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LET'S GET THE OBVIOUS out of the way: 200 mph is an absurd number. Jet airliners take off and land at slower speeds. 200 mph is twice as fast as [...]

It's easy to measure horsepower and it's simple to measure fuel economy. We can gauge interior and cargo space in cubic feet, engine size in cubic centimeters by the number [...]

RACETRACKS are often used to introduce new models to the press. Ferrari, for example, often uses its Fiorano test track, while Lamborghini brought its new Aventador supercar to Italy's renowned [...]

It's a tough time for yesterday's heroes. With the current automotive Zeitgeist increasingly focused on economy, weight has become more relevant than sheer power, mechanical and electronic advancements have had [...]

It's bound to happen. Somewhere at Porsche's headquarters in Zuffenhausen, a secretary will sign the DHL delivery slip for an enormous crate sitting in the parking lot. When a crew [...]

THERE ARE probably few things in the world more pointless than a 190-mph convertible. Even if you could find somewhere to go 190 mph, driving one with the roof down […]

WE'RE CRUISING Florida's Fernandina Beach while in town for the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. There's some fabulous hardware trolling the island this weekend, yet our brilliant Sunburst Yellow Sky is […]

OUR AUDIENCE with the current project manager of the 911 line, held in a small 'burb just outside of Porsche's technical center in Weissach, was intimate. A chit-chat over strudel […]

The 2006 Lexus IS350 reverts to rear-wheel drive but gets a potent motivational tool in a 306-hp, 3.5 liter V-6 that bristles with technological wizardry. The new IS is visibly larger than the old one - 3.5 inches longer and 3.0 inches wider, with 29 percent more trunk capacity.

The all-new Miata, now called the MX-5 explored Hawaii's Big Island and as they drove saw the 35-mph speed limit did not bother them. The Mazda MX-5 has slightly more room for longer torsos due to the 0.6 inch taller windshield header, a seatback with another degree of rearward travel and a new tilt steering column.

The Ferrari F430 Spider is an impressive-looking car estimated at $195,000 with rear brakes of Vented disc, ABS and a two-door convertible body style. Its main components include a DOHC V-8 engine, power of 483 hp, torque of 343 lb-ft and a top speed of 193 mph.

A presentation on the four cars Quattro Coupe, Quattro Sport, A2 Rally Car and S1 Rally Car along with their features is provided. While the Quattro Coupe has a top speed of 143 mph, 220 hp and torque of 28 lb-ft at 1950 rpm, the Quattro Sport has a top speed of 155 mph, 2133 cc engine, and 302 hp and torque of244 lb-ft at 4500 rpm.

Daytona prototype can be viewed as the anti-Can-Am car and avoid power and price increases. This sports racing car is a two seater with 500 horse power and weighs 2200 pounds and was built to compete in the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series.

The Ford Shelby Cobra forms one of the trilogies with Mustang GT and Ford GT. Under its ugly exterior weighing just 3000 pounds, the Ford Shelby Cobra has the makings of a great sports car.

The Jaguar X-type did not live upto its expectations and was not successful in increasing the brands overall volume despite its low base price and the failure of the Jaguar X-type could be attributed to the economic environment prevalent at the time of the launch. The Jaguar X-type has a sporty chassis, unflappable all-wheel drive system and has a roomy trunk but it has an overwrought type of styling, unconvincing interior, and displays unreliability.

Ride quality--it has always been the main problem with Morgans. The term 'quality' is used here only in its broadest sense, as for the better part of a century there's [...]

CAP D'AIL, FRANCE ROLLS-ROYCE ONCE ADVERTISED ITSELF as 'the best ear in the world.' At some point that might well have been true, but until the Rolls-Royce Phantom was introduced [...]

Byline: MARK VAUGHN In THE EARLY MORNING OF May 13, a pile of paperwork arrived at a desk in Malvern Link, Worcestershire, England, from somebody deep in the pancreas of […]

OFF TO SANTA BARBARA, where BMW has summoned us to sample the new M6 convertible and the 640i Gran Coupe, equally ample and freshly misnamed--being a four-door and not a [...]

THREE YEARS AGO, in the June 2009 issue of this magazine, I looked at the promising Infiniti Essence concept, concluded that ''too much of a good thing is still... too [...]

DISCONTINUATION BE DAMNED, Dodge engineers have been busy building a factory race car: the Dodge Viper ACR-X. The ACR-X is a non-street-legal version of the Viper ACR; so don't go [...]

If small cars are particularly adept at changing direction, you might assume that small car companies can react to customer demands quickly, too. In the case of Tesla Motors, that [...]

* PHOENIX Spyker, the ten-year-old Dutch automaker, is one part plucky and four parts crazy. Its first effort, the C8 Spyder, was something of a rich Dutchman's Dodge Viper--a rough-edged [...]

In its initial configuration, the German-influenced Phantom was certainly imposing but also just a shade goofy-looking. There was no mistaking its marque identity, but 'huh?' was an appropriate response to [...]