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July 3, 2012
Endowment at UC Merced will fund renowned scholar's innovative research into how people understand and generate meaning. Cognitive science Professor Teenie Matlock has been named the McClatchy Chair in...
July 2, 2012
June 20, 2012
Math and physics major John Li will travel to China this summer as a Strauss Foundation Public Service Scholar to perform magic for orphaned children.When a deadly earthquake shook the Sichuan province of his native...
June 13, 2012
UC Merced Latino Leadership Initiative participants already planning their
future impact on the San Joaquin Valley
. Five University of California, Merced, undergraduate students have been selected to attend...
June 11, 2012
Professor Fred Wolf is investigating how alcohol affects communication between neurons and glial cells with the support of a National Institutes of Health grant.Professor Fred Wolf's research brings new meaning to the...
June 6, 2012
Graduate student Michael Eissinger recently published a book about the Madera County community of Fairmead.An academic focus on the Central Valley region's historically African-American communities brought Michael...
June 1, 2012
May 29, 2012
Professor Jing Xu's findings published in Nature Communications last month identify a novel pathway for regulating nanomotor function, and suggest the possibility of using cellular cue to rescuing cell health.A...
May 23, 2012
Fidel Cervantes, who was invited to attend the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Public Policy and Leadership Conference at Harvard University, serves on Delhi Unified School District's school board.Fidel...
May 21, 2012
Graduate student Alexandra Paxton finds opinionated students, puts them in a room together and tells them to argue about a hot-button issue.
Then she...
May 17, 2012
Siyu WuIt's no surprise UC Merced graduate student Siyu Wu's research — rooted in mechanical engineering — has veered toward the environmental. Wu, who grew up in China, was raised by parents who felt strongly that the...
May 15, 2012
UC Merced researchers shed light on how bone density may change a person's immune system, a finding that could impact how scientists try to combat bone-related disease, such as osteoporosis. Researchers at...
May 14, 2012
UC Merced Professor Katherine Steele Brokaw, left, directs music theater lecturer and professional opera singer Jenni Samuelson and student Justin Choi for the upcoming debut of 'Ugh the Duck.'"Ugh the Duck," a...
May 12, 2012
The university honors more than 700 graduates as former Lt. Gov. and campus advocate Cruz Bustamante addresses an estimated crowd of 7,700 at Commencement 2012. A joyous throng of 776 degree candidates of the...
May 10, 2012
Grecia Sanchez, a Merced native, majored in sociology with a minor in political science and plans to attend law school.Grecia Sanchez and Blaine Hartsock know they're more than lucky. Out of dozens of UC Merced seniors...
May 8, 2012
Alma Fausto, who spent her four years at UC Merced working for the student-run newspaper The Prodigy, is heading to graduate school at the Columbia School of Journalism. When Alma Fausto first arrived at UC Merced in...
May 7, 2012
Kyle D. Hoffman to continue 28-year career in the UC system as UC Merced's chief fundraiser; will join campus in late May, pending approval by the UC Board of Regents. Chancellor Dorothy Leland of the...
May 4, 2012
Students hike near Dana Glacier in Yosemite as part of an Outdoor Experience Program outing.UC Merced sits in an ideal spot for students, faculty and staff who want to engage in an active, outdoor lifestyle.
May 2, 2012
Jesse Anaya, who is set to graduate on May 12, said UC Merced has been the "perfect incubator" for his research interests. UC Merced senior Jesse Anaya answered his phone one day to hear an unfamiliar voice ask, "Are...
April 30, 2012
After two months on the job, UC Merced's first full-time medical director has already entrenched himself in campus life and understanding student...
April 27, 2012
Micah ChandlerLike many others, 38-year-old Micah Chandler of Merced found himself laid off and without options after the economy nosedived in 2007.
When he couldn't find work, Chandler's wife suggested he consider...
April 25, 2012
UC Merced's Long Range Development Plan earns prestigious ranking for green design and construction; Logistical Support/Safety Facility achieves LEED Gold certification. The University of California, Merced,...
April 23, 2012
UC Merced was awarded the Allied Professional Award from the Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus this month at the group's annual ceremony in Washington, D.C.
April 20, 2012
Trevor AlbertsonWhen Trevor Albertson ('09) started as the California deputy secretary for veterans services last summer, his longtime focus on higher education came in handy right away.
Considering his...
April 18, 2012
Members of UC Merced's Formula SAE team are getting ready to enter into the Formula SAE Michigan event at Michigan International Speedway in May. UC Merced's Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) team built its...
April 13, 2012
As the new director of UC Merced's Yosemite Field Station, Becca Fenwick will combine her love of the outdoors and of the educational opportunities such settings can offer.
April 11, 2012
Cruz Bustamante will address the Class of 2012 during the university's seventh commencement ceremony
. Former California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante will deliver the keynote address at the University of...
April 10, 2012
Research Week at UC Merced highlighted by student research poster competition, plus enlightening lectures and symposia featuring a number of distinguished researchers. From the campus' own undergraduate and...
April 9, 2012
More than two dozen students are stretching their imagination and building entrepreneurial skills in the first-ever Mobile App Challenge at UC Merced...
April 6, 2012
Graduate student Andrea Rodarte describes some of the tools she uses in her physics research. When Andrea Rodarte began studying physics, she first wanted to look to the stars for answers. Instead, she's finding them...
April 4, 2012
Fulbright's Franco-American Commission will fund UC Merced Professor Monica Medina's research in France on the codependency of marine algae and tropical coral reefs. Mónica Medina, a professor in the...
April 3, 2012
Executive Leadership Seminar aims to educate the world's park and protected area leaders, with stops in the Bay Area, at UC Merced and at Yosemite National Park. More than two dozen executives from around the...
March 29, 2012
Graduate student Marco Valesi's dissertation is combining research and photography that focuses on urban art in Brazil, Italy and San Francisco's Mission District.Graduate student Marco Valesi is turning a scholarly...
March 27, 2012
UC Merced biochemistry Professor Henry Jay Forman discovers that tobacco smoke activates an enzyme that causes cancer cells to spread to other parts of the body. Cigarette smoke cannot only cause cancer, but it's...
March 23, 2012
UC Merced's Aki Chambers led the California Pacific Conference in scoring and was name to the all-conference first team.The field is set for more success next year after UC Merced student-athletes earned top honors and...
March 20, 2012
UC Merced researchers show that a protein found in humans stops regeneration when disabled in planaria, providing a potential strategy for preventing the growth of cancer cells. A flatworm known for its ability to...
