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Contents: Special Section Best Of The U.S. (Who says the domestic car is dead? Not us. Here’s our A-list of vehicles that do the auto industry proud. 2011 Cadillac CTS/-V Coupe, 2011 Ford Mustang, 2012 Ford Focus, 2011 Buick Regal, Oshkosh M-ATV); Comparison Test Stimulus Packages (BMW 750i, Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT S, Porsche Panamera S); Specialty File Blast Off! (Jason Heffner makes the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 an even faster rocket); Toys Cash, Love And Tiny Cars (Inside the obsessive-compulsive world of Hot Wheels collectors); Sport NASCAR Pans For Foreign Gold (If Marcos Ambrose is any indication, NASCAR’s good ol’ boys may get more imported competition); Long-Term Test 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI (At last, a VW diesel proves it can be a big player on Main-Street America) Columns – Eddie Alterman (Behold the new Lexus WTF); John Phillips (For Mark Donahue, 1100 hp was ‘far from too much’); David E. Davis Jr. (The Texas 1000: Seeing the Hill Country from a Porsche Panamera) Upfront – Batteries Included (Do short-haul, $200,000 electric supercars make any sense?); Nurburgring Secrets (10 things you (probably) don’t know about the real German Disneyland); The Biggest Loser (A four-cylinder Audi sheds 500 pounds and smokes the V-6); Tech Dept. Runaway Toyotas (Dealing with unintended acceleration); How To: Adjust Your Mirrors To Avoid Blind Spots (Less obvious than it sounds) Drivelines – Preview 2011 Rolls-Royce Ghost (Scary good. As it should be, for the price); Preview 2011 Porsche Cayenne (Turning a nose tackle into a linebacker); Short Take BMW 550i GT (Think of it as the fastest living room you’ll ever drive); Short Take Bentley Continental SuperSports (There’s a reason the seats feel like they came out of Apollo 11); Short Take Toyota 4Runner Trail (Still the backward-looking body-on-frame adventurer); Short Take Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid (The cheapest of the high-luxe greenies and, oh, that La-Z-Boy feel) Etc. – Backfires (A $495 orange, J. Lo’s Porsche is here, good clunker/bad clunker); Gearbox (Ratcheting wrenches); Gearbox DIY (Run your diesel on vegetable oil); What I’d Do Differently (Ron Dennis)
Issue: March 2010
Condition: Very Good