While other manufacturers are obsessed with taking the fat out of the limited-edition, high-performance variants of their consumer-market models, VW has used more cream to whip the three-door GTI into the faster, stronger 2008 Volkswagen R32. That the latter weighs 400 pounds more than the former offers you some insight into the R32's decadent approach to speed.
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Lexus isn't after high-income buyers with the 2008 Lexus LS 600h L. "These people don't have income," one Lexus official told us about the target buyer for the LS 600h. "They have wealth. Money isn't the concern. Instead they're concerned about prestige, appearance and the statement their car makes about them."
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For Edmunds' Inside Line article: www.edmunds.com Five years since its rebirth, the Nissan 350Z remains one of the world's great performance bargains. But it isn't pretty. It isn't subtle. And it doesn't care whether you think the cabin is stylish or not. This is all part of the hard-core image Nissan has built for the Z. And rather than back away from it as the end of the Z-car's model cycle nears, Nissan is pushing this car's character right to the edge of reason.
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Ford doesn't build Mustangs to fly. That was true back in 1968 when Steve McQueen sent a GT 390 soaring over the hills of San Francisco in Bullitt. And it's true of the new 315-horsepower 2008 Mustang Bullitt. We jumped it anyway. Not because we wanted to, but because we had to. It's a Mustang Bullitt, and that means it's gotta fly. Check out the article on Edmunds' Inside Line: www.edmunds.com
www.edmunds.com Over the last 40 years, Toyota has sold more than 30 million examples of the Corolla in 142 countries, earning this automobile the title of the world's best-selling passenger car on the planet. Even with the introduction of the entry-level Toyota Yaris and the youth-oriented Scion models, Toyota still managed to sell a record-breaking 390000 Corollas in 2006 and is on track to match that number this year.
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Edmunds' Inside Line's European Correspondent, Alistair Weaver, heads to the Australian Outback in a Mercedes G-Wagen to drive the Canning Stock Route. It's Australia's toughest off-road trail and things did not go according to plan... Watch More Videos on Edmunds' Inside Line: www.insideline.com More Info: www.insideline.com Prices Info www.edmunds.com Twitter twiMtter.com Edmunds.com twitter.com Facebook Page: www.facebook.com
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It really hits you as you watch the 80th Ford GT pull into Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. If the thought of Ford producing a Ferrari-beating exotic sports car seemed extraordinary back in 2002, the fervor caused by the Ford GT once it hit showrooms and enthusiast publications in the fall of 2004 has proven unprecedented. Now, standing under the largest Blue Oval on the planet while basking in the guttural roar of more than 80 GTs screaming around Ford's glass tower, the full weight of what Ford has created becomes apparent....
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www.edmunds.com Audi has figured out that a coupe should be beautiful, not merely exclusive. Even as the typical German sedan has become a beast with swollen fenders and a massive grille, designed to bludgeon the meek out of the fast lane on the autobahn, the 2008 Audi S5 has a different look. Its curving contours are leaner, more expressive and more energetic.
The last soccer-mom vehicle-priority poll that we took ranked interior space, efficiency and affordability far higher than at-the-limit handling or acceleration. And that's why it doesn't matter that the 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid won't blow you away with its drag-strip performance or skid-pad numbers. It doesn't handle or stop like a sports car and it's not terribly interesting to drive.
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The 2009 Toyota Matrix is supposed to be very influential, just as the original Matrix proved when it was introduced in 2003. This tall wagon-style compact based on the Toyota Corolla had a sport-utility flavor but drove like a car, making it one of the first crossovers with an affordable price tag. Its big backseat and dog-friendly cargo bay made utility kind of cool. Without the Matrix, the Mazda3 five-door, Scion xB and even the Audi A3 might not have achieved the coolness they have today.
