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How We Test Cars

Every year MotorTrend runs instrumented tests on hundreds of new cars, SUVs, and trucks to support our unbiased, expert reviews. Here’s how we do it. MotorTrend has been a trusted source for objective ...
Our team of experts created Car and Driver’s Comparison Tool to inform and simplify your car-buying research. Compare features, specs, prices, and performance between different trim levels on any ...
From the September/October issue of Car and Driver. There was great lamentation in the office when we discovered that the World's Largest Horseshoe Crab was no more. "Crabbie" had been dismantled and ...
If you’re shopping for a new car, chances are you’re considering one or more of the seven compact SUVs in this comparison test; taken together, roughly 1 in 10 new vehicles sold in 2024 was one of ...
What is it about car people and fast, sporty wagons? Well, they generally feel like secrets only you and your car-nerd friends know about. Plus, they’re fast. And sporty. And carry more stuff than a ...
The staff at CR’s 327-acre Auto Test Center studies the automotive market, identifying the new models and trim levels that are most relevant to car buyers in the U.S. We then spend more than $2.2 ...
If there’s any vehicle class where shoppers are spoiled for choices, it’s the compact SUV segment. We recently tested some of the most popular and interesting 2025 models in order to determine which ...
It’s no secret that today’s cars are designed with far more safety in mind than the ones our parents grew up with, but the difference becomes striking when the two are go head-to-head. German testing ...
MotorTrend has been a trusted source for objective test data on new cars since October 1949 when we published our first 0–60-mph times in the second issue of the magazine. Ever since then, we’ve built ...