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■ FEBRUARY 17, 2013

T he Enquirer Media andCars.com CincinnatiAuto Expo, presented

by the Greater CincinnatiAutomobile DealersAssociation, revs up Thursdayand continues through nextSunday at the Duke EnergyConvention Center, Downtown.Hundreds of vehicleintroductions highlight fuelefficiency, crossovers, electriccars, and technology andsafety features. Enjoy the ride.

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I2 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2013 /// THE ENQUIRER

Steady growth in new carsales has auto dealers and ven-dorsfor theEnquirerMediaandCars.com Cincinnati Auto Expoexcited about the prospect oflarge crowds and keen interestin the more than 400 new vehi-cles that will be on display Feb.20-24 at the Duke Energy Con-vention Center.

Theshowisaperfectplace tostart searching for that new ve-hicle as a no sales policy meansthat visitors can browse carsfrom 32 manufacturers and 110dealers all they want withoutpressure. The chance to com-pare cars of many makes andmodels in one spot is an oppor-tunitymanyshopperscan’tpassup, says Charlie Howard, exec-utive vice president of theGreater Cincinnati Auto Deal-ers Association.

“It’s a great opportunity tocompare brands,” says How-ard. “Technology is the ‘in’ thingright now. Cars are offeringmore connectivity. They are

also safer than ever before. Vis-itors can sit behind the wheel,pop the hood, test new technol-ogy and features, ask questionsand receive expert advice.”

Every vendor spot for theshow is sold out with nearly allarea auto dealers represented,fromAcura toVolkswagen,plusa number of industry-relatedexhibitors such as vintage cardealers, sports car clubs, andeven fine chocolate sellers.

An aging U.S. fleet meansmore and more drivers areshopping for replacement vehi-cles,Howard says. The averageage of cars on the road is 11.With an improving economyandpent up demand, he expectsnational sales will climb to 15.5million cars this year, up from14.5 million last year.

Visitors to the show whohaven’t looked at newmodels ina while will notice some freshfeatures. Cars aremore fuel ef-ficient than ever, and that effi-ciency does not come at the ex-pense of space, power and luxu-ry, saysHoward. There are alsoelectric models from several

manufacturers.“Carmakershavefocusedon

how to create more room insmaller vehicles,” he says.“They have more horsepower,too. But they are very fuel effi-cient.”

New autos are also full oftechnology, from hands-freeparallel parking to back-upcameras and wireless mediasystems. Safety is also im-

proved from years ago, withmany models boasting featuressuch as tire pressure monitor-ing, stability control, collisionmitigation oncruise control andblind spot detection, plus dualstage airbags, telematics andmore.

Safety will be a highlight ofthe show this year as the eventwill feature a partnership withCincinnati Children’s Hospital

Medical Center to promote itsChild Passenger Safety Pro-gram with child car seat safetydemonstrations.

Aspart of thispromotion, thekick-off party Wednesday eve-ningfrom5to9p.m.will featurelive entertainment by theRustyGriswolds, a popular ’80s coverband, and a portion of the pro-ceeds from the night will go tothe CCHMC Child PassengerSafety Program.

Chip Hart, CEO of Hart Pro-ductions, which produces theexpo, says thatheexpectsatten-dance to increase this year as itdid last year.

“The trend for shows is verypositive compared to pastyears,”saysHart. “Economical-ly things are up, and people areexcited about the chance to seeand experience new cars.”

Auto industry experts pointto improving sales across thecountry and an industry thathas bounced back from histori-cal lows as proof that theAmer-ican car market is recoveredfrom the slowdown of a fewyears ago.

Aah! No-pressure browsingof hundreds of new vehiclesBy Val PrevishEnquirer contributor ABOUT THE 2013 CINCINNATI AUTO EXPO

» What: Enquirer Media and Cars.com Cincinnati Auto Expo present-ed by the Greater Cincinnati Automobile Dealer Association» Where: Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., Downtown» When: The show kicks off with a preview party 5 to 9 p.m. Wednes-

day, featuring The Rusty Griswolds ’80s cover band, of which a portionof the proceeds benefit Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.The remaining dates are Thursday, 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday, 11 a.m. to9 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.» Admission: $11 for adults; kids 13 and under are free with an adult

on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and $2 on Saturday and Sunday.» Discounts: Save $3 by buying a ticket at Cincinnati area Kroger

stores. Also, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, adults canbuy two tickets for the price of one at the door.For more information: Go to cincinnatiautoexpo.com or Twitter:

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Electric cars, barely a ripplein the car business now despiteheavy publicity, willmake up10percent of the markets whereelectrics are sold by 2020, saysCarlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissanand Renault.

“Am I still bullish on electricvehicles? Yes,” Ghosn said at aconference sponsored by con-sultant IHS and the NationalAutomobile Dealers Associa-tion in connection with the NewYork auto show.

Nissan makes the Leaf elec-tric, and Ghosn said the compa-ny has sold 25,000 worldwide.

He also said that he hashalved the number of electrics,to 500,000, the number at whichNissan won’t need governmentincentives to maintain strongsales. SomeU.S. electric buyerscan get $7,500 credits on theirfederal taxes.

Nissan is ramping up pro-duction of electrics and batter-ies faster than expected, so thecost of pricey batteries and oth-er electric components is fall-ing fast, he said.

Now in its third model year, the highly innovative, industry-leading Nissan LEAF pure-electric vehicle features an extensive list of important enhancements for 2013. PROVIDEDPHOTOS/NISSAN

Nissan CEO:Electric cars10% of salesby 2020By James R. HealeyUSA TODAY

Nissan has sold 25,000 Leaf electric cars worldwide and will introduce other electric models.

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TheHonda Pilot remains themost fuel-efficient eight-pas-senger sport utility vehicle for2013; it is ratedaboveaverage inpredicted reliability and offersacomfortablerideandversatilecargo hauling.

The Pilot is a recommendedbuy of Consumer Reports andwas named the Ideal Vehicle inthemidsize premiumcrossoverSUVsegment by automotive re-search company AutoPacific ofTustin, Calif.

Despite the accolades, Hon-da keeps adding new standardequipmentwhilekeepingthePi-lot price on par with competi-tors that also have three rowsofseats.

For 2013, a rearview camera,which helps drivers betterknowwhat’s behind the vehicle,is standard on all Pilots. And

drivers have a good-sized, 8-inch, standard display screen inthe Pilot dashboard.

The 2013Pilot gets other newstandard equipment, includingthree-zone automatic climatecontrol and Bluetooth hands-free phone calling for occu-pants with Bluetooth-enabledphones.

Best of all, the 2013 Pilot hasa starting retail price of $30,350for a front-wheel drive modelwith 250-horsepower V-6 andautomatic transmission. Thelowest starting manufacturer’ssuggested retail price, includ-ing destination charge, for a2013 Pilot with four-wheel driveis $31,950.

ThePilot has only one engine– a 3.5-liter, single overheadcam V-6 that rations gasolineautomatically when a computermodule detects that a driverdoesn’t need all six cylinderspowering the vehicle.

For 2013, a rearview camera, which helps drivers better knowwhat’s behind the vehicle, is standard on all Pilots. And drivers have a good-sized, 8-inch, standard display screen in thedashboard. PROVIDED PHOTOS/HONDA

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Ford Fiesta is a versatile,budget-conscious small carwith a stylish interior and up-scale car options such as heatedleather seats andvoice-recogni-tion controls. The Fiesta alsohas higher U.S. governmentfuel economy ratings than agasoline-powered Honda Fit.

Best of all, the 2013 Fiestaearned five out of five stars inside-crash testing by the U.S.government. It’s one of the fewsubcompacts with such a highscore in side-crash testing.

Available as a five-doorhatchbackandasedan, theFies-ta features the lowest startingmanufacturer’s suggested re-tail price, including destination

charge, of any new-model Ford:$13,995 for a base S sedan withfive-speed manual transmis-sionand$15,090forasedanwithautomatic.

A base 2013 Fiesta S hatch-back with manual starts at$14,995. A Fiesta S hatchbackwithautomatic,however, jumpsin price to $16,090.

All 2013 Fiestas have thesame120-horsepower, naturallyaspirated, four-cylinder, gaso-line engine, though the Fiesta issold in other some countrieswith diesel engines and turbo-charged power.

In theUnitedStates, theFies-ta has a large number of small-car competitors.

As an example, the startingFiesta hatchback retail pricesare $1,120 and $825 less, respec-

tively, than those for the 2013Honda Fit with 117-horsepower,naturally aspirated four-cylin-der and manual and automatictransmissions. But the 2013 KiaRio five-door hatchback with138-horsepower, naturally aspi-rated four cylinder has startingMSRPs, including destinationcharge, that are lower than theFiesta’s – $14,550 with manualtransmission and $15,650 withautomatic.

Meanwhile, the 2012 Chevro-letSonicstartsat$14,660asase-dan with manual transmissionand$15,730asasedanwithauto-matic.

As a hatchback, the 2012Son-ic has a starting MSRP, includ-ing destination charge, of$15,560 with manual transmis-sionand$16,630withautomatic.

Sonics are available with 138-horsepower, naturally aspirat-ed four cylinder and 138-horse-power, turbochargedfourcylin-der. The turbo four has higherpeak torque and it comes on at alower rpm.

Not much has changed fortheU.S. Fiesta for the 2013mod-el year though standard equip-ment and equipment packagesare re-aligned.

The test Fiesta SEhatchbacklooked good in its bright redpaint with painted aluminumwheels.

Fiestas have prominent in-dentations intheirsidebodies toadd interest. Added-on trimpiecesofsilverorblackarenon-existent, thus conveying a“clean” car that slices throughthe air.

Front styling has a swankyEuropean look – not exactlybrawny and not exactly cute.Some buyers may prefer a dif-ferent appearance, and Ford of-fers body stripes and differentgrille inserts as options.

The test Fiesta five-doormoved along in traffic andmerged well, though the cardidn’t have super sporty accel-eration.

Gear shifts were noticeableat times. The transmission wasthe six-speed PowerShift auto-matic that’s Ford’s dual-clutch,semi-automatic mechanism. Itwas the subject of complaintsfrom consumers last year, butFord said it has installed newelectronic programming to bet-

All Ford Fiesta models come equipped with Ford’s leading safety and security features including driver knee airbag and anti-theft engine immobilizer. PROVIDED/FORDMOTOR COMPANY

Fiesta is Ford’s smallest US carBy AnnM. JobAssociated Press

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OK, Chevy gets seriousabout the new Malibu.

Rolling out now is the main-stream version of the rede-signed 2013 Malibu with thenew-generation General Mo-tors gasoline four-cylinder en-gines.

Onemodel of the redoneMa-libu – the Eco – has been on salesince late January. But the Eco,which has GM’s eAssist gaso-line-electric mild hybrid drive-train, isn’t meant to be a high-volume seller; about 2,000 amonth, or roughly 10 percent oftotal Malibu sales.

