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The Roar of the Road
You can spend a lot of time explaining what the Aston Martin DBS is and what it is not. |
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Raise the Roof
‘Aeroacoustics’ allow you to hear your passenger in the new Mercedes McLaren SLR Roadster |
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Opera, Symphony, Bugatti
Check the power meter: The sleek, $1.2 million Veyron can light up a small town. |
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Reeves Callaway C16 Speedster
The $305,000 C16 is based on the Chevrolet Corvette. Strap on your $10,000 helmet and shoot past imposters. |
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Lexus LS 600h L
Toyota has given us the new Lexus LS 600h L, equipped with impressive safety features as the most complicated production car on the road today. It’s also the largest hybrid car you can buy. |
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Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG Black Series
The Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG Black Series suits the racing crowd. Exotic cars take many forms, but few hide their talents as well as the new hyper Benz. |
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Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupé
We’ve waited almost four years for the Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupé to arrive, but new Rolls-Royces are born almost as infrequently as new planets.
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Bentley GTC
Ride Like the Wind. The Bentley GTC raises the bar on topless performance. The GTC retains the tin top’s performance and handling abilities, yet adds the convertible roof. |
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Green Machines
Ride on without an environmental care in the world. Hybrids — made famous first by the almost ubiquitous Toyota Prius — represent the first and best-known technology, with its appeal broadening to include the Lexus 400h, the Toyota Camry, and the Ford Escape
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Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder
The open-air Gallardo Spyder offers a new realm of luxury. Not long ago, driving a Lamborghini was like sitting in the front car of a runaway rollercoaster. |
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100th Los Angeles Auto Show
Carmakers unveil their finest new designs (and a few duds) at the 100th Los Angeles Auto Show. The Audi R8 takes the automaker’s track success and puts it on the open road. |
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Mercedes-Benz CL550
Slipping into the completely redesigned Mercedes-Benz CL550, you will see neither a slot for the ignition key nor a gearshift. |
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Aston Martin's Vantage V8
The Vantage produces the most perfect V-8 exhaust note known to man. With that kind of parentage, it’s fair to say that the V8 Vantage uses the wings on its logo to get off to a flying start. |
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Maserati GranSport V8
Alive with Italian color and character, the Maserati GranSport V8 competes with the Porsche 911 and Aston Martin V8 Vantage on its own terms and in its own special ways.
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Viper SRT-10
The supersized Viper SRT-10 Coupe is as tough as it looks — and faster! The 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 Coupe is so brutal it could reasonably be charged with assault. |
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99th The Los Angeles Auto Show
The $1,170 Ferrari Superamerica. The $319,100 Lamborghini Murcielago roadster. For the properly obsessed, these delicious machines address the need to embrace truth. |
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Lexus RX 400h
Clearing the Air — The eco-friendly Lexus RX 400h offers a practical alternative to gas-guzzling SUVs. If you didn’t already know, you could be excused for thinking the “h” in Lexus RX 400h stands for “hot.” |
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Jaguar XJ Super V8 Portfolio
Just 145 of the rare beasts are going to find their way into the United States this year, and every last one of them has already been sold. |
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Porsche Carrera GT
A wildcat of a road car, the Porsche Carrera GT packs an explosive experience. — the hairs on the back of your neck stand up so straight they feel like they will never go down. |
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Ford GT
It’s 115 degrees outside, but the temperature inside the cockpit of this black-on-black Ford GT is somewhere north of that figure. |
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BMW 645Ci Convertible
Raise the roof! The BMW 645Ci Convertible’s power foils its open-air design. |
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Jaguar X-Type
The 2005 Jaguar X-Type serves up all of the brand’s style, quality, and luxury in three new and quite separate packages — each featuring all-wheel drive as standard and oozing that inimitable Jaguar class. |
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Land Rover LR3
Land Rover’s LR3 conquers the elements. An old design maxim says that when something looks right, it is right. |
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Corvette C6
The redesigned Corvette C6 adds custom comforts and super-car flair. Hairy, brash, loud, and overdecorated, you can spot them coming a mile away. |
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Brabus-tuned Mercedes Benz SL
Brabus is a standalone but dedicated tuner of Mercedes-Benz cars that has been pumping high-octane automotive steroids into anything sporting a three-pointed star for more than 25 years. |
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Rolls-Royces Phantom
The Phantom (base price: $320,000) might not zip down the road like the GT, but it never feels slow or underpowered. |
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Saleen's S7
Speed Demon — Homegrown and built to go from zero to 60 in less than three seconds, the fastest U.S. supercar. This car first shot onto the nation’s highways and racetracks in 2001. |
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Lotus Elise
Less is More - With racecar precision and supercar speed, the Lotus Elise takes you to the edge of practicality. |
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Bentley GT
Best of British — The Bentley GT combines sports-car performance with luxury-car amenities. |
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Wheels - Infiniti QX56
The Infiniti QX56, according to the company, offers “anything and everything you could want in a premium SUV.” |
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Hummer H3T
Yard-high tires, a radical five-cylinder, 350-horsepower turbo-charged engine, and style to stop your heart — this is not your father’s apocalypse-mobile. |
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Cadillac SRX
Caddy's Back - America's preeminent luxury brand retools with impressive power, design, and technology. |
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Porsche 911 Turbo
Simply The Best. The Porsche 911 Turbo's Chassis and engine are largely responsible for this astonishing progress - and your feeling of invincibility. |
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