2010 Hennessey HPE700 C...

Hennessey’s hell-raisin’ Camaro is at once civilized and sinister. Of course, most of what we cover here at Car and Driver involves OEM vehicles rather than aftermarket specials. But we can always find room for stuff like the wicked wheels that roll out of Hennessey Performance...

2010 Honda Element EX D...

Honda’s box goes to the dogs with a new accessory package. What Is It? The Honda Element , a dream car for fans of cubism, with Honda’s new Dog Friendly accessory package . The Dog Friendly setup comes with a tent-like kennel with pet bed that fits in the cargo compartment, a ramp...

2010 Chevrolet Corvette...

Double-Double Animal Style: Whichever way you stack these patties, the 638-hp Chevy Corvette and the new 500-hp Porsche 911 Turbo are wild machines. Ever since the 911 hit U.S. showrooms in 1965, the Chevrolet Corvette and Porsche’s most iconic car have been facing off on racetracks...

2011 Mercedes-Benz E-cl...

An old-fashioned Mercedes convertible is no bad thing. At the launch of the new 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-class convertible , the German carmaker brought along some classics from its past. We were thus reminded that golden oldies such as the 1971 280SE 3.5 were great four-place convertibles...

Mazda’s Efficiency St...

The zoom-zoom people are adding efficiency tech, and we’ll see most—if not all—of it in the U.S. We had a chance at the 2010 Geneva auto show to chat with Robert Davis, Mazda North America’s senior VP of quality and R&D, about the company’s strategy for meeting...

2011 Audi R8 5.2 V10 FS...

Audi opens the R8 to the sky and sacrifices little in doing so. It’s well-documented that chopping the roof off of a car usually includes a list of sacrifices made in exchange for open-sky motoring. This is not the case with the 2011 Audi R8 5.2 FSI Quattro Spyder . The biggest...

2010 Toyota RAV4 Face-L...

Toyota’s mini-ute gets visual changes across the pond. European customers will see some revisions and upgrades to the 2010 Toyota RAV4 , set to go on sale there this spring. The changes are essentially visual: new front-end styling as well as leather-and-Alcantara seating. Keep...

2010 Fiat 500C Abarth �...

The angry 500 drops its little top. The cute Fiat 500 is slated to go on sale in the U.S.—it’s one of the cars with the genuine potential to create positive buzz for the curious liaison between Auburn Hills and Torino. We like this 1:0.7-scale version of the original 500; it’s...

2009 Infiniti FX50S: Al...

Infiniti, like almost every other carmaker, uses an array of acronyms for short-hand reference to its many safety and driver-assistance systems. And our long-term Infiniti FX50S employs nearly all of them: LDW (lane-departure warning), LDP (lane-departure prevention), IBA (intelligent...

Tata Nano EV Concept �...

The thrifty Indian subcompact gets an electric makeover. Tata showed a couple of significant new products in Geneva : the Aria seven-seater crossover and the Nano Electric Vehicle (EV) concept. We were particularly intrigued by the latter, which is a full-electric version of the clever...