The eAssist, also offered inBuicks, was the onlyMalibu po-wertrain ready when Chevy,hurried by GM CEO Dan Aker-son, finished the rest of the car.

The newgas enginesweren’t onthe same schedule.

TestDrive evaluated theMa-libu Eco eAssist earlier.

The 2.5-liter gasoline-onlymodels, like those evaluatedhere, are the ones that Chevyexpects at least 75 percent ofbuyers to pick. The new design,2.5-liter, four-cylinder has mod-ern direct fuel injection but notthe turbocharger that’s becom-ing a common power booster onfour-bangers. It’s also the baseengine on the 2013 CadillacATSsmall sedan coming soon.

A go-faster Malibu, comingin September or October, willhave a 2-liter turbo four, sameas the midlevel engine in theCadillac ATS.

It’s hardly a stretch to callthe 2013 Malibu the best mod-ern Chevy. Styling is crisp andrestrained. Interior is roomy

and quiet, outfitted with classytrim. Engine’s strong. But thatcombo is almost the price of en-try, rather than standout attri-butes.

The midsize sedan play-ground is full ofbullies, and justbeing a really good car is noguarantee of success. Ford’snew Fusion comes soon, edgyand Euro. Honda fields a newAccord late this summer,sculpted and trimmer. Nissan’snew Altima just went on sale asa gas-mileage champ that’squick and comfy.

There is such furious activ-ity because the midsize sedansegment is biggest in the U.S.:26 percent of all new vehiclessold, says sales tracker Autoda-ta.

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The 2013 Chevrolet Malibu ECO model will deliver an estimated fuel economy of 26 city/38 highway, making it the most fuel-efficient Chevrolet midsize vehicle ever. GETTY IMAGES

Redesigned Malibu is a solid rideBy James R. HealeyUSA TODAY A LOOK AT THE 2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU

» What: Redesigned Malibu with the new-generation gasoline en-gines most people will buy. Midsize, four-door, front-drive sedan meantto rival Ford Fusion, Hyundai Sonata, Toyota Camry, Honda Accord.» When: On sale since early August» Where: Built at Fairfax, Kan., Detroit-Hamtramck, Mich.» Howmuch: Starts at $23,150, including shipping; tops out about

$34,000» What makes it go: 2.5-liter Ecotec four-cylinder rated 197 horse-

power at 6,300 rpm, 191 pounds-feet of torque at 4,400 rpm. Cominglate summer/early fall: optional 2-liter turbocharged Ecotec four-cylinderrated 259 hp at 5,500 rpm, 260 lbs.-ft., at 1,700 rpm. All engines usesix-speed automatic transmission.» How big: A few inches longer than Camry. Malibu is 191.5 inches

long, 73 inches wide, 57.6 inches tall on a 107.8-inch wheelbase. Weight,3,393 to 3,660 lbs. Passenger space, 100.3 cubic feet; trunk, 16.3 cubicfeetTurning circle diameter, 37.4 feet» How thirsty: 2.5-liter rated 23 mpg in the city, 34 highway, 26 in

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The 2014 M6 GranCoupe bolts two turbo-chargers to its 4.4-literV-8 to generate 560 horse-power and 500 pound-feetof torquefora0-60 timeof4.1 seconds.

The Gran Coupe is thelatest example ofGermanmanufacturers’ infatua-tion with the idea of com-bining swoopy coupe-likestyling with the practical-ity of four doors.

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The interior features ahead-up display, light-weight sport seats, Meri-no leather, carbon-fibertrim and two buttons toactivate customized per-formance settings for thetransmission, shocks,steering, engine and sta-bility control.

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ter manage the workingsof the transmission.

Torque in the Fiesta’s1.6-liter, double overheadcam,Duratech four cylin-der peaks at 112 foot-pounds at a relativelyhigh 5,000 rpm. In com-parison, the Sonic’s 1.8-li-ter, turbocharged fourcylinder delivers 148foot-pounds of torque at2,500 rpm.

Still, the test Fiestaeasily averaged 29 milesper gallon in combinedcity and highway travelfor a total range of nearly360 miles on a single tankof gas. This mileage is abit lower than the com-bined33mpgratinggivento thisFiestamodelby theU.S. government, whichestimates city mileage at29 mpg and highwaymileageat 39mpg.AFies-ta with extra-charge fuelefficiency package is rat-ed at 40 mpg on the high-way.

The Honda Fit, in con-trast, is rated at 27/33mpg with automatictransmission and has noextra fuel efficiencypackage.

The interior of the Fi-esta test car had a snap-py-looking dashboard ar-ranged with a nice arrayof controls and featuresthat dispelled anythought that this was aSpartan, cheap vehicle.

In fact, the stickerprice was barely over$19,000, but the test Fies-ta drove with surprisingcompetency and nimble-ness.

The car absorbed agood number of roadbumps without fuss, andwhile passengers felt vi-brations from the road,theyweren’t overly intru-sive. The driver, mean-while, had a good feel forthe road in the Fiesta SEhatchback and found thecar tracked accurately incurves.

Front suspension is in-dependent MacPhersonstrut, while a twistedbeam and coil springshandle the rear.

Rack-and-pinion steer-ing was more precisethan expected and addedto the driver’s confi-dence.

With conservativelysized, 15-inch wheels andtires, the test Fiesta hadno feeling of unsprung, orheavy, weight at the cor-ners, which helped ex-

plain the satisfactory,non-jarring ride. Yet, atmore than 2,500 poundsoverall, for the test carwith automatic transmis-sion, the Fiesta didn’t feeloverly lightweight or ti-ny, either. This stable feelwas enhanced by stan-dard AdvanceTrac elec-tronic stability control.

The Fiesta also hasseven airbags, includingone for the driver’s kneeto help keep the driverproperly positioned be-hind the steering wheelduring a frontal crash.

The five-star side gov-ernment crash tests areimpressive for the Fiesta,while frontal crash testresults garnered four outof five stars.

The Honda Fit earnedfour out of five stars inside-crash testing.

But the 2013 ChevroletSonic earned five out offive stars in both frontaland side-crash testing.

Note that Ford had au-to journalists recentlytest drive one of its small,European, turbochargedengines.

While Ford made nopromises of which U.S.car might get the power-plant, there is speculationthat the Fiesta would be agood candidate.

Ford FiestaContinued from Page I4

of GM’s award-winningGerman Opel Insigniawith new start-from-scratch engines.

The 2.5-liter base four-cylinder is a bright spot.Prettyquiet andcalmnor-mally, it will yowl andscoot under heavy foot.Doesn’t feel taxed, justfeels as if it’s having a ballat WOT (“wide-openthrottle,” which is whatengineers call flooringthe gas pedal).

The Malibu test vehi-cles driven were an LTZhigh-end model, about$31,000, and an LT morelike a lot of buyers willchoose, about $27,000. Inaddition to their engine,so well-matched to its as-signed task, here’s whatseems worth noting on

these 2.5-liter Malibus:» Quiet. Chevy engi-

neers set out to make theinterior premium-car-quiet and succeeded. Ap-plause.

» Comfort. Seats fitwell; back’s roomyenough for adults. Somephysiques might find thefront cushions insuffi-ciently padded.

» Brakes. A bit numb,sadly.

» Shifting. Six-speedautomatic zips throughupshifts and downshiftswith composure and pre-cision. Manual shift modehas been changed from arocker switch on the sideof the gear lever to + and -touch points atop the le-ver. Still awkward and ill-positioned for easy use.

The gearbox jerks vio-lently in the quick on/off/on throttle maneuver thatyou’d use if you started tohustle, suddenly had to

slow for a police car or er-rant pedestrian, thenneeded to get back up tospeed fast.

» Interior. Classy. Thelower-price test car didn’tseem like awanna-be ver-sion, save for lack ofleather.

A big-screen infotain-ment and control systemcalledMyLink is standardon all but the base model.It is a central controller,operated by voice or but-tons, for phone, stereo,streaming audio (via Blu-etooth link to your phone,for instance).

» Dynamics. Ride iscomfy over most roads,but the front end bobs abit on undulating roads.Cornering agility is goodfor a family sedan.

The Malibu is a sweetChevy, satisfying towheelaround. But can it standout in an arena of strongcontenders?

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You can imagine the discus-sion at Chevy.

“Hey, how about a Camaroconvertible with, oh, a gazillionhorsepower?”

“Um,well, that’s a lot in a carthat lacks the gazillion-hpcoupe’s steel top to keep it frompretzeling when all the poniesare raging.”

“We’ll just put in a lot of brac-ing and it’s good to go.”

“Yeah, but we already havethe Camaro SS convertible, andit’s no dog. Do we really need ahigher-performance ragtop?”

“Sure. Cars with tops that godown are inherently more fun.And horsepower’s like money –no such thing as too much.”

Thus, the 2013 Camaro ZL1convertible: 580 horsepower,556 pounds-feet of torque, su-percharged 6.2-liter V-8, 184mph top speed, late Septembershowroom launch, $60,445 andup. It joins the 2012 ZL1 coupethat’s been on sale since spring.

And man-oh-man, what atreat.

Except for some reallycheap-looking plastic interiortrim. Chevy’s gotta do some-thing about that; it ruins thewhole impression.

You could rant about the stiff

price and the tight back seat,too, but ZL1 buyers probablyhave different priorities andhigher incomes and care moreabout what’s under the hood.

The ZL1 does suffer in com-parison with Ford’s Shelby GT500 Mustang. The pony car isslightly lower priced, has morepower (662hp), goes faster (200-plusmph)anduses less fuel (theFord’s rated 25 mpg at highway

speed; the Chevy’s best is 19).Chevy vs. Ford schoolyard

taunts aside: a 580-hp sporty carjust as the feds finalize the fuel-economy clamp-down for 54.5mpg by 2025?

But not everything can, orshould, be a fuel sipper if theprice of that parsimony is tedi-um. Camaro ZL1 ragtop drinksdeeply, but on a relative scale –satisfaction per gallon – it

doesn’t use that much fuel.Automatic transmission

models such as the test car arerated just 12 mpg in town, 18 onthe open road; manuals are 14/19. Our test miles on 55-mph ru-ral roads showed 20 mpg hold-ing at or near the speed limit(the biggest challenge of thetest), and 14 mpg when being,uh, playful.

Too, theZL1, and a racetrack-oriented1LEmodel,alsocomingthis fall, togetherwon’t bemorethan10percent ofCamarosales,Chevysays,orabout9,000carsayear.

Because the monstrouslypowerful ZL1 convertible is aCamaro, after all, it has the dra-matic exterior styling that hashelped make Camaro an even-upsales rival toFord’sMustang.

Unfortunately, that means italso shares Camaro’s demean-ing, tacky, plastic interior trim.

The front seats are comfy,even if the convertible’s backseat is cramped. Controls arehandy, if not always pleasing tooperate.

Instruments in the dash-board are easy to read; those onthe floor console aren’t withoutdiverting your eyes from theroad. Camaros of yore had somegauges there, and the modernreprise is an homage.

