Car and Driver Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 10:14am on Friday, January 8th, 2010

January 7, 2010: John Drsicoll, senior VP and chief brand officer for Car and Driver and Road & Track, has resigned from Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., owner of the magazines. He will be joining Just Marketing International of Zionsville, Ind., as VP of partnership development of its motor sports agency.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 9:27pm on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Car and Driver Announces '10 Best' Cars for 2010

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, December 2, 2009 -- Car and Driver magazine this week announced its 28th annual list of 10 best cars sold in America. With only two of the ten cars included on this year's list manufactured by US car companies, evidence continues to mount that American manufacturers still have a ways to go to catch up with many of the imports.

A positive sign of the times for an US car manufacturer is the fact the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid made the list as only the second hybrid ever to be included. The Toyota Prius made the list in 2004.

Following are the 2010 Car and Driver 10Best winners (in alphabetical order), followed by the number of times each model has made the list:

-- 2010 Audi S4 (2)
-- 2010 BMW 3-series / M3 (19)
-- 2010 Cadillac CTS / CTS-V (2)
-- 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid (1)
-- 2010 Honda Accord (24)
-- 2010 Honda Fit (3)
-- 2010 Mazda MX-5 Miata (11)
-- 2010 Mazda 3 / Mazdaspeed 3 (3)
-- 2010 Porsche Boxster / Cayman (3)
-- 2010 Volkswagen GTI (7)


The list is not in a ranked order. A panel of 18 Car and Driver editors determined the winners by rating them on a scale of 1-100 with a focus on functional performance, driving satisfaction and value. Vehicles considered for the award must be available in the United States by January 2009 and priced below the cap of $80,000, or 2.5 times the average transaction price as of summer 2009.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:32pm on Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Car and Driver magazine conducted a test that demonstrates texting while behind the wheel can be even more dangerous than impaired driving.

Text messaging is on the rise, and undoubtedly, some "texters" or "tweeters" are sending and receiving messages while driving. In December 2008, more than 110 billion messages were being sent each month, up from less than 10 billion just three years ago. To gauge the effect of these road messagers, Car and Driver magazine conducted a road test to determine just how dangerous texting and driving can be. The results were eye-opening.

Previous academic studies have shown texting while driving using simulators impairs a driver's abilities.

The focus of the test was solely on the driver's reaction time. All of the driving was done in a straight line on an 11,800-foot runway. Given the prevalence of the BlackBerry, the iPhone, and other text-friendly mobile phones, the test subjects would have devices with full QWERTY keypads and would be familiar with text messaging. A web intern 22, armed with an iPhone, would represent the younger crowd. The older demographic would be covered by Editor-in-Chief, Eddie Alterman, 37.

After conducting the texting tests on both drivers at 35 mph and 70 mph, the test subjects then drank alcoholic cocktails until they reached the legal driving limit of 0.08 percent blood-alcohol content. They then went back behind the wheel and ran the identical test without any texting distractions.

The results showed even using a straight road without any traffic, road signals, or pedestrians, and looking just at reaction times, the texting results were even worse than the negative impaired driving results.

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 7:04pm on Thursday, February 26th, 2009

February 26, 2009: Car and Driver magazine has named Eddie Alterman vice president and editor in chief. Alterman was previously the editor in chief at Motivemag.com.