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April 2008 - Posts
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BY STEVE SILER
These are the only senses the Lotus Elise Supercharged (Lotus also calls it the Elise SC 220) stimulates. Even taste: At various points during our spirited drive of the spunky supercharged two-seater along the asphalt ribbons of northern San Diego County, we found ourselves picking sand out of our hair, shirts, and, yes, [...]
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Infiniti’s original FX moon buggy debuted in 2003 intending to be a sports sedan wearing a fanny pack. It handled well, accelerated smartly with the optional V-8, and looked particularly glam on its optional 20-inch wheels. It also rode as if its axles were welded directly to the body. Averaging 23,000 sales per year, the [...]
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BY DAVE VANDERWERP
Honda reskins and rethinks its brilliantly packaged eight-passenger SUV.
When the Pilot launched in 2002 as an ’03 model, it was a little ahead of its time. Back then, trucky, body-on-frame SUVs such as the Ford Explorer were the big sellers, and fuel economy wasn’t in the forefront of anyone’s mind. The Pilot’s innovative [...]
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BY JENS MEINERS
Affirmed class consciousness with the latest upgrade of this posh little car.
For more than two decades, the Volkswagen Golf—or Rabbit in the U.S.—has been the classless car par excellence in Europe, driven by students, the common worker, and the top executive who appreciates the anonymity of the compact hatchback.
The demographics of the Golf [...]
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BY JENS MEINERS
VW introduces new vehicles for the Chinese market as it works to restore its dominance in the region.
Struggling to keep its position as the Chinese market leader and faced with the task of keeping two very different joint-venture partners happy, VW unveils two new cars at the Beijing auto show that look familiar [...]
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BY ALISA PRIDDLE
The increased scope of vehicle sharing refuels speculation of a greater merge.
Speculation refuses to die down about a potential merger of Nissan and Chrysler, and announcements such as plans to collaborate on small cars and full-size pickups only adds fuel to the flames.
Nissan already signed an agreement with Chrysler to build a version [...]
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BY DAVE VANDERWERP
A 5000-pound SUV has no business driving this well.
Take an extra-close look at the pictures of the new X6, because the success of this new X5-based SUV depends on it. Is the X6 beautiful? Ground breaking? Fashionable? Or does it come across as a lifted five-door hatchback?
To arrive at the X6, BMW took [...]
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BY AARON ROBINSON, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN SEGAL
Big, Heavy, and Incredible: Nissan’s big gun punches high-caliber holes in our expectations.
At first glance, the Nissan GT-R seems a totem for everything wrong with modern sports cars. It’s much too big, way too heavy, far too complex, and damnably too expensive for mere wage earners, especially after inevitable [...]
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