Steering, brakes, handling –

all really good. The ride’s notrough because the suspensionadjusts, softening for bumpsand firming on smooth paving.

The six-speed automatic, asin the test car, shifts crisply upand down and provides usefulmodes. In “drive,” it starts insecond gear. That saves a littlefuel, would help avoid wheelspin when starting on snow andis unnoticeable in easy-goingdriving because the engine hasso much low-speed power.

In “sport,” it starts in firstgear and has a more aggressiveshift program.

Steering wheel paddles giveyou true manual operation ofthe automatic. It stays in thegear you choose rather than re-verting to automatic if youaren’t actively using the pad-dles, as is typical.

Thestrikingattribute isZL1’scomposure at any speed. Butthat’s a bittersweet observation.Once upon a time, you could re-mark on similar good mannersof most Detroit cars with a bigV-8.

Nowadays, even V-6s arerare; four-cylinders have be-come the norm.

As good as today’s four-bang-ersare, theygiveyouabsolutelyno clue how deeply satisfying itis to drive a V-8 as nicely tunedas the ZL1’s.

CHEVROLET

The 2013 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 convertible is a magic carpet for wealthy folks who have thick enough skins to shed eco-villain barbs from neighbors. PROVIDED/GENERAL MOTORS

Camaro ZL1 ragtop a rocket with good mannersBy James R. HealeyUSA TODAY CAMARO ZL1NUTS AND BOLTS

» What: Convertible version of high-performance, rear-drive, two-door, four-passenger, sporty car» When: On sale late September» Where:Made at Oshawa, Ontario, Canada» Howmuch: Starts at $60,445 including shipping, $4,550 more

than the ZL1 coupe» What makes it go: 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 rated 580 horse-

power at 6,000 rpm, 556 pounds-feet of torque at 4,200; available withTremec TR6060 six-speed manual or Hydra-Matic 6L90 six-speed auto-matic» How fast: Chevy says 0 to 60 mph in four seconds, top speed of

184 mph, standing-start quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds.» How big: 190.4 inches long, 75.5 inches wide, 54.7 inches tall,

112.3-inch wheelbase. Weighs 4,380 pounds, 260 pounds more than thecoupe. Trunk space, 10.2 cubic feet when top’s up, 1.1 cubic feet lessthan coupe; 7.8 cubic feet with top down. Turning circle diameter 37.7feet» How thirsty: Rated 12 mpg city, 18 highway, 14 in city/highway

mix (automatic transmission), 14/19/16 mpg (manual)Test cars’ trips computers showed 20 mpg (5 gallons per 100 miles) on

55-mph two-lane back roads, 14.3 mpg (7 gal./100 mi.) in enthusiasticdriving on rural roads.Requires premium fuel, tank holds 19 gallons


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But fornowwheelingaroundin a pure electric car is like pi-loting a high-price gasoline carwith only a quarter-tank of fuelthat would take you severalhours to refill (albeit for lessmoney than topping off withgasoline).

You’re always looking at therange indicatorasyou’d tenselykeep a wary eye on a low gasgauge.

Electric backers cite datashowing most Americans aver-

age only 35 miles or so a day –but an average means somedays less, somemore.

Range anxiety is real, and itkeeps you from enjoying thedriving satisfaction otherwiseprovided by an electric vehicle(EV) such as the Ford FocusElectric. You also stew overpossible power outages leavingyou no way to refuel.

Ford hopes to sell 10,000 ayear once the car’s available na-tionwide. A paltry number, buteven so would be more salesthan Nissan’s Leaf. Which saysa lot about demand for elec-trics.

Still, their number will riseas car companies scramble forways tomeet fuel-economyreg-ulations that dictate an average54.5 mpg in 2025. And rules insome states for a minimumnumber of zero emission vehi-cles (i.e., electrics). But whileEVs don’t directly emit pollut-ants, the power to recharge

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The Focus EV, available onlyas a hatchback, is purely a Fo-cus, save for powerplant. Thusit’sasstylishasagasolineFocusbut has even less space insidethan the somewhat trim-fittinggas model.

The battery eats up rear car-go area, leaving you about 60percent of the gas model’s car-go room. That’s a big drawbackin a hatchback because cargoaccommodation is a hatch’sforte.

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Still, VWwants notice for theUp (VW prefers “up!” but thatseemstooaffected), so it is lend-ing it to U.S. auto writers.

“We love to tease,” VWspokesman Corey Proffittjokes, adding more seriously,“We want to continue to showthe depth and breadth of Volks-wagen product offeringsworld-wide. We’re not just testing re-action to the Up’s size, power-train and design.”

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TheScionFR-S is agor-geous, joy-generating,modestly priced smallsports coupe that turnsout to be slightlymore ap-pealing than its near-clone, the Subaru BRZ.

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» Looked better. Rea-sonable people often dis-agree on matters of taste,but to our eyes the FR-Shas a smoother silhouette.

The FR-S front fenderis blemished a tad by an“86” badge, a reference tothe 1980s Corolla AE86that Toyota remembers asa sporting car of touch-stone status (which seemslike euphoric recall to us).The faux vents on thefront fenders are biggerand less artfully integrat-ed on the BRZ.

The Scion ethic, if youwill, seems more pure.The idea of the car is a re-turn to affordable, sporty,sexy sports cars to sort ofrecapture the excitementof the original MazdaMiata.

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And don’t mourn the

Scion’s lack of the BRZ’sfancy headlights. HIDsystems have such razor-sharp beam cutoffs (in afailed attempt to avoidshining up into the eyes ofoncoming drivers) thatyou can’t see anythingeven a little above thelight’s reach.Goodnormalheadlights provide gener-ous illumination and giveyou a little light scatter atthe fringes to spot some-thing lurking just beyondthe lights.

Neither BRZ nor FR-Soffers abackupcameraormulti-adjusting visors.Their tiny back seats aremore for small hostages

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come with summer-tread,high-performance tiresand are low to the ground,you’ll need at least snowtires, more likely a sepa-rate winter vehicle, if youlive where snow accumu-lates even a little.

At some point in shop-ping for cars of this type,you forget the flaws andembrace the joys. Thatseems proper. Both theScion and the Subaru cansatisfy you deeply. Fancy-feature lovers perforcemust pick the Subaru, butthe Scion has a very slightedge on the joy index.

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Scion FR-S: Beauty, joy, notable valueBy James R. HealeyUSA TODAY

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the BRZ.» Where:Made in Japan alongside the BRZ by Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries» Howmuch: Starts at $24,930 with $730 shipping for manual transmission, $26,030 for

automatic» What makes it go: New 2-liter Subaru “boxer” four-cylinder with Toyota-developed

D-4S fuel system that combines direct injection and intake-port injection. Toyota says portinjection is better after a cold start and under modest load, direct injection is best at othertimes. Engine rated 200 horsepower at 7,000 rpm, 151 pounds-feet of torque at 6,400 rpm.Available with six-speed manual or six-speed automatic.» How big: About 9 inches longer, 2 inches wider than Mazda Miata. FR-S is 166.7 inches

long, 69.9 inches wide, 50.6 inches tall on a 101.2-inch wheelbase. Weighs about 2,758pounds (manual) or 2,806 pounds (automatic).» How thirsty:Manual rated 22 miles per gallon in the city, 30 highway, 25 combined.

Automatic: 25/34/28. Trip computer in manual test car showed 22.1mpg (4.72 gallons per100 miles) in sporting suburban driving. Burns premium; holds 13.2 gallons

» Overall:Way too much fun for the modest price

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» Inviting dynamics. En-gine loves to rev, a good thing asyoumust thrash the little three-cylinder, 75-horsepower,gasen-gine to keep up with quick traf-fic.

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» Bothersome engine tun-ing. The test car’s engine didn’tslow much between shifts, so itfelt as if you forgot to take yourfoot off the gas.

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» Rigmarole controls.Driv-er’s-side arm rest lacks switch-es for both sides’ power win-dows. You have to lean over toclose the passenger’s.

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Gripes aside, Up is fun todrive, fun to look at, roomy andagreeably classy inside. Withmore power it could be a verynice addition to the U.S. street-scape.

VW Eco UpContinued from Page I10

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The car sacrifices an elec-tric’s creamy smooth drivingbehaviorwhen shifting thegearlever to “L.” Normally that’dmean“low,”but in thisFocus it’sthe setting most electrics andgas-electrichybridshave (oftenlabeled “B”) for increasing theamount of power that flowsback into the batteries whilebraking, called regenerativebraking, or simply “regen.”

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Then consider real-world mileage. The testcar, government-rated 53/46/50mpg in the city/high-way/combinedtests, cameclose to 50mpg in our sub-urban thrash-about. Thatwas with no attempt todrive formileage, nor anyappreciable time spent inthe “Eco” mode or the EVsetting,which lets you runbattery-only slower than25mph formost of amile.

The trip computer,which can analyze eachleg, showed 60 to 80 mpgfor some 4-mile errandsaround the ’burbs.

The c, smallest andnewest of thePriushybridfamily, also handled withgrace, composure, littlebody lean and enoughbrioto make a driver grin.

And salute the drive-train, which has axed theshudders that hybrids ex-perience when the gaso-line engine restarts.Though rated just 99 totalhorsepower, gas engineand electric motor com-bined, the c has enoughpep and friskiness tomake it fun instead of dre-ary. It has the kind of per-sonality thatwere it a dog,you’d call it Sparky orScamp.

Amenities next, whichin the level-three test carinclude a luxury cartouch: If the car’s locked,the interior lights comeonas you approach with theproximitykey.Less exoticbut still welcome: A touchonthedoorhandleunlocksthe car. The two-tone inte-rior and small trim itemscolored tomatch the exte-rior elevate the Prius cfrom thedull presentationyou might expect in an“economy car” or mile-age-obsessed hybrid.

Appearance is agree-ably funky, mainly be-cause it’s achieved withpurity via shape and pro-portion, not through styl-ing exaggerations or gra-tuitous bulges and creas-es.

You might balk at thesubcompact size, whichlimits rear-seat and cargospace. Yet the c providesadult-size leg and kneeclearance for two in back,even behind 6-footers.Getting into and out of thecar can be a bit of a twist,though. And don’t expectto carry all your college-bound youngster’s goodsin thecargohold.Thekid’slaundry, maybe.

Youmight be put off bythe lack of a backup cam-era at any price. Prius c’ssmall sizemakes it easy totell where you are in rela-tion to big things you’drather not hit, but there’sstill plenty of smallerstuff – kids, pets, etc. –that you could see if onlythere were a backup cam-era.

There’s no navigationsystem on the lower-endmodels, but that’s almost aplus. Less-expensive af-termarket units, such as a$180 Garmin, work betterthan most built-ins.

You might find the en-gine’s mildly coarse voiceannoying. And the CVT(continuously variable-ra-tio automatic transmis-sion) revs the engine hardunder acceleration andkeeps it so until the car’sspeed catches up. AllCVTs do it, but thatdoesn’t make it OK.