March 19, 2012
Peter Balakian, who brought renewed attention to the Armenian Genocide, will be the 2012 recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance. Peter Balakian, an award-...
March 15, 2012
UC Merced's Center for Educational Partnerships receives
funding to expand programming in local high schools
. The University of California, Merced, has announced a $33,000 donation from Citi to support its...
March 14, 2012
UC Merced Professor Shawn Newsam receives prestigious National Science Foundation award to fund work on gathering geographic insight from user-submitted photos and videos. Mapping what is where on the earth's...
March 8, 2012
UC Merced professor contributes to a chapter in today's U.S. Surgeon General's report that concludes that despite restrictions, tobacco advertising continues to influence young smokers. Cigarette advertising and...
March 6, 2012
February 29, 2012
Leading Popol Vuh scholar Michael Coe will deliver a keynote address at 6:30 p.m. March 2 at the arts center to accompany the gallery opening.The Popol Vuh, the ancient Mayan creation myth, has permeated several...
February 28, 2012
Professor Lara Kueppers is studying how trees in the mountains of Colorado will adapt to climate change.
Climate change is leading to higher...
February 24, 2012
Doctoral candidate Kandice Soraya Grote is researching the cognitive benefits of bilingualism in children.Born in Nebraska to a Persian mother and a father whose military duty took the family to Europe for much of her...
February 22, 2012
Professor Boaz IlanUC Merced applied math Professor Boaz Ilan is a major contributor to a national research team exploring a novel way to use fractal geometry to improve the production of electricity in solar...
February 15, 2012
Henry O. Nightingale, an abolitionist and Union soldier, wrote in his diary about his firsthand account of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre. Diaries belonging to a Civil War soldier who witnessed the...
February 9, 2012
Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani, a graduate student with the Quantitative and Systems Biology group, is set to graduate this year. Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani came to UC Merced to help reduce the threat of harmful diseases through...
February 7, 2012
February 7, 2012
Professor Ashlie MartiniProfessor Ashlie Martini was looking for the chance to make a difference when she took a post at UC Merced.
February 6, 2012
New center aims to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley's most underserved residents by empowering them to engage in research that supports their community's issues. An innovative community-university...
February 3, 2012
Four projects will increase campus' physical space by 25 percent, adding nearly 270,000 gross square feet. Planned Science and Engineering Building 2 (rendering)UC Merced is entering a significant new phase...
January 30, 2012
About 180 people attended a conference at UC Merced that connected researchers with community members working to improve the lives of the San Joaquin Valley's young people.
The December conference, "Building Healthy...
January 27, 2012
January 24, 2012
University of California's online instruction program is a systemwide effort that aims to explore and develop the use of online education in UC's undergraduate curriculum. UC Merced is the first campus...
January 23, 2012
UC Merced engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang receives National Science Foundation's CAREER Award to improve visual tracking abilities in machines. Engineering Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang of the University of...
January 20, 2012
UC Merced honored for utilizing new, effective and innovative systems to evaluate and demonstrate student outcomes. The University of California, Merced, has been awarded the 2012 Council for Higher Education...
January 19, 2012
A team of UC Merced professors and students discovered that changing the shape of a solar concentrator significantly increases its efficiency, bringing its use closer to reality. A team of researchers at the...
January 18, 2012
Dean of Natural Sciences Juan Meza began his tenure at UC Merced in September, and he wasted no time in meeting with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff to learn about the areas where the school is...
January 12, 2012
UC Merced receives more than 15,000 applications, a nearly 10 percent boost over 2011. More than 15,000 undergraduate students applied to UC Merced for Fall 2012, up nearly 10 percent from 2011.The University of...
January 10, 2012
Professor Jessica L. Trounstine said there will be two political science subfields for graduate students to study at UC Merced. Graduate students interested in studying at UC Merced will have one more discipline to...


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Krystal vice president of development Brian Blosser said, "We wanted to build a store that is as special as Ringgold is. The new more efficient design is geared towards speed of service and customer satisfaction."
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The new restaurant will be located at 5337 Alabama Highway in Ringgold. When it opens in April, it will employ about 35 employees.
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How does New York stack up against the rest of the country on key health measures and outcomes? The data shows that despite a much higher spend per capita on health care, New Yorkers are not necessarily healthier than the average American.
New York, NY (PRWEB) January 08, 2013
ElderBranch has taken a look at the data on health care in New York State and pulled together some statistics from The Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts website (statehealthfacts.org). See the full article and accompanying graphic here.
On a per capita basis, health spending on New Yorkers is over 20% higher than the U.S. as a whole. Some part of the higher spend is likely driven by the higher cost of services in the state versus other parts of the country. However, it is disappointing to see that such a steep difference in per capita spend does not translate into better health outcomes. Overall, cancer incidence and deaths due to major diseases (including Alzheimer's, diabetes and heart disease) are not that different in New York State versus the country overall.
Another interesting data point is around Medicaid coverage. While the percent of people living in poverty is approximately the same in New York compared to the U.S. overall, 27% of New Yorkers receive Medicaid benefits compared to only 20% of people nationally. One would expect to see roughly similar percentages (the percentage of people on Medicaid should approximate the percentage of people living in poverty). This discrepancy underscores what is already commonly known – that New York State's Medicaid eligibility rules are more lax (i.e. offer coverage to a wider group of people) than many other states'.
On a positive note, nursing home care in New York is quite strong when compared to the U.S. overall. Both deficiencies, and specifically serious deficiencies, tend to be lower in New York, where the average number of deficiencies per home is 7.2 (versus 9.4 nationally) and the percentage of homes with serious deficiencies is 17.7% (versus 23.4% nationally). While it is true that nursing home care is comparatively strong in New York, it has unfortunately been getting worse over time (see our earlier report, New York Health Care Quality – Just "Average"?).
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Traveling Spout Bridge Helps Make Ready To Eat Meals More Efficient to Manufacture
Food manufacturers can improve the product presentation of their ready-to-eat meals with the addition of a Hinds-Bock Servo diving and traveling spout bridge. The bridge moves the filling spouts with the continuously moving trays during the filler cycle.Manufacturers can improve and change the appearance of their finished product within the trays via a simple operator interface panel program change which tunes the amount of product spread within the tray allows.