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www.edmunds.com "Did you hear it?" That's what everyone who drove the 2008 Audi RS4 Cabriolet came back and said. They'd start talking about the 420-horsepower 4.2-liter V8 and say, "Did you hear it?" Start the V8 and fly through the six gears with the greatest of ease. The mechanical music is pure bliss. If Beethoven composed a car, this is what it would sound like. Not simply loud and boisterous like an American V8, but instead pure and very powerful, with a classically German timbre.
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If the engine is the soul of every car, then the 2007 Audi RS 4 has more character under its hood than most performance cars possess from tip to tailpipe. With 4.2 liters of direct-injected aluminum fury, its V8 makes 420 horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque, and revs to an unbelievable 8250 rpm. Now that's some soul. And it's all forward of the front axle....
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For the record, Ralliart was the name of Mitsubishi's now defunct worldwide rallying effort. While the rooster-tail racing is gone, the name lives on as a performance umbrella under which future performance models will be launched. Think of it as the Mitsubishi version of AMG Mercedes-Benz. Any product with the Ralliart logo will be an indication to shoppers that this is a steroid-enhanced version with more power, better handling and unique visual cues. The hope, of course, is that if the standard model doesn't motivate you to consider the brand, maybe the buffed and flexed version will make you swoon.
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For Full Article: www.edmunds.com The latest supercar to join the millionaires' club is the 2008 Lamborghini Reventon, a €1000000 special edition of the Murciélago LP640 that's been clothed in unique carbon-fiber bodywork. If it looks like a jet fighter to you, then you're getting the idea. The Reventon's bodywork is pure Stealth fighter, an assembly of flat, geometric planes, interrupted lines and contorted surfaces. The look has been developed at Lamborghini Centro Stile in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, under the direction of chief designer Manfred Fitzgerald.
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2010 Mazdaspeed 3 Full Test: www.edmunds.com More Articles: www.insideline.com Car Prices & Info www.edmunds.com Twitter Feed twitter.com Facebook Page www.facebook.com Hi-Res Videos: www.hulu.com side-line We're the first to strap our testing gear to the heavily revised 2010 Mazdaspeed 3 and we'll get the bad news out of the way first. Here goes: It's slower than the old car. Among the many bits of good news is that it's faster than the outgoing model. Say what?
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For Full Article: www.edmunds.com 2008 Audi A8 @ Frankfurt: www.youtube.com With its all-aluminum space-frame construction, sophisticated Quattro all-wheel-drive system, adaptive air suspension and available W12 engine, Audi's A8 is all about high technology. And keeping the A8 on the technological cutting edge is critical for Audi.
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There is no perfect police car, but the 2007 Dodge Charger Police Package is as good as it gets right now. In fact, it's the quickest and fastest police sedan ever sold to law enforcement agencies through normal government bidding processes — you know, processes where "low bid" means "good enough."
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With barely a month to go before its official debut, the 2009 Nissan GT-R returned to the Nürburgring. This time there was a very specific goal in mind, and according to our spy shooters, Nissan may have already reached it.
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With its all-new Megatron-faced 2007 MDX, Acura wants the MDX to be mentioned in the same breath as the Porsche Cayenne and BMW X5. Doing so required the new MDX to be a much hotter tamale than the lame-duck MDX in nearly every way, so Acura endowed the 2007 model with a formidable dynamic repertoire. Effectively negotiating the opposing tables of performance, utility and comfort is a delicate balancing act that the smarter, buffer MDX pulls off convincingly.
When you first jump in and turn the key — no doubt still smitten with its looks — the Sky seems to be just fine. It makes a grumbling exhaust note. It's rear-wheel drive. The 2.4-liter Ecotec DOHC inline-4 revs pretty high and pushes pretty quick. Above all, everyone seems to be looking at you, which makes up for a lot in Southern California.
