While debuting a may have seemed out of place in Qatar, using an auto show in the land of the oil-rich to unveil a special-edition Gallardo seems just about right. The two-tone Gallardo Bicolore will be offered only with all-wheel drive as an LP560-4 in other markets, but the version that makes it to us [...]
Date: Months in Fleet: Current Mileage: 31,197 miles Average Fuel Economy: Range: Service: Normal Wear: Repair: If a great mid-size sedan falls into the showrooms of a small brand that few people know about, will anybody hear it? That’s the question posed by the , a hidden gem that has been mostly charming the staff [...]
As GM wobbled toward bankruptcy, the company’s boosters often cited Cadillac as proof that at least one division knew the secret for success. But stroll through a Cadillac showroom. The DTS isn’t even on your Uncle Marvin’s radar. The pretty but aging STS has been nudged onto the berm by at least five luxo-sports sedans, [...]
Introduction The Spectra is Kia’s rival to the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, and Ford Focus, the bestsellers in the compact class. The Spectra is available as a sedan and also a hatchback known as the Spectra5. The Spectra sedan is offered in three trim levels: LX, EX, and SX. Base pricing starts at less than [...]
They say we all have to grow up sooner or later, and it appears that the Subaru Impreza WRX STI, one of autodom’s brashest bad-boy sedans, has succumbed to this somber inevitability, at least to some degree. Unveiled at October’s Tokyo motor show, the STI has morphed from a bellicose little four-door into a five-door [...]
“Competition,” said John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and an early poster child of the business monopoly, “is a sin.” He’d certainly be horrified by the competition going on these days among the makers of sports sedans. To many, these are the jewels of the high-performance market, and yet they seat at least [...]
Murphy’s Law states that if something can go wrong, it will. Bentley’s PR types might have considered that before having board member Ulrich Eichhorn demonstrate the power top of the Continental GTC to the assembled press at the car’s introduction in Napa, California. Naturally, the top raised its leading edge in a feeble wave of [...]
PORTABLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM: There are a lot of things we liked about the $1090 Garmin StreetPilot III handheld navigation system. It’s compact (about the size of a brick), comes with an internal battery and a 12-volt cigarette-lighter plug, has a color screen, and also includes a useful temporary dash mount. It never failed to pinpoint [...]