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The joyful noise of the commentariat,

rebutted sporadically by Ed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

APRIL 2020

10BEST REACTIONS

The “10Best for 2020”

feature highlights only

five cars [January 2020].

Another sign of deep-state

influence or the coming

apocalypse? Not sure

which. You choose.

—Patrick Ramsey

Northville, MI

I loved this year’s 5Best list!

—Vito Antuofermo

Staten Island, NY

I was intrigued by the

changes to 10Best this

year. I understand why you

did it. I just want to know

more about allowed price

point and whether or not

it has to be five cars and

five SUVs and trucks. I’d

rather you be mostly Car

and Driver. Keep up your

good work and irreverence.

—Jay Hancock

Greenwood, SC

We had a base-price cap

of $90,000. And there’s

nothing that says it has to

be five and five; the ratio

may change in favor of

cars in the future—Ed.

(Everyone’s “I am out-

raged that the Mazda MX-

Miata is not on the 10Best

list!” letters go here.)

—C. Benjamin Whalen

Issaquah, WA

I was really disappointed—not

just because my ND MX-

was left off the list to make

way for that oversized pig,

the Ram 1500, but because

I missed reading about

more great cars. Puh-leeze

bring back 10Best cars!

—Steve Geahry

Alameda, CA

You neglected to list one

loser: your magazine. With

your recent personnel and

format changes, I can only

think the intent is to put the

print edition out of its misery.

UPFRONT
13. Broken Dreams
Self-driving cars crash
into reality.
16. The Original
Formula Drift
Sprint cars: crude
yet purposeful.
18. Grin and Bear It
The DMV has your data
and a license to sell it.
20. Escape from
Injustice!
Ex-Nissan boss Carlos
Ghosn needs your help.
22. Walk This Way
U.S. streets go car-free.

COLUMNISTS
24. Daniel Pund
Stinking Horkbug.
26. Ezra Dyer
Electric youth.

THE RUNDOWN
71. 2021 Porsche 718
Cayman GTS 4. 0
Poetry in motion.
73. 2020 Porsche
Macan GTS
Asymmetric warfare.
74. 2020 Mini
Cooper SE
Get shorty.
76. 2020 BMW 2-Series
Gran Coupe
Monkey CLA, monkey 2.
77. All the Pretty
Porsches
Closing out the 991.2.
78. 2020 Polaris
Slingshot
Enigma machine.
78. 2020 Ski-Doo
Summit 850 Turbo
Turbolicious.
80. 2021 Jaguar F-Type
Domesticated.

ETC.
5. Backfires
Guess you still like cars.
84. Lesser-Known
Greats
Montezuma Valley Road.

Get in my VAn

No, no, no! You messed up one of your best tradi-

tions! Add me to the list of whiners protesting your

right to change what you created. You could’ve

dropped 10Best Trucks and SUVs with less protest

if it was all adding up to too much work.

—Ray Ben, California, MO

We’ve messed with the formula before. Perhaps

you recall when we awarded the Dodge Caravan/

Plymouth Voyager minivans three 10Best titles

and that the Toyota Previa won in 1991—Ed.