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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:02:10 +0000

2008 Porsche Boxster RS60 Spyder: Perfect

When a carmaker has a model that has been around for a while, it start's making special models, such as Porsche has done with the 2008 Boxster RS60 Spyder. But then, aren't all Porsches special? Still, with a mid-cycle update due in January, 2009, Porsche was able to tweak a bit of extra interest in its [...]

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:10:16 +0000

2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X MR: Racing improves the fun

We're not sure if "racing improves the breed" but it sure does make it fun. Witness the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X MR. It's not really derived from "racing" as such but rather "pro rally," which is a cross between a drive down a dirt road in Spain or a snow-covered fire-trail in Michigan, and the [...]

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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:38:15 +0000

2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe: This Rolls, a commoner might say, kicks back

We know some have held back from buying the Rolls-Royce Phantom because it was too stuffy and squarely formal but here’s a new Rolls with which one can get down, as common people might say. The new Phantom Drophead Coupe is a sexy droptop with more flowing lines, a picnic boot for tailgaters, a stainless [...]

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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:43:31 +0000

Green Seen

Our colleague Jim Henry recently wrote in bnet.com  abou a survey that claimed the wealthy are buying more fuel efficient cars, concerned as they are about the price of fuel. Wait, those who buy a house with the floor space of the USS Enterprise with the concurrent carbon footprint of Godzilla in a coal mine (think [...]

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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:03:57 +0000

2008 Mazda MX-5 Miata PRHT: Coming home with a hardtop

We go back a long way with the Mazda Miata. We first drove the Miata in 1989, when there were just two of Mazda's roadsters on the east coast. Later we earned our Sports Car Club of America competition license in a Showroom Stock C Mazda, and had our first ever win in our first [...]

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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:48:52 +0000

2008 Nissan Cube JDM: It's a parallelepiped

We have seen the future and it is...a Cube? It is for Nissan, anyway, beginning in the spring of 2009. Sold in the Japanese market since 2002, the Cube is aptly named because, well, it's a cube. Technically it's a parallelepiped, defined as "a solid with six faces, each a parallelogram and each being parallel to [...]

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:16:40 +0000

Is bloodletting the cure for General Motors?

My doctor hasn’t prescribed bloodletting as a cure for a long time. I don’t see why the corporate version that armchair executives trot out ever so often is any better. The "bloodletting" I'm referring to in the first sentence, of course, is the recurring cry of automotive pundits that this or that (almost always) American manufacturer [...]

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:55:08 +0000

2009 Acura TSX Tech: Mr. Smoothie

Acura touts the all-new 2009 Acura TSX as a player in the "premium sports sedan segment." We think they're missing the boat. Or at least the boat should be named Mr.Smoothie. Or somesuch. The boat we're talking about is that the "premium sports sedan" description somehow misses the fact that the 2009 Acura TSX is smooth. [...]

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Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:20:23 +0000

2008 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible: Grant Would

The Chevrolet Corvette is such a fixture in the American landscape, if Grant Wood were still alive he'd paint that dour-faced pitch-fork holding farm couple in a Corvette, the farmer with his hand on the shifter and grins on both their faces. And no doubt he'd update the duds as well. As such, it doesn't seem [...]

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:26:13 +0000

Drill Now

So gasoline has hit $4.00 per gallon and seems poised to go even higher. Well, la-de-da. And why do we say that? The law of supply and demand says the current price bump is from the well-known effect of supply and demand. Pardon the tautology for a moment because in this case, much of the demand [...]

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