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From the Archive: Combining the virtues of the 325is with the added security and performance of full-time all-wheel drive, the 325iX is the BMW for all seasons.
Tested: 1993 Ford F-150 Lightning vs. Chevrolet 454SS From the Archive: Burning rubber in two new-age muscle trucks that flex very different takes on performance. From the July 1993 issue of Car and Driver. The photograph above tells you most everything you need to know about these two trucks. They're bad boys. Tire-smoking brutes. Terminator trucks. The paint jobs are lust red. From any angle, they're good-looking and muscular—and if it were possible, they'd be wearing jeans. They're looking for trouble. These are the New Muscle Cars of Middle America, the horse flesh for the neo-cowboy...
The Murciélago has been in Lamborghini's 16 United States dealerships since December 2001. Since then, 200 have been sold. When a dealer places an order, the car is air-freighted from Italy in a sealed container and can be disrupting American schoolchildren in as few as 10 days. There are two options only: pearlescent paint ($2500) and a nav system ($3500). Lamborghinis are famous for being as fragile as spring ice, so it was of some concern that our test car showed 15,500 miles—as much mule as bull. "It's survived 35 road tests," asserted Lamborghini tech adviser Ken McCay, who is not Ita...
Tested: 2006 Honda Ridgeline vs. the Compact Pickup Competition From the Archive: Can the unconventional new Honda Ridgeline hang with the 2005 Chevy Colorado, Dodge Dakota, Nissan Frontier, and Toyota Tacoma? From the June 2005 issue of Car and Driver. Entries in the guest book at Barker Ranch, an old vacant stone house high atop Death Valley National Park—the last hiding place of Charles Manson and his zombies—run the gamut, from weird to creepy. Pick the Pickup That's Right For Your, New or Used Now, what in the helter-skelter do Manson and his tawdry band of zoned-out sociopaths ha...
Tested: 1983 Porsche DP 935 Fulfills Porsche Fantasies Csaba Csere © Aaron Kiley - Car and Driver From the Archive: The DP 935 may be based on a workaday Porsche 930, but it channels Zuffenhausen's 935 racers to stunning effect. From the May 1983 issue of Car and Driver. What's your most outrageous automotive fantasy? Being strapped into the beak of a Porsche 917 as it screams along the Mulsanne straight, clawing for speed without end? Being the center of automotive attention, experiencing vicarious adulation in a machine that inspires universal respect? Perhaps you're turn...