Car and Driver - USA (2020-05)

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The joyful noise of the commentariat,

rebutted sporadically by Ed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MAY 2020

BUCKING BRONCOS

All the pent-up excitement

I had for the Ford Bronco

vanished the instant I saw

your renderings [“Bronco

Is Back,” February 2020].

Is Jeep paying you to kill

the buzz surrounding

the Bronco’s release?

—Pete Wichterman

Churchville, PA

The Bronco looks good for

a four-door. In the future,

can you include a way to fold

the photo—sort of like Mad

those of us who’d prefer

to dream of a two-door?

—Clark

Tuc son , AZ

I love that new Bronco. Make

mine Luminol Blue, just

like the one on the cover.

—Kato

Coopersville, MI

Body-on-frame, off-road

chops, Danas, and a manual?

Yes, please. Now add a V-8 or

the twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-

and F-150 towing numbers if

one. Dark green or a white

Eddie Bauer package, please.

—M. Keller

Tuc son , AZ

Do y’all base your ren-

derings on spy photos or

other renderings, or are

the current ones of the

Bronco merely guesses?

—Anthony Foster

Frankston , TX

In addition to spy photos,

we have a number of

deep-cover contacts who

coached us through the

rendering process—Ed.

COLUMNISTS

7. Sharon Silke Carty
   Big Data is watching.
   2 4. Daniel Pund
   If this carpet could talk.
   2 6. Ezra Dyer
   Scenes from the
   world’s last auto show.

UPFRONT
13. An Industry
Infected
COVID-19 disrupts the
globe, and the auto
industry is not immune.

16. Heated Debate
    A guide to winning
    climate-control fights.


17. Grounded
    The equipment that
    keeps the world flying.
    2 0. Cardboard Jungle
    Online shopping takes
    a toll on city traffic.


18. V-10, We Hardly
    Knew Ye
    Ten-cylinder engines
    are facing extinction.

THE RUNDOWN
73. 2020 Land Rover
Defender
Iconography.

76. 2021 Kia Seltos
    SX AWD
    Segment slicer.


77. 2021 Mercedes-
    AMG GLE6 3 S
    It’s the business.


78. 2020 BMW X5 M
    Nonsense and
    sensibility.

ETC.

5. Backfires
   Renaming the maga-
   zine and letting the
   electrical engineers
   have their day.
   84.... And One
   Worth Giving Up On
   It’s time to let go of the
   Pontiac G8 ST dream.

The same day I discovered that Car Craft

magazine had closed after 60-plus years, I

received my February issue of C/D. Hmm.

Of all things, a Bronco was on the cover. It

wasn’t that many years ago that such a thing

would have been heresy. It got me thinking.

—Richard Lasseter, Valdosta, GA

Perhaps you missed our January 1978 cover

that featured a Bronco—Ed.