Car and Driver’s Greatest Pictures of 2025

No matter the place you click on on the Car and Driver web site, or flip to in a Car and Driver journal, you are certain to search out stellar images. Our crew of skilled photographers works tirelessly to seize all the coolest automobiles that we discover every year, touring the globe as we drive every thing from a brand new Ferrari to an expensive electrical Cadillac and even an oddball Subaru mission automotive. We’ve rounded up a few of their finest work from 2025 beneath.

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For the primary time ever, Ferrari’s flagship supercar will pack a V-6 engine. While some purists decried this as sacrilege, the F80’s twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 is not any abnormal six-pot. It makes 888 horsepower by itself and is accompanied by three electrical motors that enhance output to a heady 1184 hp. We obtained our first style of Ferrari’s radical halo automotive on the Misano racetrack earlier than taking to Italy’s slim roads, discovering a wedge-shaped monster that pushes the boundaries of automotive engineering.

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Our annual Lightning Lap competitors attracts the very best new efficiency automobiles to the winding Virginia International Raceway, and this 12 months’s lineup ran the complete gamut, prompting this epic group shot. There was no scarcity of exotica, such because the 1001-hp Lamborghini Revuelto and the McLaren Artura Spider, however there have been additionally reasonably priced toys such because the Mazda MX-5 Miata and the Hyundai Elantra N. High-powered EVs from Porsche and Lucid additionally squared off within the hills of Virginia.

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Car and Driver has a protracted historical past of wacky mission automobiles, so when Subaru provided up a BRZ for us to switch, we let technical editor Austin Irwin unfastened, and he returned with an off-road-oriented BRZ Wilderness. Irwin then took his unorthodox sports activities automotive on a wild journey by a collection of mine shafts exterior Pittsburgh, and he even jumped it with the rooftop tent open, as seen on the prime of this story. We’re unsure Subaru will ever construct a manufacturing BRZ Wilderness, however Irwin proved it is attainable and created among the most unusual photographs ever to grace the pages of Car and Driver journal.

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2025 was a fantastic 12 months for those who love energy. While Ferrari was busy prepping its 1184-hp, multimillion-dollar F80, Chevrolet unleashed the Corvette ZR1, packing a twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V-8 sending 1064 horsepower to the rear axle for a relative discount of $205,000 as examined. We had been blown away by the ZR1’s efficiency, however Chevy is taking issues additional with the hybrid ZR1X, which provides an electrical motor to the entrance axle for all-wheel drive and 1250 horsepower.

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It’s turn out to be more durable and more durable to face out in an more and more crowded hypercar market, however the Czinger 21C does this trick. We hopped behind the wheel of this American rocket ship, which has a 1250-hp hybrid V-8 powertrain, sinuous 3-D-printed suspension components, and fighter-jet-style tandem seating.

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And now for one thing fully totally different. The Slate Truck debuted this 12 months as a respite from luxurious, highly effective EVs, as a substitute promising simplicity and affordability. Due out in late 2026, it faces an uphill battle as demand for EVs slows within the face of adjusting rules, however the tiny truck stays one of the crucial intriguing tales within the automotive world over the previous 12 months.

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Back to mad-hat supercars. Before the Revuelto took on VIR, we examined Lamborghini’s latest prime canine, with the Italian torpedo blasting to 60 mph in simply 2.2 seconds and crossing the quarter-mile in simply 9.7 seconds at 148 mph. The Revuelto additionally simply seems the half, with its engine bay glowing a sinister crimson.

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The Cadillac Celestiq makes an attempt to recapture the glory that when allowed the model to proclaim itself the “Standard of the World,” with a concentrate on opulence and bespoke customization. We explored Detroit on this 217.2-inch-long behemoth to see if the Celestiq has elevated the model to its former standing, resulting in this gorgeous shot in entrance of the monolithic Cadillac Place constructing.

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Hyundai up to date the Ioniq 5, a Car and Driver EV of the Year and 10Best winner, for 2025 with revised styling and greater batteries, together with a brand new off-road-oriented XRT mannequin. While this is not essentially the most hardcore off-roader, the XRT acquitted itself nicely sufficient, as evidenced by this playful splash shot.

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The arrival of the brand new, hybrid BMW M5 led us to pit it in opposition to one in all our favourite efficiency sedans, the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, and the well-respected Audi RS7. Each of those four-door sports activities automobiles pumps out over 600 horsepower whereas carrying 5 passengers in consolation, however just one got here out on prime on this comparability check.

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Car and Driver celebrated its seventieth anniversary this 12 months, and we rounded up each era of the enduring Chevrolet Corvette for the journal cowl to commemorate this milestone.

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The seventieth anniversary concern additionally included one in all our zanier comparability assessments, by which a 2025 Jeep Wrangler took on a 1968 Pontiac GTO to judge testing director Dave VanderWerp’s long-held principle that the worst-handling trendy automobile remains to be higher than the enduring muscle automotive.

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Many have tried to problem the Porsche 911, and few have succeeded. Ford set its eye on beating the final word 911, the track-honed GT3 RS, when it created the carbon-fiber-skinned, 815-hp, $327,960 Mustang GTD. We wrangled the 2 race-cars-for-the-road for a head-to-head matchup, and a brawl ensued.

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It’s tough for a automobile to earn a spot on the coveted 10Best listing. Not solely does it should beat out the opposite recent metallic below the $115,000 cutoff, however it additionally has to dethrone final 12 months’s winner. We simply printed the 2026 10Best Cars and 2026 10Best Trucks and SUVs lists, and we highlighted our favourite automobiles alongside a few of our most well-liked spots for a road-trip fast-food pit cease.

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We additionally preserve a fleet of long-term automobiles that we maintain on to for 40,000 miles, permitting us to discover the intricacies of dwelling with these automobiles every day. We use these automobiles to run errands, commute to the workplace, and for holidays close to and much, permitting us to judge the possession expertise and reliability of recent automobiles like this BMW i4.

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While we spend most of our time overlaying new automobiles, the Car and Driver crew loves the classics too. This 12 months, we obtained to take a look at an immaculate 1980 Datsun 280ZX that had us drooling over its clear sheetmetal and superbly preserved inside.

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Supercars are nice topics for creating eye-catching photographs, however we additionally check and evaluation loads of regular automobiles too. This 12 months, we rounded up the primary gamers within the subcompact SUV section, which continues to develop in reputation. These SUVs supply first rate house and stylish seems in reasonably priced packages, however there was just one winner on this extremely aggressive comparability check.

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Caleb Miller started running a blog about automobiles at 13 years outdated, and he realized his dream of writing for a automotive journal after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University and becoming a member of the Car and Driver crew. He loves quirky and obscure autos, aiming to someday personal one thing weird like a Nissan S-Cargo, and is an avid motorsports fan.