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
GOING LONG • TECHNOLOGY IS OFTEN BABY STEPS. LET’S CELEBRATE THE GIANT LEAPS.
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MAGNUM FORCE • HOW TOM SELLECK AND THE HUMBLE 308 RESCUED FERRARI FROM OBLIVION.
ARE E-FUELS FOR REAL? • YOU’RE RIGHT TO BE SKEPTICAL.
THE REAL VALUE OF 3D PRINTING.
THE ‘SENNA’ EFFECT • THIS SLEEPER DOCUMENTARY IS THE POWDER KEG OF F1’S U.S. RENAISSANCE.
DJET ENGINE • THE MATRA DJET IS THE ORIGINAL MID-ENGINE MARVEL.
THE TRACK CLUB FOUNDERS
THE RIGHT DIRECTION • WHY THE GPS REVOLUTION IS TWO STEPS FORWARD AND ONE STEP BACK.
IL GRAN TORINO • OVER THE COURSE OF MORE THAN A DECADE, PHOTOGRAPHER PIOTR DEGLER CAPTURED SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, WEIRDEST, AND MOST SIGNIFICANT CARS TO COME FROM HIS BELOVED ITALY. THE RESULTING COFFEE-TABLE BOOK, ‘MADE IN ITALY,’ IS A GORGEOUS MONUMENT TO ITALIAN AUTOMOTIVE PASSION AND THE MASTER DESIGNERS WHO SPURRED IT ON.
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE • GM’S HYDRA-MATIC IS REVOLUTIONARY, CONFOUNDINGLY COMPLICATED, AND RUGGED ENOUGH FOR WAR.
WATCH THE THRONE • BREGUET’S GRANDE COMPLICATION IS THE KING OF TIMEPIECES.
THE LOTUS POSITION • NO TEAM TRANSFORMED FORMULA 1 MORE THAN LOTUS.
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THERE’S A SUCKER BORN EVERY GENERATION • THE VACUUM CAR IS THE BREAKTHROUGH THAT JUST KEEPS BREAKING.
ELON MUSK’S BIGGEST COUP AIN’T ROCKETS.
IT’S THE QUIETLY BUILT SUPERCHARGER NETWORK…
THAT TRUMPS ALL COMERS.
Victory At Last! • High-profile drivers on the breakthrough moments that made their careers.
‘It Was like God Had Just Spoken to Me’ • MARIO ANDRETTI, 1963
‘I’m a Driver Who Happens to Be a Woman’ • JANET GUTHRIE, 1977
‘I Went from Chump to Champ’ • DAVY JONES, 1986, 1996
‘Okay, Little Buddy, the Next One Back Is the Winner’ • JAMIE McMURRAY, 2002
‘Oh My God! Oh My God!’ • ALEXANDER ROSSI, 2016
BREAKING THE WIND • With the stunningly low-drag Vision EQXX concept, Mercedes eyes a future in which we slip more effortlessly through the air around us.
A BEAUTIFUL SHAMBLES • When an ECCENTRIC WHEELMAN conspired to win the purse at LA CARRERA PANAMERICANA, he phoned A FLEDGLING ROAD & TRACK for help. The pair moved mountains to get LANCIA’S MASTERPIECE on the grid. Like any grand adventure, the journey became the destination, and the destination A BEAUTIFUL DISASTER. Seventy years on, we search for meaning in THE ONLY CAR THAT SURVIVED IT ALL.
ALREADY BROKEN • A REQUIEM FOR SPEED RECORDS
THE TAMING OF THE SNAIL • THE STORY OF HOW TURBOCHARGERS WENT FROM UNRULY ENGINE WRECKERS TO THE NEAR-UNIVERSAL ACCOUTREMENT FOR MODERN GAS MOTORS.
IT’S A CINDERELLA STORY • FORMULA 1’S ULTIMATE FAIRY-TALE SEASON, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS UNHERALDED CHAMPION.
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DOSSIER: 2022 FORD F - 150 LIGHTNING • FORD’S ELECTRIC PICKUP SHOWS ONE POSSIBLE FUTURE.
Whence It Came
Foundation Stock • The second-gen 2003 Lightning delivers things the new one can’t.
2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum
AIRBORNE WEAPON • THE NEW 911 GT3 RS HARNESSES THE AIR TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE TRACK-BRED PORSCHE.
CRAZY EIGHTS • WANT TO RUN EIGHTS ON YOUR DRIVE TO THE SUPERMARKET? THE RIMAC NEVERA CAN.
SUPERIOR CARRERA • WHILE THE 2022 RUF SCR LOOKS LIKE A VINTAGE 911, IT ISN’T. IT’S BETTER—MUCH BETTER.
THE VALLEY OF THE SUPERCARS