2012 Car and Driver: lightning lap

**foresterx** · January 7th, 2012 11:36 AM

very impressed with the lap times of panamera, mustang, lotus and cls63.

**OTEP** · January 7th, 2012 12:24 PM

Was reading this issue during my morning stint at the john. hehehe. They also have a review of the new CR-V in this issue.

It's amazing how much variety there is in Lightning Lap.

Do they still do the One Lap of America? The spiritual successor to The Cannonball Run (which also became a movie)

**vinj** · January 9th, 2012 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by OTEP

Was reading this issue during my morning stint at the john. hehehe. They also have a review of the new CR-V in this issue.

It's amazing how much variety there is in Lightning Lap.

Do they still do the One Lap of America? The spiritual successor to The Cannonball Run (which also became a movie)

They probably still have it. Nice at how that run evolved from a loose, coast-to-coast race to an well organized run with track time inbetween.

Sadly, Car and Driver for me now isn't the same as when i used to buy it in the 1990s. I tried subscribing for a year and I was not as happy with the articles and features as i was before; i guess it's also because a lot of the old writers i liked were not around anymore.

**OTEP** · January 9th, 2012 01:08 PM

Or maybe we just got older? hahaha. The magazine was reformatted to look like it was high on drugs but they toned it down again after lots of angry letters.

But yeah, the guys that made the magazine great are either dead or retired. At least I still have the old issues.

**vinj** · January 9th, 2012 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by OTEP

Or maybe we just got older? hahaha. The magazine was reformatted to look like it was high on drugs but they toned it down again after lots of angry letters.

But yeah, the guys that made the magazine great are either dead or retired. At least I still have the old issues.

Yeah, they're either dead or retired.

I also read my old issues from time to time, sadly i also lost quite a lot of which was accidentally sold off as scrap during hosue cleaning (i was buying Car and Driver, Road and Track and Motor Trend on a monthly basis for a good part of the 1990s).