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The high-pitched whine as the 2009 Honda FCX Clarity's "engine" spools up is a sound as futuristic as any to be heard aboard the Millennium Falcon. Except the Star Wars ship is all fiction and movie magic. The FCX Clarity is all fact. The future — green, fuel-efficient and petroleum-free — is here. Check out the full Edmunds' Inside Line article: www.edmunds.com
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2009 Tokyo Auto Show Highlights: www.insideline.com Mitsubishi PX MIEV @ 2009 Tokyo Auto Show: www.youtube.com It may be smaller, but don't count it out. There's a lot to see at this years Tokyo Auto Show, including the Lexus LFA, Toyota FT-86, Honda CR-Z, and more.
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FOLLOW-UP TEST BY EDMUNDS' INSIDE LINE: www.edmunds.com Kicking GM while it's enduring the bitter sting of bankruptcy seems so sophomoric. And so do the massive powerslides we've been doing in the company's 2009 Chevrolet Corvette, so let's begin this review on a positive note by discussing one of the Vette's finer points: Acceleration. First thing you need to know: At wide-open throttle, the LS3 under the Corvette's hood does subtlety like Jessica Simpson does brains. That is to say, not so well — which is awesome, actually. Nailing the gas in this, the tamest of Vettes, is akin to unleashing a thousand pushrod-wielding Hulk Hogans on the car's rear tires. There's a blast of torque followed by a double underhook suplex of forward force. It's as impressive as it is surprising. This is, after all, only a base Corvette. But it's got motor. The LS3 is possibly the best bargain in the world when it comes to eight cylinders arranged in a vee, and it defines the modern Corvette. In our hands it blasts this 3275-pound coupe to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds (4.0 seconds with 1 foot rollout like on a drag strip). But it doesn't stop there. The quarter-mile is incinerated in 12.3 seconds at 116 mph. The trip from 100 to 120 mph takes 4 seconds flat — only 0.3 second slower than the often-drooled-over and far costlier Nissan GT-R. And the fun continues, according to Chevrolet, until 190 mph.
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For Full Article: www.edmunds.com The modern-day Mini Clubman has found its way from concept to production reality less than two years after it first made headlines at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show. Although called "Traveller" at Frankfurt, BMW has decided the Clubman moniker is a better fit for the new car. The 2008 Mini Cooper S Clubman partakes of the third in what insiders hint could eventually be a whole range of differing body styles for the Mini, as BMW seeks to build the brand into a complete lineup of models to carry the British carmaker's sales into the next decade.
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Conventional prejudice says you can't put a transverse V6 in a big front-drive car and call it a sport coupe. But after 600 miles with the 2008 Nissan Altima 3.5 SE Coupe, we're going to rise above our car-geek heritage and do just that....
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Hatchbacks rule. And they're popping up all over the place. But the 2007 Suzuki SX4 is much more than a hatchback. Sure, it compares in size and price to the new crop of vehicles being produced by other Asian automakers but the Suzuki SX4 is the least expensive all-wheel-drive vehicle on the market. With a five-speed manual transmission its base price is just $14999.
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FOR FULL HENNESSEY ARTICLE @ INSIDELINE.COM: www.edmunds.com Automotive lust in America means blown Camaros. You know, like the red '69s on every cover of Car Craft. A big BDS 10-71 supercharger sticking through the hood and massive M/T drag slicks under tubs in back. Let the rest of the world dream of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and dinky little British two-seaters. In this country speed doesn't look like that. It looks like this. This is the Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) "HPE550" supercharged 2010 Camaro SS. That's right, it's a blown Camaro. The first blown 2010 Chevy Camaro. And that makes it the very newest version of a true American icon. Ranks right up there with the Beach Boys, buckets of deep fried chicken and our incomprehensible Internal Revenue Code. Be proud of it. We Americans invented the greatest car ever: The loud, tire-smoking, V8-powered, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive muscle machine. And we should celebrate the accomplishment just as John Hennessey is, by building more.