The simple pump filler's adjustability gives manufacturers a modern filling system that allows for speed. Products that can be used with this piece of equipment are those as thin as gravy to thick mashed potatoes as well as particulate products like macaroni and cheese or fettuccini alfredo.
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May is National Water Safety Month and our Y is joining with Ys across the country to raise awareness of the critical need for children of all ages to know how to be safe in the water.On May 17, 2013 State Representative Becky Corbin presented a proclamation designating May Drowning Prevention and Water Safety Month in a ceremony at our Brandywine Y.
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Thursday, May 30 - June 2Strawberry Festival with the Brandywine Hospital to benefit the Coatesville Youth Initiative (this event is on the grounds of the Brandywine Hospital)
Friday, May 31Brandywine Y Blood Drive7:00 am - 7:00 pm
Saturday, June 1Girls on the Run 5K and STRIDE ChallengeHenderson High School9:00 amClick here to learn more.Friday, June 14Jennersville Theatre CompanyBroadway Through the Decades7:00 pm
Saturday, June 15Jennersville Theatre CompanyBroadway Through the Decades2:00 pm; 7:00 pm
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The Outdoor Pool at Airport Rd. will close today at 5pm due to wind and cool temperatures. Weather permitting, the Outdoor Pool will reopen tomorrow from 10am to 8pm. The indoor pools are open, so come on over!!!
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Somewhere on the continuum between Toyota's Prius C and the new million-dollar gas-electric hypercars from Porsche, McLaren and Ferrari (really), there's a zone that separates hybrids as economy transportation from hybrids as ultimate speed sleds. We know that electric motors can help small internal-combustion engines stretch a gallon of gasoline from, say, 30 miles to 50 or more, at least at low speeds. But for big gas engines, add-on electric motors are now providing extra wallop—carving a second or two off the 0-to-100 MPH sprint, for example. The GS450h sits in the zone that divides these types of hybrid cars; it enjoys some of both benefits.
There are in fact two extra electric motors buried within this Lexus. One under the hood largely services the batteries; it's the second one, built into the differential, that feeds more oomph to the back wheels. The gas V-6 up front makes 286 horsepower; the electric motor at the rear can jack that up to a combined total of 338 HP. Lexus doesn't publish torque figures, but the electrics provide an impressive shove of acceleration.
There's another surprise here too: a CVT, or continuously variable transmission—something usually found only on economy cars and riding lawn mowers. Lexus, however, calls it a controlled variable transmission, and its stellar behavior justifies the new name. Not till I tried to get frisky with it in manual mode did I realize it wasn't a normal transmission with distinct gears. The point of a CVT is to keep the engine in its best operating range, and this one does a good job here as well. We averaged 27 miles per gallon overall and the GS450h's 34 highway MPG rating for 2013 seems realistic. These are very good numbers for a large and sumptuous sedan that can dust off slower traffic—and also creep through a mall parking lot under electric power only.
Despite its quickness and the capable handling of its adaptive suspension, this isn't a sports sedan. (For that, you'll want the lighter, less-expensive and more nimble GS350 F Sport.) It's an updated luxury cruiser for today's congested and connectivity-obsessed highway culture. The GS450h is as comfortable tied up in city traffic—where the engine shuts itself off, to save gas and cut exhaust emissions—as it is flying serenely across the great plains on I-80.
Lexus also has done a fine job of submerging the unpleasant parts of a driving a hybrid. The engine stop-start feature is now barely discernable and response is immediate; the throttle doesn't feel like it's on a rubber band; the brakes bite down in linear fashion; and the car's balance is not upset by the addition of several hundred pounds of electric motors and batteries.
The GS450h is a complex and highly sophisticated piece of mechanical, electrical and ergonomic engineering, but Lexus has boiled everything down to apparent simplicity. (For instance, in normal mode, the big dial next to the speedometer simply indicates "charge," "eco" or "power." But selecting Sport mode not only amps up the electric drive motor, it also magically converts that dial into a tachometer.) The unique mouse-type computer controller is easier to operate than many other luxury cars' "user interfaces," and the split-screen computer monitor is among the largest and most readable out there.
Overall, the instrument and control panels are so elegant that they're both non-intimidating and downright attractive, and the redesigned cabin is as tasteful and comfortable as we'd expect from Lexus. The optional blond bamboo trim contrasts beautifully with rich, dark-toned leather and synthetics. I don't recall gripping a bamboo steering wheel before, but it's highly agreeable.
At $59,000 to start and here optioned up to a full $70,000, the 2013 GS450h isn't just good "for a hybrid," it's a good car, full stop. In fact, it's a good deal more than just good. If I were shopping for a luxury sedan with less than Powerball money, the GS450h would make my personal short list—even though it's a hybrid.
Rectification. Last week's column about the good-news, bad-news Enclave drew a quick response from Buick: "All Enclaves are assembled in Lansing. It is exported to China. We do not build or assemble Enclaves in China." There you have it; shame on me—and my source.
Just when we thought it was safe to go back to Detroit, after the hard lessons carmakers learned in the Great Contraction, along comes the Buick Enclave. I don't mean to suggest that it's a new car—the Enclave debuted as a 2008 model, which explains a lot—but that it already needs a pavement-up makeover.
The good news, early in '08, just before Capitalism collapsed, was that the Enclave was a modern unit-body, three-row, front-wheel/all-wheel-drive crossover vehicle that managed its great bulk pretty well. (It replaced obsolete Buick SUVs that had been based on minivans and pickup trucks.) The bad news was that the world then changed almost overnight, leaving the Enclave as either the first of the new breed from Detroit or the last of the old school.
Still, the Enclave has been a big hit in the US and also in China, where Buick is a brand that the newly affluent aspire to. Enclaves are now built in Michigan and in Shanghai.
Here at home, however, the Enclave now seems huge (six feet tall and wide, and almost 17 feet long) and heavy (21/2 tons with AWD). The good news? Six, seven or even eight people can sit in comfort, if we banish the kids to the third row. Our sample Enclave had two adjustable "captain's chairs" in the second row, with an aisle inbetween to row three. Fold all the rear seats down, and the Enclave can pack a Smart ForTwo Electric as a spare.
More good news: From day one, the Enclave has had a thoroughly up-to-date 6-cylinder engine, now tuned for 286 horsepower and abundant torque. The bad news is that this motor is as thirsty as a V-8. The EPA predicts 16 to 22 miles per gallon, city and highway; we got 17 overall. And while other cars are getting 7-, 8- and even 9-speed transmissions, the Enclave has six speeds—but the transmission shifts cleanly and always seems to be in the right gear. (It also can be shifted manually by thumb, via a rocker switch in the side of the shifter knob.) The Enclave sails the highways smoothly and quietly, although with the numbest steering since canal barges went from poles to tillers.
