From the September 2016 issue 1) What’s Up? Calling this our “new cars issue” is a little redundant. Every month, Car and Driver is a new cars issue. We rarely write about anything else. We exist to celebrate the best, to expose the worst, and to keep our readers apprised of where the car market stands. The auto industry is regularly assailed for being an elephantine lump that stubbornly resists the changes the world demands of it. But to cast it as such is to greatly underestimate what this enormous establishment is and does. Tech companies make gadgets. Clothiers define fashion. Home-security providers peddle protection. The automotive industry does all that. It’s a vast and necessary interweaving of physics, aesthetics, engineering, chemistry, computer programming, and psychology, plus economics, a touch of black magic, and a dose of good luck. Sure, the product cycles are longer than in, say, the smartphone business. Apple may introduce a new iPhone every couple of years, but a carmaker must package its prodigious tech as unobtrusively as possible into a sturdy, safe shell that can hurtle down the highway at 100 mph, propelled by an engine governed by strict emissions regulations and producing ever more… Read full this story
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