To really put an automobile through its paces, you have to cover a lot of ground. Good thing the Consumer Reports Auto Test Center sprawls across 327 acres in rural Connecticut, where we push the cars ...

Consumer Reports will soon release this year's top picks in cars, trucks, minivans and SUVs. To find out how the top picks are chosen, 5 on Your Side's Monica Laliberte traveled to the Consumer ...

On a stretch of painstakingly maintained asphalt in rural Connecticut, Ryan Pszczolkowski lined up a Rivian electric pickup truck at the start of a long straightaway. After a beat, he floored it. The ...

Software testing is vital for the automotive sector, especially as fitted advanced technology in vehicles proliferates. In a recent study carried out by Harvard Review on developers, results showed ...

Director of engineering for automotive products at FLIR Systems Inc. Vehicles with automatic emergency braking systems may be vulnerable when driving at night or into harsh sunlight, and current ...

Consumer Reports, the nonprofit product testing organization, is adapting to the rise of the electric vehicle. One change: Range tests that show how far you can drive on a full battery charge.

Ever since then, we’ve built MotorTrend’s unbiased new-car reviews and comparison tests on the data and insights gleaned from instrumented testing. Our experienced drivers test hundreds of vehicles ...

With data from more than 50 tests conducted by Consumer Reports, our ratings reveal which automakers create the best all-around driving experience 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid By Jeff S. Bartlett With ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has toughened up the tests required to earn one of its coveted Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ awards. The institute has spent the past 65 years ...

Part Average Testing (PAT) has long been used in automotive. For some semiconductor technologies it remains viable, while for others it is no longer good enough. Automakers are bracing for chips ...

U.S. Army Arctic Regions Test Center (ARTC) is the Department of Defense’s lone extreme cold test facility. Tasked with testing virtually everything in the ground combat arsenal in a natural ...