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Our weekend thrash of the new standard/regular/base/normal 2007 Porsche Cayman on German back roads and autobahns instantly revealed that this S-less wünder retains much of the inherent goodness and finely honed driving behavior of the original high-performance, 2-seat, midengine/rear-drive Cayman S coupe. What has been lost in the S-removal process is 50 horsepower, 0.7 second of 0-60 quickness, and $9500 in price.
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www.edmunds.com You might have seen the first official photos of the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, but now you can take a look at the new turbocharged sedan on the Nürburgring test track in Germany. Set to go on sale in early 2008, the next-generation Lancer Evo X will introduce two new pieces of technology to the Evo nameplate in addition to some nicely shaped sheet metal....
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More Articles: www.insideline.com Car Prices & Info www.edmunds.com Twitter Feed twitter.com Facebook Page www.facebook.com Hi-Res Videos: www.hulu.com side-line We're driving a 2007 Cadillac Escalade, which means we've enjoyed a week's worth of middle-aged office guys asking us about Nelly, Snoop and other hip-hop artists they'd never listen to with the windows down. Yet they wouldn't even crack a smile when we invited them to suit up in Fubu and take a ride down the Sunset Strip.
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The Altima is arguably the most important Nissan product of the last decade. If you go back a mere 10 years and look at Nissan circa 1996 you'll see a company struggling to survive in the North American market. The Z was about to die. The "premium" products coming out of Infiniti were lackluster at best, and nothing in Nissan's future portfolio indicated a turnaround was anywhere on the horizon.
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BMW of North America head honcho Tom Purves doesn't like when you call the 2007 BMW X5 a sport-utility vehicle. We're not sure that we even finished pronouncing the "U" in SUV before Purves piped in, "SAV!" All right sure, it's a "Sport Activity Vehicle."
With 425 horsepower motivating only 2484 pounds and enough mechanical grip to embarrass most supercars, the 2007 Noble M400 has laid waste to the record books at Inside Line like the Terminator tearing through a cop-filled doughnut shop.
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It might seem odd to be studying Italian while driving a Japanese SUV but we figured Honda is learning to speak a new language with its first turbocharged engine, so why shouldn't we? After one minute in the charismatic new RDX, we realized we should have been brushing up on our German. The RDX is a Japanese SUV, made for the American market, but it drives like a German sport sedan.
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With the 2007 Audi S6, the engineers in Ingolstadt have done their best to win respect based on pure performance, and they're not making any more half-hearted explanations about any compromises required by their quattro all-wheel drive. The 2007 Audi S6 is about pure power, pure cornering performance and no excuses.
Until now Audi has been content to watch from the sidelines as its competition created truck after truck after truck. The German automaker is one of the last manufacturers in the world without a sport-ute in its lineup, and its accountants and stockholders are sick of it.
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During a day in the 2008 Toyota Sequoia, we end up visiting every small town within 100 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina. We're shooting a video of Toyota's redesigned full-size SUV as it motors along in suburban America. But it's easier said than done on roads dotted with housing subdivisions, school buses and even logging trucks. Check out the full Edmunds' Inside Line article: www.edmunds.com
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Let's cut right to the chase. The 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 is our favorite Porsche. It's as if everything that Porsche has ever known about fast cars has been stuffed into this 911. Lightning reflexes, check. Sensuous sex on wheels, uh-huh. Neck-stretching cornering grip, you betcha. God-awful speed, abso-bloody-lutely. Heartlessly cruel to the inexperienced? Well, no, actually.
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Our spy shooter caught the 2012 Suzuki Swift testing in Germany. More Articles: www.insideline.com Car Prices & Info www.edmunds.com Inside Line on Twitter twitter.com Edmunds.com on Twitter: twitter.com Facebook Page: www.facebook.com Hi-Res Videos: www.hulu.com side-line
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It's not an easy thing to get people interested in practicality, but the 2007 Kia Rondo does its best. The Rondo has all the right numbers that add up to something we can all recognize as practical goodness: the whole matrix of five-door hatchback, seven-passenger capacity, V6 power and a price under $25000.
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