The spacious, airy cabin is nicely laid out, but the trim is that eye-searing chromed plastic that appeals to magpies. The Enclave Premium has a computer screen and a full suite of safety and convenience features—everything from automatic multi-zone climate control to lane-warning and cross-traffic alerts—but the information appears in that squared-off, electroluminescent green type last seen in Mercury space capsules. Furthermore, I sprained a finger learning how to stab the control panel just right—after I'd flipped back and forth through the manual just to figure out how to reset the mileage.
Lighting up the motor requires sticking a metal key into a slot and twisting it. Old-fashioned, and then the key fob is in the way of your right knee. But we don't have to hold the key till the ignition catches—just make the contact and let go. Again: One foot in the past, one in the present (but hardly the future).
OK, final example: The good news? The Enclave may be old-school, but it is competent; a buyer can say, "It's not a car, it's a major household appliance—I need the room, it gets the job done, it's comfortable, I'll dicker on the price and it'll have a warranty." If Enclaves cost $35,000, there'd be little or no bad news here at all. But the starting price of this Premium AWD model is $47,625—and the sticker on our sample (sitting down, are we?) is $53,155. Good lord. Do you know what else you can buy for that kind of money?
We all want to root for the home team, and some of the new-generation Buicks—the Regal and LaCrosse sedans, for instance, and the chubby little Encore—are huge improvements over Buicks of yore, but this one . . . well, let's be charitable and ask GM please to re-do the Enclave, and soon. This should be Detroit's answer to the Audi Q7, not a parade float.
As much as I like to drive, and as dynamically brilliant as this car is—except for one or two little hiccups—the best seat in the house is in the back. This is the "L" variant of Audi's flagship A8 sedan, longer by 5.1 inches. That doesn't sound like much, but those inches were applied behind the front seats. The rear of the A8 was hardly cramped to begin with; now there's room back there to land a hang glider.
With the Rear Seat Comfort Package, both back seats are independently adjustable as well as heated and cooled. Furthermore, the front passenger seat can be controlled from the back, so the CEO can motor it forward—maybe squeezing her executive V-P a bit in the shotgun seat, but gaining that much more space behind. Keep on ticking the option boxes and the rear seats become more and more luxurious, topping out with recline and massage features, power sunshades, a fridge and dual 10-inch computer screens.
By now we've spent the price of an economy car in the back seats. But the pilot's seat of an A8L is a nice place to be too. Not only is it adjustable (18 or 22 ways), heated, cooled and massaging, it also provides access to what's under the hood: A silky twin-turbocharged 4-liter V-8 that squeezes out 420 horsepower and 444 pounds of torque. All the torque is available at just 1,500 RPM, so a mere dip of the driver's toe accelerates this cruiser like a sports car. (A hushed and serene sports car.) The swell of power flows through an 8-speed transmission that shifts almost seamlessly, while the adaptive air suspension and the Quattro all-wheel drive absorb bumps and straighten out corners just as we'd expect them to.
Mere performance, comfort and refinement are no longer enough to impress the well-heeled, however, and so Germany's Big Three are locked in an arms race to overwhelm us with techno-tronics. BMW has iDrive, Mercedes-Benz has COMAND, and Audi calls its computerized control system MMI, for Multi Media In your face—sorry, Interface. It's a dial/buttons/screen combo that adjusts most of the car's functions, from suspension and steering to the five distinct movable parts of each front seatback, and accesses the array of connectivity features. Audi has now fed Google Earth into its satnav, to provide zoom-in maps—alongside traffic, weather and news alerts as well as AM/FM/XM radio, all under manual or voice command. An A8 is even a mobile WiFi hotspot.
MMI can cause heart palpitations among seniors, but anyone comfortable with a smartphone should be able to cope. Furthermore, once everything is set, we're left with easy one-click operations to toggle between Normal and Sport driving modes, pick radio stations, and work the windshield wipers or seat heaters.
Given what Audi has invested in digitalism, I'm almost abashed to complain about something so humdrum as driving, but let's go back to the snags I mentioned: From a full stop, the A8 sits for a moment before it responds to the throttle. I thought this might be the fuel-saving engine stop-start feature, but disabling it didn't solve the problem. I suspect the lag is programmed into the transmission to allow the motor time to restart—even if it isn't needed. Annoying. I'd also like a bit more self-centering in the steering as the car comes out of a corner—a slight lack that might be due to the longer wheelbase, or even the four-season tires on our car.
Audi A8L 4.0T prices start at $87,200. Our sample came with extra driver assists (active cruise control with automatic stop & go, various alert sensors and a 360-degree, top-view camera) plus LED lights, a panoramic sunroof, front and rear Comfort Packages and other options, but the sticker was still slightly below a hundred grand. It can, of course, go well north of that. (A8s also come with 333HP V-6 or 500HP W12 engines, priced accordingly, and there's an S8 sport model too.)
If you're wondering how to fit such a vehicle into your budget, here's a suggestion: Get rid of the company jet, lay off the pilots and cancel the maintenance contract, and then order one of these stretch Audis. What the heck, get two of them! Even with a full-time chauffeur, and even if you fly first class when you do need a plane, you'll save 20 or 30 million bucks and be more comfortable too, especially in bad weather.
Most of what Toyota builds is "product." Very good product, to be sure, but—from the Camry to the RAV4 and even the out-there Prius—Toyotas are mainstream: solid and reliable, nearly invisible and generally non-aspirational. We don't lust after Toyotas; we buy them by the millions because we need Toyotas to get through life.
Yet here is the Toyota FR-S, as in Front-engine, Rear-drive Sport, a brand-new niche vehicle that was jointly hatched by Toyota and Subaru. Maybe to distance itself from such a fringe item, Toyota sells its version of the car as a Scion, the brand it invented for Gen-Y types who don't see themselves as boring old Toyota owners.
(The plan is, Get 'em young with Scion, then move 'em into a Toyota when the offspring arrive, with Lexus waiting as the prize for career success.)
Subaru owners who look under the hood of an FR-S will find a familiar flat-four engine, its cylinders set horizontally, two on each side, instead of in a vee or an upright row. Such a low-profile "boxer" motor helps drop a car's mass toward the pavement, which improves the handling. This one is tuned for 200 horsepower and 151 lb-ft of torque—which may not be all the power we think we want, but in a car that weighs only about 2,800 pounds, it's plenty.
