10-03-2025
About the Car and Driver Gear Team: Why Trust Us
Since 1964, Car and Driver has prided itself on hands-on testing and real-world experience behind the wheel and under the hood to bring you the best in automotive news. The Gear Team brings that same legendary passion and knowledge to our product reviews and gear tests.
We take the same approach to gear that our car reviewers rely on to test cars: We evaluate products on their own merit, compare them to the competition, and tell you the truth.
With many of the trusted magazines and newspapers of the good old days replaced by search-engine-hacking, algorithm-manipulating websites, the Gear Team delivers honest evaluations of the most popular automotive parts, tools, and products, driven by decades of knowledge and experience.
If you're finding yourself increasingly baffled, bemused, and disappointed by the "expert" reviews you see online these days, you can still trust Car and Driver. The Gear Team gets our hands on nearly every product, tool, and piece of gear we test, and we never recommend anything we wouldn't buy ourselves.
The Gear Team chooses all our products independently based on our knowledge of the automotive market and gear landscape. We never accept payment in exchange for editorial placement. Ever. We'll never say anything is "the best" if we wouldn't recommend it to our friends or buy it ourselves, and we won't tell you we've tested something unless we've put it through our own wringer. That's a promise.
The Gear Team purchases most of the gear and products we rate and review. Some is supplied by manufacturers for testing purposes; trustworthy manufacturers and retailers offer us the chance to test their gear because they believe in the quality and value of the work they do and the products they make and sell. In fact, we're often suspicious of companies who refuse to donate products for evaluation.
Car and Driver is one of the largest, most influential automotive publications in the world, so we don't have to worry about gaming search engines to get traffic, or promoting lousy products to sell junk. Rather, we're concerned with our legacy, our reputation, and most of all the trust that you, our readers, have in us. We know you rely on us to give it to you straight, and like our editorial car reviewers, the Gear Team promises to deliver the truth, every of Special Projects
Thanks to the Cannonball Run movies and tales of his father's beloved 1969 Plymouth GTX, Patrick Carone has been obsessed with cars since the Reagan administration. Testing vehicles from his home in New York City has given him the dubious ability to confidently pilot half-a-million-dollar supercars through midtown at rush Commerce Editor
Jon Langston is an avid motorcyclist and gear collector whose work has appeared in Men's Journal, The Drive, Rider, Iron & Air, Cycle World, and Commerce Editor
Collin Morgan is the Associate Commerce Editor at Hearst Autos, where he presents the best gear for your automotive endeavors. He's been a technician in the trenches of Midwestern automotive repair, explored the automotive shrines in central Italy, and now enjoys making slow cars go fast around various Michigan Editor
Collin Morgan is a Commerce Editor at Hearst Autos, where he presents the best gear for your automotive endeavors. He's been a technician in the trenches of Midwestern automotive repair, explored the automotive shrines in central Italy, and now enjoys making slow cars go fast around various Michigan Testing Editor
Gannon Burgett loves cameras, cars, and coffee: a perfect combination for his Hearst Autos work. His byline has appeared in USA Today, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, the Detroit Free Press, and Testing Editor
Gannon Burgett loves cameras, cars, and coffee: a perfect combination for his Hearst Autos work. His byline has appeared in USA Today, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, the Detroit Free Press, and Testing Editor
By day, Katherine Keeler evaluates tools for your enjoyment; by night, she Frankensteins her ever-changing fleet of rust-bucket oddities back to repair. Her dream is to open a roadside attraction where the public can view, drive, and learn repairs at her emporium of curious Testing Editor
By day, Katherine Keeler evaluates tools for your enjoyment; by night, she Frankensteins her ever-changing fleet of rust-bucket oddities back to repair. Her dream is to open a roadside attraction where the public can view, drive, and learn repairs at her emporium of curious Commerce Editor
The Assistant Commerce Editor for Hearst Autos, Justin Helton is an enthusiast with a passion for heavily depreciated autos and a penchant for philosophical debate. As a lifelong Manhattanite, he has mastered the ins and outs of classic car ownership in one of the least car-friendly cities in the Testing Editor
With a degree in multimedia journalism and a passion for the automotive world, Mason Cordell enjoys driving, wrenching, writing, and everything in between. At the age of 22, his garage consisted of a '95 Miata, an '08 M5, and a 1987 Porsche 944S. Clearly, he has a problem.
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