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Aston Martin, Maserati coupes two sides of the same envy-inducing coin
RUMBLE SEATThe Aston Martin V8 Vantage and the Maserati GranTurismo S are beautiful, irrelevant cars -- an evenly matched set of luxury-performance cuff links. The brief on them both for 2009 is simple: more horsepower. The V8 Vantage gets a bigger engine (4.7 vs....Tags: BMW, Football, Luxury Vehicles, Ford, Vehicles
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A Vehicle To Make You Think
Los Angeles TimesIngvil Ladehaug is battery-challenged. Her laptop is running out of juice. Her cellphone is down to its last electrons. But the director of communications for Norway's Think — beginning production in September of perhaps the best electric car in...Tags: Electronics, Plant Openings, Automotive Equipment, California, Vehicles
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Editor's note on Highway 1
Editor's note This is the last issue of Highway 1. Beginning July 18, Dan Neil's column will be in the Friday Business section, along with other auto coverage. Auto coverage continues at The Times' online auto section.Tags: Vehicles, Road Transportation, Transportation
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The Alfa Romeo MiTo finally lives up to the fantasy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhere are the hot-cool small cars, the drive-all-night cars, the panties-on-the-mirror cars? Where they've always been: In Europe. Here's a look at two of them: The Alfa Romeo MiTo and the Fiat 500. Milan, Italy For a generation of American Alfisti, the...Tags: BMW, Vehicles, Dustin Hoffman, Metal and Mineral
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Fiat 500: Budget-wise and Mini-splendored
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhere are the hot-cool small cars, the drive-all-night cars, the panties-on-the-mirror cars? Where they've always been: In Europe. Here's a look at two of them: The Fiat 500 and the Alfa Romeo MiTo. Milan, Italy Cute? Think a bunny in bib overalls, a...Tags: Los Angeles, BMW, Santa Monica, Subaru, Ethics
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As If The A4 Needed To Get Any Better
Los Angeles TimesIn 1995, Audi was hanging by a burning thread in the U.S. Thanks to some spectacularly bad cars and a meta-scandal concerning mysterious "unintended acceleration," U.S. sales of VW's luxury division had spiraled down to about 7,000 cars, and it was no...Tags: BMW, Vehicles, Audi
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Dan Neil on new ways to die in style
Times Staff WriterOne day I will own a hobby farm--10 acres, more or less, with horses, chickens and goats--and on that farm I'll have a rustic garden, where a braided creek will purl and tumble through thickets of wild raspberry. It's in this garden where I'll drink my...Tags: Metal, Death and Dying, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Health and Safety at School
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Roomy Ford Flex Gets Pretty Good Gas Mileage
Los Angeles TimesIn absolute terms, the Ford Flex is squarely brilliant. Here is a six- or seven-passenger spawn hauler with none of the minivan stigma that so evidently traumatizes suburbanites. Actually, with its blacked-out roof pillars and "floating" white or...Tags: Town & Country Corporation, Ford, Nissan, Roger Corman, Chrysler
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2008 Porsche GT2: Brute almighty
Newsday Staff WriterTo love the Porsche GT2 is to embrace its malign indifference to your well-being. Basically a Porsche Motorsport version of the 911 Turbo (or turbocharged version of the track-ready GT3 RS, if you like), the GT2 is the most hard-core 911 ever to wear a...Tags: Vehicles, Home Depot Incorporated
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"Pontiac G8: Bargain 5-series? Not Really.
The Pontiac G8 follows in the wide-track footprints of the now-discontinued Pontiac GTO, which was a badge job of the Australian Holden Monaro. The sedan is available with a 3.6-liter, 256-hp V6 (paired with five-speed automatic), but the marquee...Tags: BMW, Vehicles
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