Another benefit of light weight is economy. After a day of whooping around on corkscrew back roads, we were astonished to find that we'd averaged 28 miles per gallon of gas. (Toyota claims as much as 34 MPG on the highway.) We also realized that the FR-S could handle more power without getting twisted out of shape or over-running its excellent brakes. So it's just a matter of time before one or both makers sticks a turbocharger onto this motor and offers an uprated "R" model.
Our FR-S came with the optional 6-speed automatic. Say what you want about slushboxes in sports cars, but this is a good one. It has three settings—snow, normal and sport—and can be shifted manually with the stick or with paddles on the steering wheel. As an automatic, it's rarely in the wrong gear; in M mode, it doggedly holds each gear until the driver calls for the next one, and a rev-matching blip of the throttle comes with each downshift. The quick, high-effort steering wants both hands on the wheel, so the paddles are useful. Just pretend it's a sequential racing transmission—or get the 6-speed manual gearbox and learn to use a clutch.
As one might expect, the FR-S's ride is hard—we feel every ripple in the pavement—but it is reasonably composed, so potholes don't knock us unconscious. The payoff comes in sharp turn-in, lots of control through fast corners, and occasional feelings of heady self-congratulation.
One might also expect mild claustrophobia, but the cabin turns out to be comfortably wide, deep and roomy, at least up front. There are back "seats," complete with belts, but at best they are padded repositories for your tablet and your lunch. Fold down the rear seatbacks, however, and a snowboard fits under the trunklid.
Just like boring cars, modern sports cars have to meet all sorts of safety standards, so tell your parents that the FR-S is stuffed with airbags and all the electronic nannies—ABS, VSC, TRAC, EBD, BA, SST at al.—found in Mom's Camry. They're there when we need them and unobtrusive otherwise (and if you wish to indulge in anti-social behavior, the stability control can be switched off). The FR-S is also quite up-to-date in other ways, with features like LED tail lights, halogen reflector headlamps and all the hands-free connectivity stuff that you Gen-Yers can't live without.
Whatever your definition of a sports car—front-engine, mid-engine, rear drive, clutch or clutchless, hardtop or softtop—there is one thing that a sports car absolutely must deliver: that sense of being hard-wired directly to your butt. After many gratifying miles in the FR-S, I believe a small portion of my jeans is still stuck to the driver's seat, and not just because of the clingy upholstery in those form-fitting buckets. The FR-S is a proper sports car—even if it is a Toyota (or a Subaru).
Cadillac's penchant for inscrutable model names—SRX, CTS, ATS, XTS and, soon, ELR—leaves us confused. What happened to traditional American car names, like Impala, Riviera, Mustang, Seville? I, for one, would be happy to call this car a . . . Milano! No, that's a cookie. Right, let's call it the Argonaut. The Wensleydale.
Well, maybe not. But this new sedan is making a real stab at elegance, and "XTS" just doesn't deliver the message. Look at those lines; someone bought the stylists at Cadillac their first French curve! From every angle, the car is sculpted, almost sensuous, yet masculine and commanding. It's only four inches shorter than an S-class Merc, but sleeker and much less bulky. (It seems even smaller from the cockpit because the hood drops away out of sight.)
In the modern automotive idiom, the XTS has a 304-horsepower engine, but it's a six, not a V-8. Front- or all-wheel-drive is available. The automatic transmission has six speeds and a sport setting, and also can be shifted manually with paddles behind the wheel. The steering is light but precise. The suspension is supervised by Cadillac's Magnetic Ride Control, which adjusts the shock absorbers near-instantaneously to varying pavement conditions. It transmits plenty of road feel to the driver—sometimes a bit too much. The front brakes are from Brembo, the Italian company that supplies most of the world's supercar stoppers.
The cabin, especially in this $62,000 Platinum AWD edition, is a fine place to be. With each new car, Cadillac's interiors inch closer to good taste and real luxury. Design-wise, there are only two goofs here: The badge on the grille is way too big—it looks like a bolo tie on a tuxedo—and the electronic instrumentation is better suited to a Vegas pinball machine.
The XTS is stuffed with active and passive safety features—make a wrong move or get too close to anything larger than a chipmunk, and something flashes or beeps or even vibrates one or another of your butt cheeks. It's like a particularly clumsy pickpocket going for your wallet with a joy buzzer in his hand.
In some areas, Cadillac is trying too hard. For example, the new CUE—Cadillac User Experience—touchscreen and the various command systems in this car are capable of many tasks, but I had to get out the manual just to reset the odometer. Sure, owners will get used to these things, but Cadillac is being too clever by half here. (To be fair, almost every luxury carmaker is guilty of this to some degree. It took BMW years to civilize its notorious iDrive controller.)
Cadillac also has been trying hard with the ride, handling and performance of its cars. With the CTS and ATS and the SRX crossover, it seems Cadillac wants to out-German the Germans, even going so far as to brag about their lap times at the Nürburgring racetrack. After all the ill-handling, poorly made land yachts of yore, this is an enormous improvement, but not all Cadillacs need to be so hard-edged.
A flagship Cadillac should be a refined, large sedan capable of purring down 5th Avenue in high style and then blitzing serenely from Manhattan to Boston in two hours flat—with the CEO and the chairman of the board swapping grandchildren photos on their iPads in the back. The American Rolls-Royce, as it were, but at a quarter to one-fifth the price.
The XTS comes closer to this mark than any other present Cadillac save possibly the giant Escalade—but that's an old-school SUV long overdue for a remake. So let's tune the XTS's ride for a little more suppleness and add a bit more isolation; chip the engine for at least another 50 pounds of torque; swap this transmission for one of the new super-smooth, highly responsive 8-speed boxes; and tone down the digital readouts. While you're at it, Cadillac, how about a stretch "L" model with another six inches of leg room in the back? Oh, and find a proper name.
The XTS is a good start. Now let's finish the job—even if the price climbs by a few grand. Nobody wants a fake Mercedes-Benz; we want a real Cadillac!
To gaze upon Hyundai's shapely Azera is to realize how few cars today are truly pretty. In a market that values fuel economy, luxury, green-ness, low lease payments or whatever, "pretty" evidently doesn't cut it any longer. Even Ferraris look a bit grotesque these days. The Azera, though—that's pretty. No gaping grille, no swollen goiters, no painful angles; it is thoroughly harmonious.
