If you want to be seen, like Steve McQueen, you sport your car as if it were a suit, tailor made to your skills.
If you have the car in Sport mode, the SL is capable of respectable and nicely edgy sporting violence.
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New car models like the Chevrolet Equinox, that combine car and sport utility vehicle elements for more efficiency, led the sales surge, up by 60% last month.
It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.
Sprung with double wishbones, coil springs and adaptive monotube dampers, the car offers a choice of three drive modes Tour, Sport and Track with escalating thresholds for the car's engine, transmission, suspension and stability logic.
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"Our research shows that one-third of potential car buyers are motor sport fans, " said Jamie Allison, director of Ford racing.
Several of my colleagues over the years who were retired business executives or selected stock car racing as their sport of choice for its down-to-earth appeal.
Switching on the car's "Sport" mode only recalibrates the lousiness.
Crossovers sport utility vehicles built on a car chassis are now so popular that all five of the top-selling crossovers outsell the best-selling minivan, according to figures compiled for Forbes.com by Autodata, Inc.
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone does not believe major car manufacturers would quit the sport over the standard engine issue.
RX300, which is really a basic passenger car fitted out to look like a sport-utility vehicle.
William Clay Ford Jr. thinks that he can run a car company that produces gas-guzzling sport utilities vehicles and still be a committed environmentalist.
There had been uncertainty over its future in F1 at the end of a year that has seen three of the major road-car manufacturers end their involvement in the sport because of difficult global economic conditions.
EU, however, is deterring the world's leading car companies from becoming more involved in the sport.
Ford thinks it may have a hit on its hands with its forthcoming Edge crossover, a sleek car-based and relatively fuel-efficient sport utility.
Just a year and a half into Gillett's reign RPM nearly sank amid the global financial crisis, the troubles of U.S. car manufacturers who pay for much of the sport and Gillett's debt problems.
Mr Warner sponsored a stock-car team, thus linking his name with a sport that a quarter of Americans adore but which the coastal elite mostly ignore.
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Vettel says money is not a motivation for him and that he loves the sport so much that he would pay to drive an F1 car.
At the same time it is weak in hot segments, like crossovers--vehicles that combine the softer ride and better mileage of a passenger car with the four-wheel drive of a sport utility vehicle.
The most accessible village by car, and the only Cinque Terre settlement to sport a tourist beach, is Monterosso, which is the furthest west and least quintessential of the quintet (it was briefly ditched from the group in the 1940s).
"I'm aiming to drive the car at the first test, " Webber told BBC Sport.
Volvo, for instance, which recently added a sport utility vehicle to its lineup, will soon get a small car and another SUV.
The car is still silky smooth in corners, although in Sport you can actually get the back tires to spin after a downshift.
Chief executive Takeo Fukui announced at a news conference in Tokyo that the company would be willing to sell the team and will withdraw from the 2009 competition if no buyer is found by the end of Decemebr -- ending the Japanese car giant's nine-year involvement in the sport.
Mr. Morar, the Savannah car-shopper, is still in the market for a BMW sport-utility vehicle.
Still, the Lexus will give you more of a traditional luxury-car experience while the Honda feels (and sounds) more like a sport sedan.
Like the V-Coupe's, the V-Wagon's stability-control system has a sport map, and once engaged, it makes it hilariously easy to rotate the car under power.
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To understand the importance of the mix, says Max Warburton of Bernstein Research, compare the cost of producing a small car such as the popular Fiat 500 with that of making a hulking sport-utility vehicle such as the Audi Q7.
"We always kept believing in the team, and the car, and I kept believing in myself, " the German told BBC Sport.
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