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About Us
Welcome to Car and Driver. We've created this page to introduce ourselves to you and to let you know what it is we do around here. Car and Driver is a print and digital magazine covering the newest car offerings, showcasing car culture, and helping people shopping for a car by serving up our unique brand of intelligence, independence, and irreverence. We've been in the magazine business since 1955 and online for more than two decades.
Making the complicated easier to understand for those of you shopping for a new car and putting this information into context with objective data and pulls no punches; on our best days, we hope we even give you a good laugh. We pull together multi-car comparison tests that separate the good, the bad, and the ugly to give you the product knowledge that you crave. Our online ranking system breaks down vehicle segments to help shoppers make informed decisions. In addition to sharp and unbiased reviews, our features and columns allow our readers to ride shotgun with the world's finest automotive writers. Like vinyl records, the print version of Car and Driver is our premium offering, and never goes out of style. In each issue, you'll get the very best from our writers, photographers, and graphic artists in a format you can hold in your hands. It's also the only place to get our legendary Backfires column, where you can read the best (and worst) letters to the editor and Ed.'s responses. Do what legions of discerning readers have been doing since 1955 and subscribe to Car and Driver.
We're also in the business of testing cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans. That's what separates us from other automotive media. For more than 60 years we've been answering the objective questions—How fast? How quick? How much grip?—and our findings have counted countless shopping bets. With the goal of covering every make and model on the market, we test upward of 400 vehicles per year. In the early days of the magazine, just as the interstate highway system began to connect the country, we used stopwatches to measure acceleration times. Today, we use highly precise GPS-based testing equipment. Testing is continually evolving as technology and vehicles change. Recently we've added several static tests to measure cargo space, interior stowage pockets, infotainment response time, and the size of blind spots, among other things. In all, we collect more than 200 data points on every test vehicle. You can learn more about our tests and procedures here.
Making the complicated easier to understand for those of you shopping for a new car and putting this information into context with objective data and pulls no punches; on our best days, we hope we even give you a good laugh. We pull together multi-car comparison tests that separate the good, the bad, and the ugly to give you the product knowledge that you crave. Our online ranking system breaks down vehicle segments to help shoppers make informed decisions. In addition to sharp and unbiased reviews, our features and columns allow our readers to ride shotgun with the world's finest automotive writers. Like vinyl records, the print version of Car and Driver is our premium offering, and never goes out of style. In each issue, you'll get the very best from our writers, photographers, and graphic artists in a format you can hold in your hands. It's also the only place to get our legendary Backfires column, where you can read the best (and worst) letters to the editor and Ed.'s responses. Do what legions of discerning readers have been doing since 1955 and subscribe to Car and Driver.
We're also in the business of testing cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans. That's what separates us from other automotive media. For more than 60 years we've been answering the objective questions—How fast? How quick? How much grip?—and our findings have counted countless shopping bets. With the goal of covering every make and model on the market, we test upward of 400 vehicles per year. In the early days of the magazine, just as the interstate highway system began to connect the country, we used stopwatches to measure acceleration times. Today, we use highly precise GPS-based testing equipment. Testing is continually evolving as technology and vehicles change. Recently we've added several static tests to measure cargo space, interior stowage pockets, infotainment response time, and the size of blind spots, among other things. In all, we collect more than 200 data points on every test vehicle. You can learn more about our tests and procedures here.
