Road & Track

Road & Track includes technical features on automotive subjects, wide-ranging feature stories, spectacular automotive art and standard-setting new-car photography, humor, fiction, travel stories, book reviews and the most comprehensive racing coverage offered by a monthly magazine.Bonus: iPad Interactive

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RODDER’S JOURNAL • YOUR EYEBALLS AND THE CASE AGAINST COLOR.

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING • BLACK-AND-WHITE RESTRICTS THE PALETTE AND UNLOCKS THE IMAGINATION.

DINOSAUR JR. • AN ELECTRIC-POWERED, 85 PERCENT–SCALE MODEL OF A VINTAGE BENTLEY IS NEARLY AS PECULIAR AND ENTERTAINING AS DRIVING THE ORIGINAL TODAY.

LUCK OF THE DRAW • TONY MATTHEWS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ACCOMPLISHED CUTAWAY ARTISTS, ON HIS EARLY BLACK-AND-WHITE WORK.

EYES WITHOUT A FACE • THE FERRARI 12 CILINDRI IS A RETROFUTURIST ROBOT WEARING A DAYTONA MASK.

OFF THE CHAIN • VORTIC PULLS ANTIQUE AMERICAN POCKET WATCHES OUT OF THE PAST AND ONTO YOUR WRIST.

GUNMA STYLE • HOW A SERIAL MANGA TURNED A TOYOTA COROLLA INTO JAPAN’S MOST FAMOUS AUTOMOTIVE POP-CULTURE EXPORT.

WHITE LINES • NO CAR IS MORE EMBLEMATIC OF THE SNOW-BLIND EIGHTIES THAN A WHITE-ON-WHITE COUNTACH.

PAINT IT BLACK • THE ULTIMATE AUTOMOTIVE FINISH IS ALSO THE HARDEST TO MAKE PERFECT.

AERO SMITH • CHAPARRAL’S MOVING-WING PATENT OFFERS A PEEK INTO JIM HALL’S GENIUS.

SPLASH WHOOSH BEEP GALUMPH SCRAPE RUSTLE BEEP • THE 2024 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER MARKS A BIG CHANGE FROM ITS PREDECESSOR. HOW DOES THAT PLAY OUT IN THE REAL WORLD?

BEYOND THE MATTE • KEN BLOCK’S CUSTOM MERCEDES-BENZ KICKED OFF THE MODERN ERA OF MONOCHROME, FLAT-FINISH AUTOMOTIVE STYLE.

FRESH POWDER • Bright-white paint didn’t make it onto factory cars until the early Fifties. Its secrets remain so valuable that corporate spies tried to steal them on behalf of China.

THE GRAYSCALES OF JUSTICE • WHY OUR MENTAL IMAGE OF THE SQUAD CAR IS A BLACK-AND-WHITE.

BUG • SINCE THE HAVE BEEN THE HEART OF BAJA RACING. THIS BEETLE BATTLE SIXTIES, VOLKSWAGENS TAKES THE BAJA 500 TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

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