Here’s an odd one. Thetest car got the best mile-age in Normal drivingmode. Switching into EVorEcosettingsquicklybe-gan eroding thempg tally.Satisfying, actually: Be-have normally, get re-warded.

Leaving the car in EVvery long, Toyota says,drains the battery andtriggers the gas engine torun longer to recharge it.That quirk, combinedwith EV mode’s refusal towork faster than 25 mphor for even 1 full milemake it seem senseless.

Toyota introduced theoriginalPrius intheU.S. in2000, a few months afterHondapioneeredthemod-ern hybrid with its origi-nal egg-shaped, two-seat

Insight.But thePrius,nowin its

third generation, quicklybecame the dominant gas-electric hybrid. In Febru-ary, Toyota began expand-ing Prius from a singlemodel, nowcalled theLift-back, to a family of hy-brids with the U.S. launchof the largerPriusv.Then,in April, the smaller Priusc hit showrooms.

Regardless of whetheryou think Toyota is gam-ing the sales-counting sys-tem, you have to considerPrius a success.

So, too, the c: frisky, in-viting, easy topark,classi-er than expected, com-fortable (at least in front)and faithful to its mpgpromise.

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TOYOTA PRIUS C» What: Front-drive,

four-door, subcompact,hybrid hatchback, new tothe lineup. The “c” standsfor “city” to indicate itsintended place in theworld, Toyota says.» Where:Made in Japan» Howmuch: Starting

prices range from $19,710including shipping forversion 1 to $24,000 forversion 4. Test car was a$23,519 version 3.» Whatmakes it go:

1.5-liter four-cylinder gaso-line engine rated 73 horse-power at 4,800 rpm, 82pounds-feet of torque at4,000 rpmmated to electricmotor via continuouslyvariable-ratio automatictransmission. Total com-bined rating, 99 hp» How big: About 19

inches shorter, 2 inchesnarrower and 542 poundslighter than Prius Liftbacksedan. Prius c is 157.3 incheslong, 66.7 inches wide, 56.9inches tall on a 100.4-inchwheelbase. Weight, 2,500poundsPassenger space, 87.4

cubic feet» How thirsty: Rated 53

miles per gallon in the city,46 mpg, 50 mpg combined.Test car registered 49.1mpg(2.04 gallons per 100 miles)in suburban be-bop. Burnsregular; holds 9.5 gallons» Overall: Fun way to

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The newest member of the Prius family, the c, brings the fun back to energy-saving models. PROVIDED PHOTOS/TOYOTA

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The surprisingly spa-cious 500L four-door wag-on should expand thebrand’s appeal signifi-cantly.

Checking in 26 incheslonger and 6 inches widerthan the subcompact 500,the L adds practicalitywithout diminishing thelittle car’s charm.

Big windows, a highroof and a dual-pane sun-roof amplify the interior’sfeeling of spaciousness.The 500L is about a footshorter than aHonda Civ-ic sedan but has consider-ably more passenger andluggage space.

Power comes from a160-horsepower, 184pound-feet version of Fi-at’s 1.4-liter four-cylinderturbo engine and a six-speed manual or dual-clutch automatic trans-mission.

The 500L will be avail-able as a two-tone model

with a black orwhite roof,or with a body-color roof.The Trekking model adds17-inch tires and tough-looking black fascias andwheel arches.

Despite its SUV-style

profile, the 500L onlycomes with front-wheeldrive. Fiat builds the 500Lin Serbia.

This small crossoverwagon will be availablethis summer.

The 2014 Fiat is about a foot shorter than a Honda Civic sedan but has considerably morepassenger and luggage space. FIAT/PROVIDED PHOTOS

500L mimics SUVwith small-car charmDetroit Free Press

FIAT

The 2014 Fiat 500L only comes with front-wheel drive.

General Motors hopesto carve out a new autosales segment with theBuick Encore compactcrossover.

The automaker also ex-pects the Encore to con-tinue the brand’s momen-tum among younger buy-ers and people who don’town a GMproduct.

The percentage of thebrand’s buyers who previ-

ously ownednon-GMvehi-cles rose from 27 percentto 43 percent over the lasthalf decade. More than 50percent of Verano buyersare new to Buick.

“That’s part of the mis-sion for this brand,” saidTony DiSalle, vice presi-dent of marketing forBuick and GMC.

The vehicle’s arrivalcomes after a mixed yearfor the brand, which re-ported a 1.6 percent salesincrease in the U.S. to

180,408 vehicles. Sales ofRegal, LaCrosse and En-clave fell, and GM elimi-nated the Lucerne, but theintroduction of the Veranomade up for the differ-ence.

Dan Akerson, GM’sCEO, told reporters thismonth that Buick “hasshown incredible resil-ience post-bankruptcy”with strong resale valuesand pricing. He called it a“sub-luxury” brand thatmaintains a distinct posi-

tion in themarketplacede-spite occasionally overlap-ping with “the high end ofChevrolet and the low endof Cadillac.”

The five-seat Encoreenters a relatively newsegment of small cross-overs that several auto-makers say will balloon insize over the next fewyears. GM contends it willappeal especially to youngprofessionals and empty-nesters. The crossoverranges from $24,950 for

the basic model to $28,840for the premium packagewith combined averagefuel economyof 28mpgonthe front-wheel drive ver-sion.

The Encore’s introduc-tion comes as the averageage of Buick buyers hasfallen over the last fiveyears from 64 to 57. GMsays Buick is the only ma-jorbrand in theU.S. to low-er its average buyer’s ageover that time

Now that we’ve got a

second crossover in theportfoliowe’regoingtoseenew folks again cominginto the showroom,” saidLloyd Biermann, market-ingmanager for the BuickEnclave andEncore cross-overs. “They’regoingtobeyounger, as well.”

The Encore could com-pete against vehicles likethe Volkswagen Tiguanand the forthcoming Fiat500L.GMsaiditexpects60percent of Encore buyersto be women.

BUICK

Encore takes Buick into new segmentBy Nathan BomeyDetroit Free Press

The five-seat Encore enters a relatively new segment of small crossovers that several automakers say will balloon in size over the next few years. PROVIDED/GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

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Cadillac needed an en-try car more like theBMW 3 Series. Instead ofadapting hardware fromGeneral Motors’ GermanOpel brand, as GM hasdone lately, Cadillac start-ed from scratch and cameup with the ATS.

It’s the smallest, light-est, least-expensive Cad-dy and the only one offer-ing four-cylinder engines.

It ismost definitely nota repeat of the best-for-gotten Cimarron of the1980s, a once-over-lightlyCaddy redo of the small,four-cylinder ChevroletCavalier that fooled noone andpleased even few-er.

ATS might lack thepurely Germanic feel of aBMW or Audi, but it isroundly satisfying todrive. It provides crisphandling, quick accelera-tion, snappy braking, re-sponsive steering, enter-taining technology and analluring base price of$33,990.

The average transac-tion price of a new carthese days is $30,200, ac-cording to price trackerand researcher TrueCar-.com. And the 3 Seriesthat’s in Caddy’s cross-hairs is $3,405 more ex-pensive, though it comeswith more power: 240horsepower vs. 202 horse-power from theATS’ base2.5-liter four-cylinder.

The other two ATS en-gines:

» New-design 2-literturbo four rated 272horsepower and 260pounds-feet of torque.

» GM’s 3.6-liter V-6rated 321 hp, 275 pounds-feet.

Wedrove thebasefour-cylinder with automaticand the turbo four withmanual on public roads,and a turbo four/manual

and V-6/automatic on thetrack at Atlanta Motor-sportsPark,aprivatecluboutside Dawsonville, Ga.

Impressions:» Track. Everybody

ought to have access to a

race course to exercisethis kind of car.

The manual transmis-sion that felt too stiff andbalkyon regular roadsbe-came just-so in slap-it-hard track driving. And

theautomatic in theV-6, in“sport” mode, recognizedwhen you approached acorner and downshiftedto let a lower gear helpyou scoot through. And itheld the gear all the way

through thecorner, resist-ing an automatic’s normalurge to upshift too soon.

There’s a manual-shiftmode, so you can do thegear-changing yourself,but itwas hard to fault the

automatic’s operation.» Engines. Eager,

husky-voiced andquick toanswer the throttle. But ifyou drive the turbo four

CADILLAC

ATS challenges German rivalsBy James R. HealeyUSA TODAY

Cadillac ATS may be the brand’s answer. It will especially appeal to entry-level luxury buyers, who tend to be incredibly brand loyal. GETTY IMAGES

ABOUT THECADILLAC ATS» What: New-from-

scratch small Cadillacfour-door sedan meant tochallenge BMW 3 Series.Available with one of twonew four-cylinder enginesor a V-6. Rear-wheel drive(RWD) or all-wheel drive(AWD).» Where:Made at

Lansing, Mich.» Howmuch: $33,990

to about $55,000, withshipping» What makes it go:

Base: 2.5-liter four-cylin-der rated 202 horsepowerat 6,300 rpm, 191 pounds-feet of torque at 4,400rpm.Optional: 2-liter tur-

bocharged four rated 272hp at 5,500 rpm, 260pounds-feet at 1,700 rpmOptional: 3.6-liter V-6

rated 321 hp at 6,800rpm, 275 pounds-feet at4,800 rpmSix-speed manual or

automatic transmission.» How big: Exterior’s

within half an inch of aBMW 3 Series sedan everywhich way. ATS is 182.8inches long, 71.1 incheswide, 55.9 inches tall on a109.3-inch wheelbase.Weighs 3,315 to 3,629pounds. Passenger space:90.9 cubic feet; trunk,10.2 cubic feet

Tows up to 1,000poundsTurning circle diameter:

36.4 to 38.1 feet, depend-ing on model and tires» How thirsty: Gov-

ernment has rated onlythe base, 2.5-liter RWDmodel: 22 mpg city, 33highway, 26 in city/high-way mixGM 2-liter RWD to be

about 22/32/26; V-6 RWD,19/28/23. AWD will be 1 or2 mpg less.2.5-liter automatic test

car registered 28.5 mpg(3.51 gallons per 100miles) on hilly, ruraltwo-lane roads withoccasional hard accelera-tion and use of manual-shift mode in the auto-matic.2-liter turbo manual

test car registered 23.2mpg (4.31 gal./100 mi.) onhilly, two-lane backroads.All engines burn reg-

ular; Cadillac recom-mends but doesn’t re-quire premium for 2-literturbo four. Tank holds 16gallons.» Overall: Bull’s-eye

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Like fashion and food, autotrends fade and re-emerge.Sometimes the new becomesrote, and innovations later seemstaid.

So I’m reminded when I stepinto the 2013model of the Infin-iti FX, a handsome crossoverwhich got its start a decade ago.

The 2003 FX was wild andnew.Built onamidsizecarchas-sis, it made no claims of climb-ing mountains. Rather, its ag-gressive shape promised styleand quick handling. The round-ed roof swooped down dramat-ically in the rear.

