Stuttgart, Germany – The only way to stop the racket is to fully depress the surprisingly stiff clutch. Then, and only then, does all the ruckus from the engine compartment – the rattling clutch release bearing, the gears slapping at one another in rhythm to the engine’s power strokes and God knows what else going [...]

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The 2011 MX-5 is the car with two names – the one Mazda wants us to use, and the one by which most people still call it: Miata. Mazda wants it known as a roadster, which technically it’s not. A roadster is a two-seat open car with side curtains and the MX-5 has (power) roll-up [...]

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The 911 is a car that makes you smile each time you get behind the wheel. Porsche has, in the last couple years, started to incorporate the technology that buyers expect such as touch screen controls, ipod docking to allow all of your information to be downloaded for access while you are driving, bluetooth, etc. [...]

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You get to stage in your life that you want to reward yourself or rid yourself of the minivan days and slip into something a little more comfortable. There are two vehicles that often get a lot of this attention and these are the Porsche 911 and the Mercedes SLK. Porsche continues to update their [...]

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It hums with almost the same equanimity you hear (or don’t hear, actually) in a big Acura sedan. Roll on the power, and the exhaust bites with a hard-edged rasp. Gear-changes are light and smooth – as you’d predict. Nothing in the NS-X 43/57 percent weight distribution (advantage:aft), its 98.4-inch wheelbase, or its double-wishbone suspension [...]

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