But, as mother used to warn us, pretty is as pretty does. As it happens, though, the Azera does quite well, thank you.
Till the Genesis appeared, in '08, the Azera was Hyundai's flagship, its most expensive car. Then both were upstaged by the luxury-liner Equus, and the Azera became merely a "premium" car, albeit one that gets close to 30 MPG on the highway.
Today Hyundai offers us 13 models with two, three, four or five doors at prices that stretch from $15,000 to $60,000. Most of them are aimed at families, students, young professionals and Capitalists—automakers' prime quarry—but now Hyundai has a Boomers' blue-plate special. The Azera is for grownups who no longer have expense accounts, but still have expense-account tastes.
The Azera backs up its looks with a creamy V-6 tuned for 293 horsepower and connected to a 6-speed automatic transmission that can be shifted manually. Suddenly dumping this much power into the front wheels inevitably causes torque steer, but Hyundai has engineered the mad zigzagging down to a mild, easily controllable pull. (We retirees rarely open the throttle that quickly anyway. Unless we're vintage racing.) Furthermore, understeer—the tendency of a nose-heavy FWD car to plow through tight corners—is non-existent, at least in public. On the interstate, the Azera holds its speed and line effortlessly; in town and on secondary roads, the handling, steering, launching and stopping become invisible.
With its spacious charcoal-and-cream interior, the Azera is as satisfying and as "premium" inside as it is outside. No one should be stymied by the controls on the steering wheel and the center console, or by the satnav. The seats are excellent. In the front, the headrests can be adjusted fore-and-aft; rear passengers get two semi-bucket seats plus reading lights, soft-touch grab handles, a fold-down armrest and ample foot and leg room. Driving or simply being driven in the Azera is an exercise in comfort and serenity.
Then we tried something different: I sat in the car with the spec sheet in hand and mentally deleted all the added features. The 19-inch wheels became standard 18s; the dual-pane skyroof with its electric shade was replaced by featureless headliner. The audible backup sensors disappeared, along with one of the driver's-seat adjustments, the seat memory, the 3-stage cooling in the front seats and the powered tilt-and-telescope on the steering wheel. The rear-window shades went away. So did with the mood lighting, the carpet floor mats, the higher-grade stereo, the Xenon headlights and the iPod cable. The sticker price dropped by $4,100.
Was the "stripper" Azera still a premium car? Was it worth $32,250? For that matter, was the loaded car worth $37,225?
There's no denying the desirability of some of those extras—I'm partial to the huge sunroof and the high-intensity headlights—but what remained was impressive. If the parking sensors are gone, there's a still a backup camera. The computer screen and GPS stay. The sound system now has seven speakers instead of 12, but all the wireless connectivity remains. The front seats are still leather, still heated and still adjusted via Mercedes-style controls. The HVAC system is still automatic and still has two zones. The self-dimming Homelink rear-view mirror is there too, as are the automatic high beams, the push-button ignition and the auto-unlocking doors. The air-bag count remains at nine. So it seems that the answer to all three questions above was "yes."
The Azera doesn't break new ground in performance or technology. What it does is come up behind the establishment in this segment—Toyota's Avalon, Nissan's Maxima, a Honda product or two, various Buicks, Fords and such—and hip-check them aside.
Everything old is new again. Fortunately, with a few exceptions, "new" invariably beats "old," at least in automobiles. Ford's revival of the SHO variant of its Taurus sedan is a case in point. When the original SHOwed up, way, way back in MCMLXXXIX, it had front-wheel drive, a 5-speed manual gearbox and a V-6 rated for 220 horsepower—enough to motivate a 3,300-pound car relatively well. Over the next 10 years the SHO was updated twice, but it never got beyond 235 horsepower.
SHO stands for Super High Output, so that was a bit of hype even then; a 1989 M5 sedan, by contrast, was good for 310 horsepower. (The BMW cost twice as much as the Ford, but never mind.)
The SHO disappeared for a decade and then returned a few years ago as this fourth-generation model. At 365 horsepower and 350 lb-ft of torque, its output still isn't "super high" (the new top-end Ferrari makes something like 900 HP), but this engine has to lug around only 12 pounds per horsepower instead of the first SHO's 15. And the improvements go far beyond power-to-weight ratios. In every way the 2013 SHO is parsecs ahead of the original, although it has gained a whopping 1,100 pounds.
How? It's a much bigger car, for starters—six inches wider and taller and more than a foot longer, and with an absolutely enormous trunk. The modern SHO's all-wheel-drive adds weight too, but AWD erases the torque-steer and understeer that plague powerful FWD cars, and it makes the SHO an all-weather fighter-bomber. For 2013, Ford has upgraded its anti-spin electronics too; if the genie believes the car is headed seriously off-axis, something called Curve Control steps in to slow one wheel or another to help straighten it out.
This new SHO also has bigger brakes and brake master cylinders. The car stops hard and true, and its brake pedal is easy to modulate. (The emergency brake is a foot pedal too, so stop fantasizing about handbrake turns.) All Tauruses now have electric power steering; the SHO's is specially tuned. It feels accurate and lively, if a bit numb. The SR1 suspension, with its SHO-only springs, shock absorbers, bushings and stabilizer bars, gets high marks as well. Our SHO was also equipped with a new Performance Package that includes bigger wheels and better tires, a slightly firmer suspension and even stouter brakes, a true "off" switch for the stability control, and shorter final-drive gearing for extra acceleration.
In a 70/30 mix of interstate and in-town driving, our SHO averaged 21.3 miles per gallon. Thanks to turbocharging, direct fuel injection, that electric steering, grille shutters that close at speed (to improve aerodynamics) and other fuel-economy wizardry, this might climb as high as 25 MPG. But who buys a SHO to save a few bucks at the pump?
Ford puts variations of this twin-turbo EcoBoost V-6 motor into a number of its upper-end models; in the SHO it's hooked up to a 6-speed automatic transmission with shifter paddles on the wheel. However, the transmission needs no help from the driver, especially in Sport mode.
SHO upgrades aren't limited to athletic prowess. Ford has liberally sprinkled the contents of its toy chest throughout: heated leather seats with available massage; voice-activation for music, telephone, climate control, navigation, news and incoming texts; a rear-view camera and backup sensors; adjustable pedals; blind-spot and cross-traffic alerts; and interactive cruise control with collision warning.