It was a crossover before thename became popular.

I haven’t put a foot in an FXfootwell for many years, andwas curious how it’s stood thetest of time. Look around at oth-er SUVs and crossovers today,from the Land Rover Evoque to

theAudiQ5, andmanyof thede-sign elements like the droppingroof have become standard.

Buyers can opt for the FX37,which starts at around $45,000for a 3.7-liter V-6 engine, or the5.0-liter V-8 FX50, which ismore than $61,000. I drove anFX37 with the optional all-wheel-drive, $57,250 as tested.

That’s a fairly steep price,putting it in line with very com-petitive players from BMW,Lexus and Audi.

My FX37 came in an attrac-tive “iridium” blue with lots of

brightwork around the win-dows and grill. It had optional20-inch alloy wheels, a $3,300package that includes climate-controlled seats and wood ve-neers in the interior.

Crossover LookThe big wheels filled out the

arches nicely, giving the FX acompelling stance. To my eye,the FX looks modern and easilyas interesting as many all-newcrossovers. Curious, because

INFINITI

The Infiniti FX target buyer is the crossover lover who prefers style over room. PROVIDED PHOTOS/INFINITI

Infiniti FX edgy rival to BMWBy Jason H. HarperBloomberg News 2013 INFINITI FX37 AWD AT A GLANCE

Engine: 3.7-liter V-6 with 325 horsepower and 267 pound-feet oftorque.Transmission: Seven-speed automatic.Gas mileage per gallon: 16 city; 22 highway.Price as tested: $57,250Best feature: The design, which stands the test of time.Worst feature: The suspension could use performance tweaks.Target buyer: The crossover lover who prefers style over room.

See INFINITI FX, Page I19The 2013 Infiniti FX’s 3.7-liter V-6 engine boasts 325 horsepower and267 pounds per feet of torque.

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when itwasfirst releasedseveral colleagues andfriends said it lookedweird and wouldn’t last.

Other more recentavant-garde crossoverslike theAcuraZDX,Hon-da Crosstour and theBMW X6 have also beencriticized for their de-signs, and I’m not sureany of them will bearound in a decade’stime.

Driving around thecity, it’s easy to see theFX’s allure. It rides high,so you can commanding-ly see about you, but isnarrow enough to slippast double-parkedtrucks without having tosweat centimeters.

The dynamic exteriorshape does affect interi-or space. Middle rearpassengers will becramped, and room be-hind the rear seats is lim-ited (24.8cubic feet). Soc-cer families need not ap-ply.

Luxury GameTo stay in the luxury

game, the FX has kept upwith modern conve-niences. Leather is stan-dard, as is the de rigueur(and irritating) stop/startbutton.

There’s a Bose stereosystem with satellite ra-dio that, at one point, in-formed me via an on-screen pop-up message:“Justin Bieber is playingon channel 12; would youlike to listen to it?” No,system, I wouldn’t. Butthanks for the heads-up.

Some elements arehappy throwbacks.Whilethe infotainment systemhas an eight-inch touchscreen, there are also re-dundant hard buttonswhich perform the samefunctions. There are

knobs, too – gloriousknobs which effortlesslyallow you to turn the heator air conditioning up ordown, in one, simpletwist.

The FX37 has325 horsepow-er, more thanthe originalV-8-pow-eredFX45.And

whilethatoriginalFX45seemedflush withpower 10 yearsago, these days weexpect to see ourhigh-performingV-8sputout something more akinto the Jeep Grand Chero-kee SRT8, with 470 hp.

The FX50 gets a de-cent 390 hp out of its 5.0-liter V-8.

Too bad the V-6 pow-ered FX37 manages only267 pound-feet of torque,which makes it appearlackadaisical trying toget away from a greenlight.

Modern LoveSimilarly, the steering

is a bit dull, the handlingponderous. The suspen-

sion feels like itcould use

somemodernlove.TheFX’s promise ofsporty handling justdoesn’t hold up to com-petitors.

Still, I can’t help re-turning to its looks. With-in its parent company,Nissan, there are now od-der – and far uglier –choices. Take a look atNissan’s small, quirkyJuke crossover, or thedownright bizarre con-vertible SUV, called theMurano CrossCabriolet.

(At morethan

$45,000,it isn’t cheap, either.)

Meanwhile, Infinitiwill soonbeemployinganall-new naming strategy,wherein all of themodelswill be branded with a Q.The FX will become theQX70.

No matter what youcall it, theedgycrossoveris still one of the bestthings to have come fromInfiniti. Ten years on, I’mglad it’s still with us.

Infiniti FXContinued from Page I18

or the V-6 first, thebase four will

seem tepid.Caddysays thebase en-gine in arear-

wheel-drive

car runsfrom stand-

still to 60 mphin 7.5 seconds.

The turbo four, 5.7seconds (automatic)

or 5.8 seconds (manual);the V-6, 5.4 seconds.

AWD cars are heavier,so those 0-60 mph timeswould be slower.

Caddy expects mostbuyers tochoosetheturbofour/automatic.

» Room. Back seat’s abit snug, but two adults ofnormal stature should becomfortable.Front’squiteagreeable.

» Dynamics. Definedhereashowthecarmoveswhen andwhere it should,and doesn’t when andwhere it shouldn’t. Allgood.

Steering’s nicely cen-tered, responsive. Sus-pension is firm, but notharsh. Optional FE3 mag-netic suspension is com-pliant and firms up fastwhen the road demands.Brakes are wonderfullyfree of the spongy-pedalfeel, andtheyseemtohaulthe car down promptlyfrom high speed.

» Tech. The full-onCUE (Cadillac user expe-rience) system lets youamuse yourself for hourslearningthings it’lldo thatyou didn’t even know youmight want a car to do.

Favorite, ifnotveryex-otic, feature: 60 virtualpush-buttons.Youcandis-play several at a time onthe bottom of the screen.Use them to store not justfavorite radio stations butfrequent navigationdesti-nations, oft-used phonenumbers, songs thatmight be on one of thethree devices you canplug into the three USBports (one of which islighted, hallelujah). Whydid it take so long?

Not sogood: slidingbarfor stereo volume. Knobs,please. No better way.

» No start-stop. Ap-plause. Nobody’s done itright yet. It saves fuel bykilling the engine when itneedn’t run, such as atlong stoplights. But re-starts are jerky and clun-ky in most vehicles, in-cluding the BMW3Seriesthat is ATS’ rival.

ATS is adelight, and itsunique platform will mi-grate across the ocean toGM’s troubled Opel inGermany, and perhapsinto Chevrolet or Buicksedans.

ATS is the crediblestarter model Caddy hasneeded to snag entry-lux-ury buyers, who areamong the most brand-loyal. And the use of ATShardware elsewhere inGM makes ATS the startof something good.

ATSContinued from Page I17

Volkswagen’s newestJetta has thehighestmile-age rating ever – a com-bined 45 miles per gallonin city and highway trav-el.

It doesn’t use dieselfuel, though, as previoushigh-mileage Jettas have.

The 2013 Jetta Hy-brid’s four-cylinder en-gine sips gasoline and ismated to an electric mo-tor.

The compact Jetta Hy-brid sedan is only Volks-wagen’s second gas-elec-tric hybrid in the UnitedStates. The first was theTouareg Hybrid sportutility vehicle, which de-buted in the 2011 modelyear.

High mileage isn’t theonly surprise of the JettaHybrid. This is a spunky

hybrid whose accelera-tion and low-end “oomph”are strong enough to pushpassengers’backs into theseats.

Thereason:Theengineisbothdirect-injectedandturbocharged to deliver150 horsepower and up to184 foot-pounds of torque.This torque, by the way,comes on at a low enginespeed of 1,000 rpm.

Meantime, theonboardelectric motor deliversmorepowertopushtheto-tal horsepower to 170.

Pricing for the 2013gasoline-electric JettaHybrid is some $8,000more than that of a baseJetta.

But it’s just $1,900more than the startingprice of a Jettawithdieselengine, and it’s only $755more than the base retailprice of a new Toyota Pri-us.

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Gas Jettahybrid topsdiesel’smileageBy AnnM. JobAssociated Press

Armed with advanced fea-tures andexceptional fuel econ-omy, the 2013Ram1500 SLT 4x4pickup is the first V-6-poweredfull-size pickup that doesn’tsneer “cheapskate” every timeyou start the engine.

Until now, V-6 pickups weregenerally low-priced base mod-els with little power or appeal.The Ram changes that, with along list of advanced featuresand a correspondingly highprice. It offers outstanding fueleconomy; though the 3.6-literV-6’s relatively light torque out-put is apparent under highwayand mid-range acceleration.

The 2013 Ram 1500 goes onsale in October. Prices start at$22,590 for a rear-wheel driveregular cab model with a 305-horsepower 3.6-liter V-6 andeight-speed automatic trans-mission.

Like most full-size pickups,the Ram 1500 offers a dizzying

array of combinations of caband bed size, drivetrains andtowing capacity.

There are three cab sizes –regular, quad and crew.

The drivetrain lineup con-sists of the V-6, a 310-horsepow-er 4.7-literV-8 or 395-horsepow-er 5.7-liter Hemi V-8. A six-speed automatic transmissionis standard with the V8s.

The eight-speed will beavailablewith theHemiearly in2013. Rear-wheel drive, part-time and on-demand four-wheel

drive are available. The1500 of-fers three bed lengths: 5 feet 7inches, 6 feet 4 inches and 8feet.

Quad cab prices start at$27,185. Crew cab models startat $29,765.

I tested an extremely well-equipped V-6 Ram 1500 CrewCab SLT 4x4 with an estimatedsticker price of $45,325. Allprices exclude destinationcharges.

Thanks to its exquisite eight-speed automatic transmission

and Chrysler’s jack-of-all-trades Pentastar V-6, the 1500’sfuel economy, features and ca-pability far exceed other V-6full-size pickups.

The Ram’s worth the money,but there are some trade-offs.

On the plus side, the rear-drive V-6 rated 17 mpg in thecity, 25 on the highway and 20combined in EPA tests.

In addition to the new engineand transmission, several aero-dynamic, engineering andweight-saving tricks contribute

to the 1500’s fuel economy.The V-6 1500 can tow up to

6,500 pounds – 6,250 for 4x4s. Itowed a 4,000-pound speedboataround the Tennessee hills withease in a rear-drive 1500. V81500s can tow up to 9,250pounds.

The V-6’s horsepower com-pares reasonably well to mostother automakers’ smallerV-8s.It can’t match their torque,however. That leads to some-what challenged accelerationon the highway and at mid-range speeds. It’s one of thetruck’s few shortcomings.

The roomy interior featuredgood seats, plenty of storage,straightforward controls and apleasing design.

According to the EPA, a 4x4V-6 1500 like the one I testedwould use $500 to $1,200 a yearless fuel than competitive V-84x4 crew cab pickups.

That payoff goes a long waytoward excusing the V-6’s highprice and unexciting highwayacceleration.

Pricey pickup has top-notch fuel economyByMark PhelanDetroit Free Press

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A hearty attaboy toMitsubishi for, deliber-ately or otherwise, chal-lengingNissan’sLeafbat-tery car and Chevrolet’sVolt extended-rangeelec-tric with a Mitsubishielectriccar that, likeLeafand Volt, you can buy na-tionwide.

Of course, there arefewer Mitsu dealers thanNissan or Chevy dealers,so going down to the cor-ner store for aMitsubishii isn’t the lithium-ioncinchMitsu might wish.

Mitsu’s good inten-tions are acknowledged,but aweek in the iwasun-settling, unsatisfying.

Take the appearance:Tall and slender is OK forfashion models, but adreadfulapproach toautodesign. The i looks like anegg in heels. It corners abit like one, too.

And the naming de-partment needs to findother work. The car’smoniker looks like a typo-graphical error. It’s alsowrong-headed. “I” is self-ish, and electrics are“we” cars, their fans willtell you ad nauseam,meant for the greatergood. In other marketsthecar is i-MiEV(forMit-subishi Innovative Elec-tric Car). The name i-MiEV is also ridiculousbutat least longenough tobe a real name, not a typo.

The Mitsubishi re-charging system, appar-ently designed by ner-vous lawyers, restrictshow fast the electricitycan flow in. A safety is-sue, the automaker says,because while the carsurely is juice-proof, notelling if your house canhandle it.Thus, it cantakeup to 22.5 hours to re-charge the car using your

120-volt home outlet.If you use the optional

240-volt charger, it takesseven hours, Mitsubishisays. If you can find a so-called level 3 charger –480 volts – you can gofrom discharged to 80percent full in30minutes.

The suspension gurusmight need some re-edu-cation. They start with a100-inch wheelbase,which is huge for theoverall size of the car; infact it’s some 69 percentof the car’s entire length,and should almost guar-antee a smooth ride. In-stead, the i jiggles andslaps and jumps andslams over ordinary roadsurfaces.

Even if you like every-thing else about the i, theride gets tiresome prettyearly in the relationship.

And here’s a sure wayto offend American buy-ers: Brand them as sec-ond-class by refusing tochange the gearshift pat-tern to suit the left-hand-steering that Americansuse. It’s set up for Japan-market right-side steer-ing, so the tugs and yanksyouneedtomovethefloorshift through the gear-se-lection are backward forU.S. users. As much asanything, it’s a symbolthat the i isn’t meant to betaken seriously here.

Let’s not overlook theprice. It starts at about$30,000, before the gov-ernment’s $7,500 income-tax credit that some buy-ers will be able to claim.And you’ll want a 240-voltcharger installed athome, so add $1,000 to$2,000 or so. The total islow for an electric (Leafstarts at about $36,000;Volt, about $40,000), buthigh for a small car that’snot especially pretty orpleasant.

The good parts mainly

are those typical of elec-trics.

Decent low-speedscoot, because electricmotors give you all theyhave the instant they be-gin to turn.

Relative quiet. Notmuch road or wind noise.The electric motor is inback instead of the usualfront location, so anywhines or whirs from themotor are more distantfrom your ears.

The i is excellent withthe windows down. Nowind slap, just a lightbreeze. In fact, air flowsso elegantly with the win-dows open that plastic-bagged hanging dry-cleaning doesn’t flap.

Because it’s so good atairflow through andaround the open cabin,you need to use the airconditioningless,andthathelps save the battery.

Controls and gaugesare straightforward, easyto find and use. They ag-gressively eschew theelectronic complexities

some alt-power cars loadup on to enhance theirgee-whiz quotient.

A teaser test car fromthe Japan market testedhere two years ago hadpromise. It seemed as if it

couldbeacute, funway toelectrify your mobility,once recast for the Amer-ican market.

But the real U.S. ver-sion seems less tailoredfor its intended buyers

thanexpected.Mitsubishihopes it’ll be seen as anentry electric, with there-fore forgivable foibles.

Instead, it seems morelike an unfinished pro-ject.

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Mitsubishi i electriclooks funny, rides roughBy James HealeyUSA TODAY

ABOUT THEMITSUBISHI I» What: Battery-electric, four-door, rear-drive, four-passenger minicar. Official U.S. name

is just i; elsewhere it’s the i-MiEV (for Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle)» Where:Made in Japan.» Why: Get attention by offering an electric car nationwide» Howmuch: ES starts at $29,975, including $850 shipping. SE is $31,975. Well-optioned

SE test car: $35,065.Add $1,000 or more for installed 240-volt home charging station that cuts recharge time

to about seven hours.Some buyers will qualify for $7,500 federal tax credit, plus state or local subsidies.» Howmany: Just 300 sold in the U.S. January through May, but nearly all to individual

buyers, not fleets, Mitsubishi says.» What makes it go: Electric motor rated 66 hp at 3,000 rpm, 145 pounds-feet of

torque from 300 rpm up; single-speed transmission.» How big: Not very. 144.7 inches long, 62.4 inches wide, 63.6 inches tall on a 100.4-inch

wheelbase. Weighs 2,579 pounds. Rated to carry 750 pounds of people, cargo and accesso-riesPassenger space 84.7 cubic feet Cargo space: 13.2 cubic feet behind rear seat; 50.4 cubic

feet when rear seat’s foldedTurning diameter, 30.8 feet» How thirsty: Rated 126 miles-per-gallon-equivalent in the city, 99 mpg-e on the high-

way, 112 mpg-e in combined use. Rated range: 62 miles. Charge time, up to 22.5 hours on120-volt household circuit.

» Overall: Small, choppy-riding, tinny-feeling, quiet, distinctive

The Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car motor is in back instead of the usual front location, so any whines or whirs from themotor are more distant from your ears. AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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Available features willinclude all-wheel drive,voice-recognition, Inter-net connectivity, blind-spot and cross-trafficalerts, and an 11-speaker,576-watt JBL audio sys-tem.

Prices start at $23,300.

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Ford’s popular Transit Con-nect compact commercial vanshould win new fans with a newseven-passengermodel anddri-vetrains projected to lift thethrifty commercial vehicleabove 30 mpg on the highway.

The Transit Connect hasbeen a surprising success, asmany small businesses turnedto the small front-wheel drivevan as a more maneuverableand fuel-efficient alternative tofull-size and minivans.

The newmodel comes in twowheelbases and can carry up to1,600 pounds of cargo. A 2.5-li-ter four-cylinder engine will bestandard. Top fuel efficiencywill come from a1.6-liter turbo.Both engines team with a six-speed automatic transmission.

The Transit Connect’s interi-or features a 6.5-inch touchscreen and MyFord Touch con-trols. Ford expects the five- orseven-passenger wagon toserve as a taxi and shuttle.

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From its 450-horsepower di-rect-injection 6.2-liter V-8 en-gine to a lightweight body that’sabout as long and slightly widerthanaPorsche911, toapairof in-tricately detailed Stingraybadges on the front fenders, the2014 Corvette Stingray passedthe test. The base version of thenew ’Vette will accelerate to 60mph in less than 4.0 seconds andexceed the magic 1G number incornering grip.

The seventh generation ofAmerica’s greatest sports caralso offers a five-position driv-ing mode selector that adjusts adozensystems fordifferentper-formance profiles. A seven-speed manual transmission hasrev matching to adjust enginespeed for smooth shifts. A six-speed automatic is available.

The Stingray has 50/50weight distribution for optimalhandling.Lightweightmaterialsinclude a carbon fiber hood androof, composite fenders anddoors, carbon nano-compositeunderbodypanelsandanewalu-minum frame.

The interior – frequentlycriticized as the one mundaneaspect of previous ’Vettes – in-cludes a small and sporty 14.1-inch diameter steering wheeland trim made from real alumi-num or low-gloss, tactile carbonfiber. Magnesium frame seatswill be available with regularcontours or a deeply sculptedCompetition Sport shape for ul-timate grip.

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Other design elements in-clude a low nose with a blackegg-crate grille and curvedfront fenders, hood and roof.The frame around the wind-shield seems to vanish for theappearance of a bubble-topfighter plane. On sale in the fall.

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The Dart heaps on featuresyou don’t expect in a compactcar, including some no compet-itor offers.

The Dart rolls into show-rooms next month with cushymaterials, sculpted seats, elec-tronic blind-spot alert, andsporty handling and perfor-mance.

Despite a few shortcomings,the 2013DodgeDart’s value andfeatures make it a strong com-petitor for compacts like theChevrolet Cruze, Ford Focus,Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra,Nissan Sentra, Toyota Corollaand Volkswagen Jetta.

Prices for the Dart start at$15,995 for a base model with a160-horsepower 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and six-speedmanual transmission. A six-speed automatic adds $1,100.

A turbocharged 1.4-literfour-cylinder is a $1,300 option.That engine combines good fueleconomy and spirited perfor-mance, thanks to 184-pound-feet of torque available from2,500 to 4,000 engine rpm.

The 1.4-liter comes with asix-speedmanual transmission.A $1,100 six-speed dual-clutchautomatic transmission will beavailable with the engine in thethird quarter. The $22,495 DartR/T will have a 184-horsepower2.4-liter and six-speed manualor automatic when it goes onsale in the third quarter.

I tested averywell-equipped$25,160 Dart Limited. It had the1.4-liter turbo, manual gearbox,touch screen controls, naviga-tion, leather upholstery andmore. All prices exclude desti-nation charges.

The 2013 Dart is the first carjointly developed by Chryslerand Fiat, the Italian automakerthat gained control of the Au-burn Hills automaker duringthe Great Recession.

Fiat provided Chrysler,Dodge and Jeepwith platforms,engines and technology to build

fuel-efficient small cars andcrossovers in exchange for acontrolling stake in Chrysler.

Chrysler engineers and de-signers reworked the platformFiat developed for the sportylittle Alfa Romeo Giuliettahatchback to create the Dart.Chrysler designers crafted theDart’s interior and exterior de-signs specifically for Americantastes.

I drove a Dart Limited fromChrysler’s introduction of thecar in Austin, Texas, where Irode with the Dart’s engineersand designers, to the New Or-leans Jazz Festival. I coveredwell more than 600 miles fromthe TexasHill Country’s sweep-ing curves to Houston’s super-highways and New Orleans’rough surface streets.

The car is roomy and com-fortable. The 97.2-cubic-footpassenger compartment is big-ger than the competitors’, withplenty of head, shoulder andlegroom. The 13.1-cubic-foottrunk is useful. The Cruze, Fo-cus, Elantra and Jetta offermore room.

Interior storage includes acavernous glove box, bins andmap pockets.

The interior materials aremostly excellent. Soft-touchpadded plastics with attractive

finishes cover the dash, arm-rests and the top of the doors inmost models.

