumbled […]

In stock form, the BMW M3 is one of the world's best performance cars. Available in coupe and sedan body styles, with real backseats and useable trunks, these tangy Bimmers […]

PART PAST, PART FUTURE, ALL JAGUAR Take a tour through the main portion of Jaguar's efficiently modern spit-and-polish assembly plant in Coventry, England, and you'd never guess what lies behind […]

Buy any normal car and you have to dicker over options, extras, and things like floor mats. Buy the new Ferrari 456 GTA and the Italian automaker generously spares you […]

Memories are tough competition, foes with an unfair advantage. We hear from you readers, loudly and vociferously, every time we dare suggest a new performance car is faster than some […]

First, off, know this: We are not prepared to like the new Corvette as much as we do. From all the spy photos and inside info we were able to […]

Throttle to the floor and fourcam V-8 at full song, the nasty black BMW's speedo-meter needle swept past 155 mph as the tach became buried in the red zone. That's […]

If Michelangelo were alive today--instead of having the gall to die in 1564--he'd probably be too old to fully enjoy the new Mercedes-Benz SLK 230. Nevertheless, with his love of […]

Where were you in '96? 1896, that is. We doubt many current Motor Trend readers were around when the automobile first became a smoking, coughing, barely-moving under-its-own-power achievement, so you'll […]

So you've finally made the semi-big time, and at long last, that near-luxury lifestyle is firmly within your grasp. Gone are the days of trolling for econo-cars and scoping out […]

Here's the situation: You need new wheels and your budget's going to hold you to about $20,000. OK so far, but here's where things get complicated. This vehicle is going […]

Where were you 32 years ago? In the service? In grade school? Yet to be conceived? Carroll Shelby was racing. And building cars--Cobras and GT350 Mustangs, to be exact. In […]

Bring together six cars with an average of 500 horsepower apiece, each massaged by one of the country's top tuning houses, out to Fire. bird Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona, and […]

"Beer colder than a mother-in-law's heart," read the hand-scrawled sign over a ratty storefront somewhere in Mississippi. A poignant story in black spray paint, yet the place was scary enough […]

It's tough enough to build a perfect sports car. The essentials include a frame that's both lightweight and superrigid, a racetrack-ready suspension, brakes more tenacious than those on a mile […]

These aren't just cars, they're destinations; it doesn't matter where these cars go, you've already arrived. They're rewards for rising through corporate infighting to become the CEO; just desserts for […]

It's all about structural integrity: Hack the roof off your favorite coupe and the result will probably be a wallowy heap barely able to keep its parts flying in close […]

Power is good, more is better, too much is just right--whether spoken by a corrupt military dictator or the steely-eyed driver of a pur sang performance car, the primordial lust […]

We were less concerned with where we were going, than with where we weren't going. Desolation was the real destination. From Los Angeles, the most accessible slice of nowhere is […]

About 15 seconds after the original Mustang hit the street on April 17, 1964, Carroll Shelby was at work developing its road racing counterpart: the Shelby GT350. With a hairy […]

Like fine wines and great art, some automobiles take a little more time to fully appreciate. The new BMW 740i is one such driving machine. It's not until you're three […]

As charter members of the Heavy Right Foot car club, we bemoan the loss to American shores those great Euro performance sedans of recent yore: the BMW M5 and the […]

The first autobahn overpass carried a banner: REISEN NICHT RASEN (which I interpreted as "reason not racing") it said in meter-tall letters. They must have known I was coming! For […]

Cadillac has been in business since 1903. And on and off for about the past 85 years, that Detroit automaker has unabashedly referred to itself as the "Standard of the […]

Everyone from Humpy Wheeler to Mother Teresa knows about Carroll Shelby. The man who created the Cobras and specially modified Mustangs of the '60s is more than just a car […]

It's as subtle as a 20-megaton bomb in a whoopee cushion. As conventional as Jeffrey Dahmer at a Kiwanis father/son picnic. And about as charming, erudite, and socially responsible as […]

In the old days, it was known as "hot-rodding." The art of modifying factory-spec iron into machinery fast enough to win, tough enough to survive, and brash enough to scare […]

If you think it's cars that make the world go 'round, think again. Year after year, Ford's and Chevrolet's full-size trucks have topped the sales charts. More and more families […]

In 1965, after two decades of unparalleled post-war prosperity, anything and everything seemed possible in the U.S. Build an interstate highway system? Sure. Go to the moon? Why not? Pass […]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That's certainly the case with Motor Trend's Top 10 special section. After a one-year hiatus, it's back again by popular demand. If you're looking […]

ACURA INTEGRA What was originally conceived as an upscale small car with performance undertones has morphed into the sport machine for Generation X-ers. Wearing techno-chic styling and a Hot Wheels […]

WORLD-CLASS ALLURE FROM SPACE-AGE ALUMINUM Shelby draped it across his Cobras; Acura uses it extensively in the NSX; Boeing hammers it into air-frames; Anheuser-Busch fills it with beer; and now […]

Old school vs. new tech: Two lead-footed writers duke it out at redline Think of it as Motor Trend's equivalent of a SIskel and Ebert movie review, but with a […]

What's the quickest accelerating street car we've ever tested? A Cobra 427? Lamborghini Diablo? '70 Hemi 'Cuda? Turn to the back of this issue and scan the current Road Test […]

Ask Nissan about the restyled and revised '95 Maxima, and the auto maker will describe its comfortable ride, impressive quietness, stellar safety features, enhanced reliability, environmental benevolence, engaging personality, shiny […]

Hark, it's summer. A time of culottes, mint juleps, and chain-bedecked, bulging-stomached, mid-life-crisis sufferers wearing bright-red Speedos--ugh. It's also the season of convertible-buying frenzy--that chance to recapture lost youth, flaunt […]

The Monte Carlo's NASCAR racing heritage is so well established that it seems unnecessary to mention it, except that it figures prominently in the introduction of the all-new '95 Monte […]

The first problem is that a Caprice Classic looks like your dad's car. The second problem, Caprice power, is related to the first. Even if you bought a 5.7-liter-equipped LTZ […]

The aftermarket performance biz runs the gamut from chrome exhaust tips to 700-horsepower crate motors, with virtually every bolt-on or screw-in part available in between. In the old days, these […]

There's a horse emblem in its grille, snakes on each front fender, and a blue oval on the decklid. To most of us, it looks like a Mustang, but to […]

Editor's Warning: The story you are about to read contains numerous references to turbocharged horsepower, tire-smoking acceleration, 16-inch wheels, 50-series tires, and four-wheel disc brakes. Do not be afraid. These […]

Look out. It's not safe on the streets. Not even for the big-guns of the boulevard. You may think you're invincible in that new Dodge Viper or Corvette ZR-1, but […]

Today's consumers are spoiled rotten. They want a single vehicle that'll provide the comfort of a luxury car, cargo room of a delivery van, towing capacity of a small pickup […]

William Crapo Durant wouldn't like this comparison. Neither would Henry Martyn Leyland, Alfred P. Sloan, nor any of the other broad-brimmed capitalists who helped create the General Motors megalith in […]

Triple threat. In sports, that would make you a triathlete. In Hollywood, it means having the talent to produce, direct, and act. Let's talk glitter here. A cinematic triple threat […]