Altogether, the SHO has evolved from a cult car into an unusually well-rounded package that is a pleasure to drive and be driven in. The car feels beautifully planted and controllable on any pavement, and sometimes so quick that it's hard to believe there's "only" 350 pounds of torque on tap. The SHO is still well off the M5's mark—now 560 HP, plus tons of technology and luxury—but it also still costs less than half the German dreadnaught's $90,000-plus.
Is the BMW more than twice as good? Doubtful; and it's still only rear-wheel-drive. Now we're thinking that if Ford built a flashy body around this platform and sexed up the cabin a bit, they'd have a Lincoln that could run with the new generation of Cadillacs.
After decades of scoffing at it, I have become not just a fan but a connoisseur of cruise control. This stems from an encounter last July between two Maine state troopers, one in a Ford Interceptor and the other overhead in a Cessna 182, and me in a 470-horsepower Chrysler 300 SRT8. It was friendly and even semi-humorous, but now my driver's license has a blot on it.
Which means no more, "Sir, I see you have no violations so I'll let you off with a warning." Which in turn means tiptoeing down the interstates more carefully than ever. (My insurance is high enough.) The best way to stay under the radar, literally, is to set the cruise control at something barely permissible—I like 78—and then clear the left lane so the dudes doing 85 or 90 can blow by and attract the heat.
So far, so good. With proper cruise control, it isn't even that boring; and the one in the Infiniti M35h may be the best I've tried.
Here's how modern interactive/adaptive cruise control works: Turn it on. Toggle up or down to set the precise speed. (MPH appears in a little window.) Adjust the interval (approximately two, three or four school-bus lengths behind the car in front). Withdraw foot from throttle. The genie maintains the set speed until it "sees" traffic ahead; then it slows your car to the same speed and holds the pre-set gap. If the obstruction isn't moving, or it stops, cruise control should bring you to a stop too. (It can't yet swerve you into an empty lane.)
However, few CCs do this with the smoothness of a human brain processing distance and speed and fluidly adjusting throttle, brakes and steering. Faced with an obstacle, many such CCs just freak out—chop the throttle abruptly, then get back onto the gas only agonizingly slowly after you've nosed your car to the side. But not this Infiniti; its ICC, Intelligent Cruise Control, really is. The transitions are smooth but positive and relatively quick; braking and acceleration are pretty much what most of us do. ICC lacks only a "tailgate" setting—to impress upon the hellspawn clogging the passing lane that it's high time to move over—but Infiniti has (probably wisely) resisted this.
ICC can slow the M35h to a crawl and then recover—even from toll booths, at least if you have E-ZPass. The system flawlessly negotiated I-95 from Massachusetts through Connecticut and right across Manhattan to the George Washington Bridge with no human inputs beyond steering. At the GW, however, we learned that once the Infiniti comes to a complete stop, ICC shuts down and has to be re-booted.
Why, you're wondering, the lecture on cruise control? Because the rest of the M35h is so compromised.
It's not the cabin or the comforts and conveniences, which are every inch what is expected from a $66,245 sedan loaded with Technology, Deluxe and Premium packages. (Although the satnav did go into an endless Groundhog Day loop in metro DC, complete with an unfinished highway on-ramp.) Nor is it the advanced suspension, which produces a refined and controlled ride.
No, the compromise is in the M35h's hybrid gas-electric drive, which on the one hand is quite fuel-efficient but on the other suffers from horrid lag whenever the computer has to choose between the two. At a stop, the genie sits and thinks, OK, what's it gonna be . . . ? while the driver's foot sinks ever farther toward the floor. And then a rush of torque catapults the car ahead like a demented rabbit. When we lift off the throttle in surprise, the car sags back into the wet sand again. Not even the multi-mode, adaptive 7-speed transmission helps; the Sport setting just amplifies the abruptness, and don't even try Eco unless you're just morbidly curious.
Fortunately, once it's up to speed, the M35h stays there with considerable aplomb and even fuel economy. Thirty MPG at 78 MPH in a luxury car is commendable, but this particular good deed does not go unpunished. Infiniti, get the h out! Or tune it up to restore the sweet harmony between man and machine—as in your other M sedans, the 37 and 56.
If by chance the BMW X1 (discussed here recently) isn't your cuppa but you're still hunting for a small and stylish crossover SUV with all-wheel drive, this just might soak your tea bag: the updated 5-passenger Hyundai Santa Fe Sport. The 190-horsepower model is down 50 ponies from the 4-cylinder Beemer, but it costs $6,300 less to start—just $26,200. Jump up to the turbocharged Santa Fe Sport 2.0T and you gain 74 horsepower (a respectable 264 in all, and 269 lb-ft of torque) for $29,450.
Now you're only 36 HP less than the hotter X1, the 6-cylinder, but the difference in starting prices has shot up to $9,150. And the more boxes you tick on each option sheet, the greater the price difference gets.
We can hear the outrage already: How dare you equate a Hyundai with a BMW? Oh, but we're not done yet. The new Santa Fe is arguably as good-looking as the X1 on the outside and possibly nicer inside. In every dimension these two vehicles fall within a few inches of each other—and of the Honda CR-V, Ford Escape, Toyota RAV4, etc.—but the Korean is a critical bit roomier than the German, especially in the back seat and the cargo area. More, however, on Santa Fe roominess to come.
Yes, the 4-cylinder X1 has a vanilla-smooth 8-speed automatic transmission while the Santa Fe makes do with a slightly clumsier 6-speed. And, thanks some very sophisticated technology, the BMW may travel a mile or two farther on a gallon of gas. However, in 70/30 highway/city driving we averaged 24.4 MPG in a Santa Fe Sport AWD 2.0T. (Hyundai has cut weight by switching to new, higher-strength steel and this engine is fed fuel by direct injection, for a bit more efficiency.)
The Santa Fe's default mode is front-wheel-drive instead of the X1's RWD, with varying amounts of torque sent to the rear wheels as needed, but it has a classically BMW-style suspension. Depending on slippage, the Santa Fe's torque also can be automatically adjusted, "vectored," from side to side.
We wouldn't be surprised if the BMW was more composed at 110 miles per hour. But that's on the autobahn; here, the Santa Fe Sport meets or exceeds all expectations for stopping and going, as well as for comfort, quiet and convenience.