The doors’ lower surfaces,around themap pockets, have ahard surface and unattractivelook. The sculpted leather seatsof the car I tested were com-fortable and attractive. Thethick leather-wrapped steering

wheel looks and feels solid andsporty.

Chrysler’s steering-wheel-mounted controls for cruise,voice recognition, phone andaudio are among the best in theauto industry. The rest of thecontrols are equally easy to use.

The dials and buttons in thecenter stack and the 8.4-inch

touch screen in the car I testedperformedwell, as did its voice-recognition for phone, audioand navigation.

The navigation voice-recog-nition had a small glitch when Idictated one address, butworked fine otherwise. You canconfigure theDart’s LEDgaugecluster to a variety of formats.The display is as sharp as high-definition television.

There’s notmuchwindnoise.Road noise from rough sur-faces was quite noticeable infast driving, however.

The car negotiated fastcurves well, but the ride gotbumpy on rough pavement. Theelectric power steering pro-vides good feedback and assistat all speeds.

The 1.4-liter turbochargedfour-cylinder has surprisingpower. There’s not much low-rpm torque, but performance isgood and passing is easy foranybody willing to rev the en-gine and shift the smooth six-speed fast and frequently.

Fuel economy is good: anEPA-rated 27 mpg city, 39 high-way and 32 in combined driv-ing. An upcoming Aero modelwill use special tires and light-weight parts to hit 41 mpg ormore on the EPA highway test.

However, the 1.4-liter turbouses premium fuel. The Dart’sother engines use regular.

The Dart’s main competitorsrun on less-expensive regular.That means the Dart’s annualfuel bill will be about the sameas less fuel-efficient models ofthe Focus, Corolla and Cruze,andmore than theCivic, despitethe Dart’s higher mpg, TheElantra’s annual fuel cost alsoundercuts the Dart. The 2.0-li-ter Sentra and 2.5-liter Jettawill cost more.

The Dart’s also a heavy car.The 3,191-pound curb weight ofthe one I drove is 180 to 485pounds more than its competi-tors. While the Dart’s weight ispartly due to its many features,like10 standardair bags,Chrys-ler might have won outrightfuel-economy and performanceleadership with a lighter car.

Those flaws keep the 2013Dart from scoring a cleanbull’s-eye, but the value, fea-tures, performanceandroomofDodge’s new compact are on-target enough towin lots of hap-pyowners andmake thecompe-tition uneasy.

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The 2014 GMC SierraSLT features anall-new bold andrefined design.

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While the $28 billionannual automotive custo-mization market offersthousands of products totransform any car ortruck, some models offermore options for person-alization than others.

Oneway to learnwhichcars and trucks are themost accessory-friendlyis to check out the SEMAAward winners, present-ed annually by the Spe-cialty Equipment MarketAssociation (SEMA).

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Nissan’sutilitariansub-compact sedan retains theVersaname,but thehatch-back – all new for the 2014model year – switches tothe better-equippedmodelthat’s sold as the Note inother parts of the world.

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Cadillac’s new 2013XTS sedan snags a re-markable number of dou-ble-takes.

Good sign for this vehi-cle,whichwill standasthe“big” Caddy until thebrand finishes develop-ment of a bigger one,about which it will say lit-tle. Cadillac marketingboss Don Butler hopes tosell 40,000 of the XTS ayear, perhaps a quarter ofCaddy’s U.S. sales.

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» Visually pleasant, in-side and out.

» Comfortable, espe-cially inbackwherethe40inches of stated legroomequals that of a big SUV,and infact feels likemore.

» Quick, unexpectedlysobecausetheonlyengineis a 304-horsepowerV-6 ina car that weighs morethan two tons.

» Easyon fuel for a carof its size, weight and per-formance. Our real-worldmileage zipping throughthe canyons in an all-wheel-drive, high-endPlatinum model was 17mpg.Hardly a hybrid, butrespectable.

» Technologically gee-whizzed to the gills, withthe addedbenefit that youcan simplify the controlsand displays to suit if youare put off by the car’s at-tempt to do and show andcontrol everything.

One of the tech fea-tures you’ll see champi-oned as a safety benefit isthe vibrating driver’sseat. If the car’s sensors

think you could collidewith something on theleft, the left side of thedriver’s seat vibrates. Onthe right, the right side vi-brates. If the threat issquare-on, thewholechairwiggles.

Caddy says it’s an intu-itiveway towarn thedriv-er without a sudden audi-ble warning, which Cadil-lac believes can startleand distract.

The seat has an “off”switch, which we trig-gered, finding the vibrat-ing annoying more thancautionary.

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» Brakes are numb.Thepedalfeelsasif it’sdo-ing little to slow the car,and what it is doing is outof proportion with yourpedal pressure. In carsthatcangofast,beingableto slow and stop confi-dently is a key ability andonemissing fromXTS.

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But thatmeansyoucanget trapped in the full-manual shiftmode even ifyou’d be happier lettingthe gearbox make thechoices, or perhaps usingthe steering-column shiftpaddles to temporarilychoose gears.

» Handling isn’t crispand engaging, even in“sport.” The XTS isn’t asloppy driver, but neither

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Ferrari announces itsreturn to the auto showfor the first time since2009 with the roar of a730-horsepower 6.3-literV-12engine in thegloriousnew F12 Berlinetta two-seat coupe.

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Base price: $315,888.On sale this spring.

The latest Ferrari F12 Berlinetta is equipped with new aV-12 6,262-cc engine. AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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XTSContinued from Page I31

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With a silver body and linesthat flow like mercury, Hyun-dai’s HCD-14 concept points theway for the next rear-wheel-drive Genesis sedan.

The long dash-to-axle ratio,big wheels and a dramaticallysloped rear window create a re-fined profile. “Suicide” rear-hinged back doors create alargeopeningforeasyaccess.Afull-length center console de-signed to look like a crestingwave creates a four-seat layout

and provides a nook designedparticularly to hold iPads se-cure in spirited driving.

Thecontrolsdisposeof tradi-tional dials and buttons in favorof eye-tracking and gesture-recognition technologies for au-dio, navigation, climate andtelephone. Hyundai believesthe system will reduce distrac-tion and make it easier for thedriver to focus on driving.

Power comes from a 5.0-literdirect-injection V-8 enginelinked to an eight-speed auto-matic transmission.

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Fitted with a raised suspen-sion, unique wheels and somebold paint colors, Subaru’s newXV Crosstrek five-door hatch-back gets attention.

But the verdict is out onwhether potential buyers willsee the Crosstrek as a smartlyutilitarian tall wagon or whatSubaru officials sought to de-sign – a compact crossoversport utility vehicle.

Basically, the new-for-2013Crosstrek is a Subaru Imprezathat has been raised 3 inches,shod with larger tires on black-and-gray two-toned wheels andmildly restyled.

The Crosstrek uses the sameplatform as the Impreza, thesame 148-horsepower, horizon-tally opposed, four-cylinder en-gine and Subaru’s all-wheeldrive.

Nearly all the interior isfrom the Impreza, too.

But where the Impreza,which is Subaru’s entry-levelcar, blends in as a normal andpleasant-looking sedan and aslightly sporty-looking hatch-back, the unusual – some mightsay odd-looking – Crosstrektends to stand out in a crowd.

Price-wise, the Crosstrekcomes in at the higher range ofthe Impreza models and at thelower end of models of the Su-baru Forester compact SUV.

Startingmanufacturer’s sug-gested retail price, includingdestination charge, for a 2013XV Crosstrek is $22,790 withfive-speed manual transmis-sion and $23,790 with continu-ously variable transmissionthat a driver operates like anautomatic.

This compares with $19,165for a base, 2013 Impreza five-door hatchback with manualtransmission and the $22,090starting retail price for a base,2013 Forester with manual.

Note that the Forester isheavier, taller and longer in

overall length than the Cross-trek, while the Crosstrek isheavier, taller and a tad longerin overall length than the Im-preza hatchback.

All Crosstreks come stan-dard with all-wheel drive.

While federal crash testinghas not been reported, standardsafety equipment on everyCrosstrek includes seven airbags – one is for the driver’sright knee – alongwith stabilitycontrol, traction control, front-seat anti-whiplash head re-straints and antilock brakeswithBrakeAssist andElectron-ic Brake Distribution.

Subaru officials say compet-itors include compact cross-over SUVs, which are vehiclesbuilt on car-like platforms thatprovide a more comfortableride, rather than a brutishtruck-like ride.

Examples include the 2013Nissan Juke, which has a start-ing MSRP plus destinationchargeof$22,440withall-wheeldrive, 188-horsepower, turbo-charged four cylinder and CVT.

Note the Juke is available withfront-wheel drive and CVT at alower starting retail price of$20,780.

Meantime, the 2013 MazdaCX-5crossoverSUVhasa start-ing retail price of $21,790 with155-horsepower, naturally aspi-rated, four-cylinder engine, six-speedmanual transmission andfront-wheel drive. A base 2013CX-5 with all-wheel drive has astarting MSRP, including desti-nation charge, of $24,440.

While the Crosstrek’s for-eign looks grab attention, it isthe vehicle’s flexible interiorfor people and cargo that haveenduring appeal.

Cargo room behind the sec-ond-row seats measures 22.3cubic feet, and there’s small-SUV-like space of 51.9 cubicfeet with rear seats foldeddown.Bestofall, thecargoflooris up some, so people don’t haveto lean over to load and unloadthe back.

Headroom is less, in frontand back, than in the taller For-ester and the CX-5, but the

Crosstrek still has a commend-able 39.8 inches and 37.7 inchesof front and rear headroom, re-spectively, which is more thanwhat a Juke has.

There’s an impressive 43.5inches of front-seat legroom inthe Crosstrek, and while theback seat’s 35.4 inches is lessthan the Forester’s, both front-and rear-seat legroom are bet-ter than that in a Juke.

The Crosstrek’s interior, atleast in base Premium trim, ap-pears a lot like an Impreza’s.There’s considerable plastictrim in there and acceptablecloth upholstery on the seats,with front seats heated as stan-dard equipment. To get leather-trimmed seats, buyers mustmove up to the Limited model,which starts at $25,290.

For both the Limited andbase models, a moonroof andnavigation system are options,and a rear vision camera isavailable only on the priceyLimited.

The 2-liter, double overheadcam four cylinder worked hard

to keep up with other vehicleson uphill mountain highwaysections and to accelerate.

But mated to a fuel-savingCVT that droned incessantly,the engine’s power felt a bittapped at times in the 3,175-pound tester, particularly whenit carried four adults and suit-cases.

Peak torque is 145 foot-pounds at 4,200 rpm and com-pares with 177 foot-poundsstartingata low2,000rpmintheturbocharged Nissan Juke. Butit’s close to the 150 foot-poundsof peak torque delivered at4,000 rpm in the Mazda CX-5.

Paddle shifters on the steer-ing wheel let Crosstrek driversmanually “shift” the CVT andreduce the droning as the tran-ny then goes from one to anoth-er of six preset gear ratios. Still,this artificial fix conflicts withthe real reason to have a CVT,which is to maximize fuel econ-omy by allowing the transmis-sion to manage power deliveryitself.

