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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1 THE MOST CONCEITED NUMBER AND THE CHANGING SIGNIFICANCE OF F1 CAR NUMERALS.

100 • THE FIVE-SCORE PAGES BETWEEN THE COVERS OF THIS MAGAZINE SPOTLIGHT NUMBERS, BUT THEY AREN’T THE WHOLE STORY.

EIGHT FOUR NINE • THE SUCCESSOR TO THE SF90 MAKES A COMPELLING CASE AS THE MOST DESIRABLE NEW FERRARI.

9.3 • WEIGHT-TO-POWER RATIO IS THE CAR WORLD’S MOST TELLING NUMBER. IT SAYS LESS WITH EACH PASSING YEAR.

*44.2 • Testing a single Mustang’s horsepower across multiple dynamometers explains why context matters.

01000011 00111000 • MEET THE MAN WHO HACKED THE C8 CORVETTE’S ENGINE COMPUTER AND OPENED NEW FRONTIERS FOR AFTERMARKET TUNING.

5 • AUDI’S ODD-CYLINDER INLINE-FIVE HAS POWERED FASTER RACE AND ROAD CARS FOR 50 YEARS.

1 2 3 • FOR ALL ITS HUMAN DRAMA, AUTO RACING IS REALLY ABOUT NUMBERS. NOTHING IS MORE EMBLEMATIC OF THIS THAN CAR NUMBERS, WHICH HAVE GONE FROM SIMPLE IDENTIFIERS TO ABSOLUTE TOTEMS.

13,000 • WHY THE HUMMER EV’S RIDICULOUS TORQUE FIGURE AND OTHER NUMBERS AUTOMAKERS TOUT ARE TECHNICALLY TRUE—AND STILL MISLEADING.

LOW VOLUME, HIGH PROFICIENCY: A TRIO OF SHOPS WHERE UNIQUE EXPERTISE APPLIES TO SMALL QUANTITIES.

266 • THE JAGUAR XJ220S THAT DON AND JUSTIN LAW HAVE WORKED ON OR SOLD PARTS FOR. THAT’S ALL OF THEM.

138 • HOW MANY DUESENBERG MODEL J CARS HAVE BEEN TO STRAIGHT EIGHT, A DETROIT-AREA SHOP LIKE NO OTHER.

200 • THE BALLPARK NUMBER OF PORSCHE’S LEGENDARY FOUR-CAMS THAT JEFF ADAMS HAS REBUILT.

1440 • A. LANGE & SÖHNE’S ZEITWERK SHOWS HOURS AND MINUTES WITHOUT A DIAL.

2.0 • PORSCHE HARNESSES VAST COMPLEXITY TO MAKE THE EXTRAORDINARY EASY.

2026 Porsche 911 Turbo S

0–60 • THIS HEFTY FIFTH WHEEL LED TO THE INVENTION OF MODERN ELECTRONIC TESTING.

FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE MILLION • THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS (A RECORD!) TALLIED AT THE MECUM AUCTION IN KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA, IN JANUARY. HEREWITH, A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK WHERE THE TV CAMERAS WON’T TAKE YOU.

THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE