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		<title>Crashing the $550,000 Gumpert Apollo (It Wasn&#8217;t Me!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason H. Harper &#8211; Jul 22, 2010 (Bloomberg News) You don’t want to be the guy who crashes someone else’s $550,000 supercar. That’s obvious, but never more so than when you watch a half-million-dollar car getting towed from the racetrack into a garage where the frowning owners stand. I wasn’t that guy, thank heaven. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Topless, Baby: Pick Your Convertible</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason H. Harper &#8211; Jul 15, 2010 (Bloomberg) School’s out. Too bad we can’t say the same for work. To my mind, the best shot at recapturing that piquant sense of summertime escape is found in a convertible. Last week four of us jumped in a 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet ($56,850), with the ostensible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open-wheel Thrills: Al Unser Jr., Formula Cars and Stupid Speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I got a mix of my two favorite things — New Mexico and racing. Al Unser Jr., the ex Indy racer from Albuquerque, and his son (also Al), came out to the East Coast to conduct a speed clinic driving open-wheel cars. ABOVE: Video of a lap around NJ Motorsports in the Forula 2000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why This Mustang Kicks the Arse of European Supercars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason H. Harper &#8211; Jul 8, 2010 (Bloomberg News) I have a $150,000 sports car in my parking garage, a handcrafted machine produced overseas in limited numbers. Next to it, I have a U.S.-made Ford Mustang GT, armadas of which will be sold for as little as $30,500. I tested both the day before, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasn&#8217;t That a Lamborghini That Just Whooshed Past?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations! Your membership in the recession has expired. Throw off that sad shade of Gray Austerity which hardly becomes you. It’s time to abuse your bank account. But what to buy? You might consider a diamond-encrusted Victoria’s Secret bra. Or perhaps a Greenwich mansion with a dollar-sign shaped swimming pool. Or a Lamborghini. Yes, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Obituary to the Much Loved Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg) By Jason H. Harper &#8211; Jun 10, 2010 This is a love letter to the manual transmission. Or perhaps its obituary. I understand the emotion that a stick and clutch engenders. Passionate drivers often feel they’re better connected to a car which can be shifted manually. Others go even further. A fellow once told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kia Ain&#8217;t Jokin&#8217; &#8212; Neither Are Its Cars (Moslty)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason H. Harper &#8211; May 27, 2010 (Bloomberg) A friend recently argued that it’s hard to find a bad car these days. He may be right. Boring, generic, ugly and pointless cars? Sure. But astounding crap-cans with engines that sound like a bout of tinnitus and can’t handle a 2 percent grade? Much harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the New BMW 5 Series, and It&#8217;s Big, Fast and Smooooth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 12:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason H. Harper &#8211; May 20, 2010 (Bloomberg) There’s a $1,300 option on the 2011 BMW 5 Series called a head-up display. Your digital speed is projected on the windshield so the driver never has to look down at the gauge. The fighter-jet technology just may pay for itself within the first year of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motoring Italy in the New $220,000 Ferrari 458 Italia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The security gate snaps out of the way and I fulfill a dream: I pull a blood-red Ferrari out of the entrance of the Ferrari factory. Better, it’s the new 458 Italia, the successor to the immensely popular F430 sports car. Almost nobody has driven the mid-engine monster, and fewer still have motored out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest $400,000 Supercar Comes From Lexus&#8230; yes, Lexus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason H Harper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Lexus model starts at $375,000. Toyota Motor Corp., the same parent company that brings you the 51-mile-per-gallon Prius and $13,000 Yaris, will also be producing the LFA, a 202-miles-per-hour, gasoline-evaporating supercar that competes with the $320,000 Ferrari 599 GTB. Talk about a broad family tree. I consider this as I walk around one [...]]]></description>
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