Our impress-the-press sample Santa Fe Sport was equipped with most of the optional toys. The "standard features" column on the spec sheet is long and, as usual, lists items that once were found only on really posh cars. However, one standard feature is unique, at least in this category: DSSM, or Driver-Selectable Steering Mode. This changes the steering effort and response from Normal to Sport to Comfort. In daily use the differences are almost unnoticeable—but the steering-wheel heater, part of the $2,900 Technology Package, is very noticeable and, in late winter, welcome.
That's over on the "added features" side of the sticker, which is where we also find the leather trim and front and rear seat heaters, the dual-zone automatic climate control, the GPS navigation and the rear-view camera, the digital connectivity features, the 12-speaker sound system and a host of other goodies, including window shades. We want for nothing. Well, except better headlights, please.
Now let's go back to roominess: This Santa Fe Sport has two rows of seats for five people (four comfortably). Not enough? Meet the Santa Fe GLS, with two more seats in a third row. If you didn't see the GLS next to a Sport, you'd be hard-pressed to tell that it's 10 inches longer. The stretch Santa Fe has a bigger motor too, a 290-horsepower V-6, and a starting price of $28,350. With a choice of three engines and front-wheel or all-wheel drive in two different sizes and at prices that start in the mid-20s, the Santa Fe has become an unusually versatile vehicle.
Mr. or Ms. Average Driver who has just traded in his or her 10-year-old (average) beater on a 2013 Santa Fe is going to drive home in blissful happiness, marveling at how much cars have improved.
A group of auto writers was standing around in the garage recently, eyeing this four-door Wrangler. Awful, isn't it?, someone said. General agreement. But I sure like it, he continued. General agreement again—enthusiasm, even! This is the Wrangler Conundrum: As an automobile, it's dreadful; but as an authentic "character vehicle" it's almost embarrassingly successful.
Jeep can't build Wranglers fast enough and many dealers have waiting lists. Wranglers are cash cows, too—the sticker on ours read $43,220. Granted, it was the Unlimited Moab Edition with 12 grand worth of add-ons, but still—yikes. The basic development costs of this thing must have been amortized before I was born.
Today, a short-wheelbase, two-door Wrangler starts at $22,195 and the stretched four-door Unlimited version at $25,695. Jeep has done a good job of packaging these basic models, offering many variations on the two themes. The Moab Edition is a new one that slots between the top-line Rubicon off-roader and the "downtown" Sahara. (Moab, in Utah's red-rock desert, is a magnet for mountain bikers and 4X4 zealots and the site of an annual Jeep get-together.) Some of the distinctions between various Wranglers are just decals, trim and wheel styles, but beneath the cosmetics all of them are essentially semi-domesticated military vehicles. The frame rails look like they came off the Brooklyn Bridge. Wrangler "stylists" like 90-degree angles and flat surfaces, and prefer skid plates to, say, cabin insulation. And traction? This is no wimpy part-time slip-and-grip system, but true 4-wheel-drive that's either on or off, with a low speed range for rock-crawling and two differentials that can be locked to keep the wheels churning in all conditions. Just yank the lever in the floor and push a button.
This Moab had the optional 5-speed automatic transmission with Hill Descent Control. Our greatest driving challenge last week wasn't mud, rocks or ravines; it was snow. Thanks to ground clearance and long throttle travel that helped feed the torque to slippery surfaces, the Jeep easily churned through it. Wranglers are powered by Chrysler's Pentastar V-6, tuned for 285 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. Fuel-economy ratings run from 16 MPG in city driving to 20 or 21 on the highway (not that owners care).
Like every carmaker, Jeep is legally obliged to protect its customers from themselves and each other, so Wranglers have airbags, anti-lock disk brakes, electronic stability control and now tire-pressure monitors. Ours also boasted car-like conveniences (cruise control, power door locks and windows, A/C, a map lamp) and a long list of options. These included hardware such as rock rails, tail-lamp guards and heavy-duty bumpers, plus a slew of decadent upgrades: cushy leather seats (heated in front), a computer with a touchscreen, Bluetooth and Voice Command, satellite radio and navigation, and more.
But the cabin is cramped and shows a lot of painted metal. Driving faster than a crawl on a potholed road will scramble your brain. Cutting a corner with any sort of precision depends on luck. Tire roar and wind noise are deafening at speed. Speaking of speed, don't even think about an emergency lane-change on the interstate. Today's Wrangler is more sophisticated than ever, but only so much can be done to civilize this machine before it becomes something less. A Wrangler is as limited in its function as the Mustang, the Corvette and the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, but just as broad in its appeal.
Maybe these Jeeps awaken memories of a freer, less anxious age, when kids rode bicycles without helmets, grownups smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey, and "unmanned aerial vehicles" were model airplanes, not drones. Even Europeans love them. In 1943 the Wrangler's great-granddaddy waded ashore in Sicily, to help settle the big war; in 2009 Jeep was one of the main reasons for Fiat's purchase of the Chrysler Group.
The Toyota FJ and the late Hummer H3 are more road-worthy than any Wrangler, and Mercedes-Benz's G-wagen is much more posh. Sure, and a Yamaha Star rides better than a Harley and Meryl Streep is a better actress than Scarlett Johansson and everyone knows that double cheeseburgers are bad for us. Tell it to the target demographic and see if anybody gives a hoot. Heck, even we like the Wrangler.
Silvio Calabi reviews the latest from Detroit, Munich, Yokohama, Gothenburg, Crewe, Seoul and wherever else interesting cars are born. Silvio is a charter member of the New England Motor Press Association whose automotive reviews date back to the Reagan administration. He is the former publisher of "Speedway Illustrated" magazine and an author.


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CINCINNATI – In the women's final of the Western and Southern Open on Sunday, Na Li summoned her inner strength and battled back from a set and break down to defeat Angelique Kerber, 1-6, 6-3, 6-1.
The title in Cincinnati marked only her first title since winning the French Open 14 months ago, but she was "hungry" for this win in particular.
"Last night I was thinking about how I was in three finals this year but never won a title," Li admitted. "So I was really hungry for the title today. Also, I was having lunch today and saw Roger after he won, having his photo taken - I really wanted to do the same."
Although she wasn't victorious, Kerber has much to celebrate in reflection of the past year. She climbed to a career-high world No. 6 on the WTA Tour this past Monday.
"One year ago [my ranking] was in the hundreds… like No.90 or No.100," Kerber said. "Now I'm in the finals of Cincinnati, a really big tournament, so there are so many things that have changed in the last year. I prefer this year to last year."
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