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Range Rover Evoque
September 20, 2012
Range Rover Evoque (photo: Nigel Moll)
On the inside, Range Rover’s new, brand-bolstering Evoque is surprisingly spacious in the seating department and capable in performance, despite its four-cylinder engine and modest footprint (16 inches shorter and more than 1,600 pounds lighter than a Range Rover Sport). The interior trim is worthy of the marque, too, but the vehicle’s hatchback area offers limited baggage space.
Bentley Mulsanne
March 29, 2012
Bentley Mulsanne
With the Arnage growing long in the tooth, Bentley unveiled its new three-ton flagship for an appreciative audience at Pebble Beach in August 2009.
Two Star Generals - Volt for the future; CTS-V for old times’ sake
January 31, 2012
Two Star Generals
Nearly three years ago, many were writing off General Motors for dead. They would have been right had the U.S. government not decided that the company–or more correctly, its huge workforce and the employees of all the suppliers that depended on it–was too big to fail.
Ferrari 458 Spider
December 2, 2011
Ferrari 458 Spider
If there is such a thing as an Everyman's Ferrari, you're looking at it. The newly introduced 458 Spider caters to a segment whose taste for open-air driving can carry the stigma of lesser machinery hampered with the weight penalty and compromised structural rigidity of a vanishing roof.
Bugatti Veyron - 16.4 Grand Sport
July 21, 2011
Bugatti Veyron
We missed the road for Key Air at Waterbury Oxford Airport in Connecticut, and the ­subsequent U-turn in a church parking lot could have been a metaphor for seeking redemption for tooling around in the most powerful, most expensive production car in the world.
Audi A8L
June 1, 2011
There's almost room for a game of tennis doubles in the back of the new A8L, but since this is an Audi with Quattro all-wheel drive and a V8 in the nose, it's more sports limo than prom parade float.
Maserati GTC
February 28, 2011
The GTC’s 4.7-liter engine is a sibling of the V8 in the Ferrari F430. its 43
If a Ferrari or Lamborghini is over the top for your wallet, there's always the other Italian exotic.
Driver education on a higher plane
January 12, 2011
We started in M5s on a circle of polished concrete made ice-slick by water sp
Some pilots choose to grow slowly from the skill level they acquired to earn the basic license, and they never venture beyond the confines of the standard envelope. Most, however, push that envelope, either for the personal challenge or for professional advancement.
Jaguar XJ
December 1, 2010
With the push of a button, the car suddenly felt capable of handling the 470
Most people with a passion for things automotive can remember a time in their youth when they steamed up a face-size oval on a local showroom's window while absorbing every curve and gleam of a must-have new car.
Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE
October 1, 2010
Unless you can buy one, don’t drive a 599. Going back to your daily mule (eve
"What exactly is the point of a $356,000 car?" It floors me when people ask that question.

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“You are so motivated to make sure the trip goes smoothly, because you know that the organs of these two kids are now going to save the lives of more than just a handful of other kids.”

-Dan Drohan, CEO of Solarius ­Aviation