From the March/April 2025 issue of Car and Driver. For one week each year, we descend on a piece of hilly automotive heaven in southern Virginia to see how quickly a selection of cars can lap a ...

Car seat expert and mother Michelle Pratt, who founded Safe in the Seat, said no matter how tempting it is to check that lap child box, families should get everyone a ticket. “Your baby could ...

And since the life expectancy of a V-8-powered new car with three pedals might not be much longer than the 2:47.9 lap it turned at this year's event, the CT5-V Blackwing is at the top of my wish list.

Denny Hamlin thought he was in the right spot on the last lap of Sunday’s Daytona 500. Cole Custer saw an opportunity. William Byron collected the checkered flag. Byron went from seventh to first on ...

Fox News' Lisa Boothe and Rachel Campos-Duffy talk Sheryl Crow giving up her Tesla in protest of Elon Musk, Disney changing content warnings in its latest DEI shift and a new trend of women looking ...

The 18th edition of Car and Driver's annual Lightning Lap—an event designed to distill a car's performance at VIR's challenging 4.1-mile Grand Course—featured 13 production cars and a wide spectrum of ...

Leclerc first drove the car, completing about 30 laps. Reportedly, Leclerc's lap times were 0.8 seconds faster than Hamilton's. Of course, it's likely the drivers had different test strategies to ...

Matthew Skwarczek Cadillac's supersedan is a living legend. And since the life expectancy of a V-8-powered new car with three pedals might not be much longer than the 2:47.9 lap it turned at this year ...

Denny Hamlin thought he was in the right spot on the last lap of Sunday’s Daytona 500 ... on the backstretch when he slipped by crashing cars to win the Daytona 500 for the second year in ...

The Lucid Air Sapphire was the fastest car at Car and Driver’s annual Lightning Lap competition. Porsche’s range-topping Taycan Turbo GT sedan was 1.6 seconds slower than the Lucid.

Professional drivers were able to hustle the model around four of America’s premier circuits to set new lap records among production cars. Chevy’s development team dispatched the ZR1 to the ...

But trying to get to the front of the pack led to a wreck at the front, where Denny Hamlin's No. 11 car was leading with one lap to go as Cole Custer and Chase Briscoe were trying to move ahead of ...