For the record, the testCrosstrek with CVT averaged27miles per gallon in combinedcity/highway travel, which isless than the 28-mpg rating re-ported by the federal govern-ment.

Riding on 17-inch tires, thetest Crosstrek surprised withits stable handling.

Despite a ground clearanceof 8.7 inches, the Crosstrek testvehicle maintained its compo-sure in sudden emergency ma-neuversandremainedbalancedand flat in corners.

The high ride height provid-ed good views out to the trafficahead but didn’t make theCrosstrek feel tippy.

Best of all, the Crosstrek’sseats were well-positioned, somost passengers could just setthemselves onto the seats with-out climbing up or droppingdown.

Electric power-assist rack-and-pinion steering felt a bitnumb but was acceptable.

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The 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek’s design and bold color stands out in a crowd. PROVIDED PHOTOS/SUBARU

Crosstrek blends look, utilityBy AnnM. JobAssociated Press

There is 43.5 inches of front-seat legroom in the Crosstrek. Front seats heated as standard equipment.


Justayearafter thenew3se-ries went on sale, BMW adds anew entry-model priced at$32,550.

The 320i has an impeccable50/50 weight distribution and a2.0-liter turbocharged 180-horsepower engine.A six-speedmanual or eight-speed automat-

ic transmission will be avail-able. The 320i accelerates to 60mph in 7.1 seconds and shouldmatch the fuel economy of themore powerful 328i.

In addition to the base rear-drive model, an all-wheel drive320xi will be available.

This car is expected to beavailable in late spring.

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Anew,2013sportutilityvehi-cle is at the top of the fuel mile-age charts, and it’s not fromHonda or Toyota.

The smartly packaged, func-tional and new-for-2013 MazdaCX-5 earned a combined city/highway fuel economyrating of29 miles per gallon from thefederal government.

This puts the CX-5 ahead ofcompetitors such as the well-known Honda CR-V and ToyotaRAV4.

It also means the CX-5 tiesthe 2013Nissan Juke, which is asmaller-sized SUV, as best fuel-sipper among non-hybridSUVs.

Better still, while the Juke’sturbocharged four cylinder re-quires premium gasoline, theCX-5’s naturally aspirated fourcylinder needs only regular un-leaded.

The CX-5 is a recommendedvehicle of Consumer Reportsmagazine,which lists reliabilityat better than average.

Mazda puts a lot of standardequipment into this five-pas-senger, crossover SUV. EveryCX-5 comes with 17-inch, alloywheels with Yokohama tires,rear spoiler, body-colored out-side mirrors and door handles,push-button start and one-touchpower up and down driver-sidewindow.

And with a starting retailprice of $21,790, value is part ofthe CX-5 story – to a point.

This starting retail price isfor a CX-5 with front-wheeldrive and six-speed manualtransmission.

Most drivers today buy auto-matics, and the starting price

jumps considerably – to $23,190– for a CX-5 with automatictransmission and front-wheeldrive. A 2013 CX-5 with all-wheel drive has a starting man-ufacturer’s suggested retailprice, including destinationcharge, of $24,440. All-wheeldrive is available only withautomatic transmission.

All CX-5s come with a 155-horsepower, naturally aspirat-ed, direct-injection four cylin-der.

The competing 2013 HondaCR-V,with185-horsepower fourcylinder, has a starting MSRP,including destination charge, of$23,625 with front-wheel driveand automatic. The CR-V’shighest government fuel econo-my rating is 26 mpg in com-bined city/highway driving fora front-wheel drive model.

The 2013 Toyota RAV4, witha176-horsepower four cylinder,debuts early next year and nopricing has been announced.The 2012 RAV4 has a startingretail priceof $23,495withauto-

matic and front-wheel drive.Mazda dropped its five-pas-

senger CX-7 SUV after the 2012model year to accommodate thenew CX-5.

It’s a good move, since the2012 CX7 had a higher startingprice – $22,985 for a base, front-wheel drive model – and wassimilarly sized to the CX-5.

But the CX-5’s smaller dis-placement engine, with carefulengineering toproducegood re-sponse and top fuel economy,outshone the CX-7’s, and CX-7sales have been sluggish.

Meantime, the CX-5, whichlaunched earlier this year, hasgarnered awards and salesaround the world.

For example, the CX-5 wasnamedCar of theYear in Japan.In Russia, which isMazda’s big-gest Europeanmarket, CX-5 or-ders are poised to easily sur-pass the company’s sales targetfor the whole year.

American car buyers willlike that the CX-5 has a stylishlook that makes it seem like it’s

in motion even when it’s stand-ing still. There are lines in theexterior metal that carry theeye along the sides of the vehi-cle, and the front and back tie inattractively.

It’s easy for easypetitewom-en to get inside the CX-5. Whilepassengers sit up a ways fromthe pavement, seats are well-positioned for most people tojust set themselves onto thecushions without needing toclimb up.

But there are only two interi-or colors offered – black andsand.

Standard cloth seats havepleasant upholstery, while theleather-trimmed seats in thetest CX-5 Grand Touring modellooked upscale and providedgood support.

The 41 inches of front-seatlegroom was a welcome sightfor a 6-foot passenger, and evenback-seat passengers get a gen-erous 39.3 inches. This is aninch more than what’s in theback seat of the CR-V and com-pares with only 32.1 inches ofrear-seat legroom in the small-er Juke.

Headroom is good, too, with40.1and 39 inches, respectively,in the front and back seats ofthe CX-5. These figures aremore than what’s in the CR-V.

Yet, the test CX-5 handledmore like a confident andpoised car than a taller-ridingSUV. The driver felt a notice-able connection to the pave-ment surfaces, andsteeringhadgood on-center feel and crisp,but not twitchy, response. Roadnoise came through from thetires on all but the smoothest ofasphalt.

The commendable body con-trol, which reduced any tippy

feeling in curves and turns,translated into a firm, but notharsh, ride.

One thing that surprised:The turning circle for this 15-foot-long SUV is 39 feet, whichis larger than that of many oth-er compact SUVs.

It’s true the CX-5’s 2-liter,double overhead cam, direct-in-jection four cylinder isn’t aspowerful as those of some com-petitors, including the RAV4and CR-V.

The CX-5’s engine torquepeaks at 150 foot-pounds at4,000 rpm,and therewere timesduring the test drive where theengine sounded buzzy and pres-sured.

But at idle, the test CX-5 wasimpressively quiet, and thetester averaged nearly 27 mpgin city/highway travel.

It felt good to have a normal-acting automatic transmissionwithsixgearssmoothlydeliver-ing thepower, rather thanacon-tinuouslyvariable transmissionthat can drone on and leave adriver wanting for pre-set shiftpoints.

The test CX-5 performedwell on city streets and flat ter-rain and exhibited some lug-ging when on uphill highwaystretches with a load of passen-gers inside.

Mazda does sell a trailerhitch and states the CX-5 cantow as much as 2,000 pounds.

Standard safety equipmentincludes six air bags, electronicstability control and tractioncontrol.

The CX-5 earned four out offive stars in overall crash testsby the federal government,with top, five-out-of-five starsin frontal testing and four out offive stars in side testing.

MAZDA

Mazda puts a lot of standard equipment into its five-passenger, crossover CX-5 SUV. Every CX-5 comes with 17-inch, alloy wheels with Yokohama tires, rear spoiler, body-coloredoutside mirrors and door handles, push-button start and one-touch power up and down driver-side window. PROVIDED PHOTOS/MAZDA

Mazda’s CX-5 SUV lands at topBy Ann JobAssociated Press

All CX-5s come with a 155-horsepower, naturally aspirated, direct-injection four cylinder. Interior colors are offered in black and sand.

As you walk up the sidewalk,you know this isn’t your father’sLincoln.

On the street, the new MKZhas all the hot looks of a perfor-mance sedan, with 19-inch gun-metal wheels and its slopedback. It’s about as far from aTownCar as you’ll get.

Wegota lookatandshortridein thenewMKZ, the first of fourmodels aimedat revivingFord’sflagging Lincoln luxury brand.

Lincoln’s Rich Kreder, whogaveusthespin,saysthenewse-dan takes aim at Cadillac CTSandLexusES350,amongothers.

We liked the way the MKZlookedwhen it was introduced –andwe liked it evenmore cruis-ing aroundWest Los Angeles. Itfelt cool, not stately.The mostnotable feature to set it apartfrom competitors is its slidingpanoramic roof. It’s the largestwe’ve seen – and the car’ssloped-back roof is perfect tohandle it.

The car rides quietly. Wecan’t talk about pep because wedidn’t drive, but we’re sure it’sperfectly adequate, probablynot spectacular. From the pas-

senger seat, we felt the centerconsole is too high, creating toomuch of a barrier between thedriver and front passenger.

One nice touch: Lincoln hasmoved the automatic transmis-sion controls to the dashboardand banished the pull-up handlefor the parking brake to createmore space. The center consolecontrol labels disappear whenthe car is off to enhance theclean, uncluttered look.

Prices start at $36,800 for thebase turbocharged 2-liter en-gine, and the hybrid version,whichwill be rated at 45miles agallon, is the same price. Themost upscale version with the3.7-literV-6enginewill go forupto $45,000.

Thecarwill beaimedat “pro-gressive luxury customers” –younger, upscale consumerswho know what they like anddon’t particular care what oth-ers think about their luxurychoices. “They are not into buy-ing the badge,” says Lincoln’sTom Kowaleski. If others don’tagreewiththem,fine.Theiratti-tude is “we’ll start our ownclub.”

With the new MKZ, they willnot only get a club, they mightsoon need a larger clubhouse.

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Lincoln seeks rebirthwith shapely MKZ

The 2013 Lincoln MKZ, aimed at younger, upscale consumers, starts at $36,800 for the base turbocharged2-liter engine and for the hybrid version. PROVIDED PHOTOS/FORDMOTOR COMPANY

Lincoln has moved the automatic transmission controls to the dashboard and banished the pull-up handlefor the parking brake to create more space.

By Chris WoodyardUSA TODAY


Less than two years af-ter the latest Civic rede-sign, here comes anotherone, so extensivelychanged that some auto-makerswould be temptedto call it “all new.”

It’s not, nor are a lot ofcars that are so labeled,but in this one there are afantastic number ofchanges for the better.The overhaul is extensiveenough to make a mock-eryof theacronymHondauses for midcycle up-dates:MMC(minormodelchange).

Honda says it beganworking on the updateseven before the 2012 hitthemarket19months ago,because it was evidentthat rivals were movingfaster.

“Our industry has nev-er been as fast-changing,”says Art St. Cyr, Honda’svice president of productplanning.

It’s mere coincidence,Honda says, that the 2013Civic updates should alsoquell the griping that the2012 triggered from therollout for a cheap-look-ing interior, clunky roadbehavior, styling thatmany have found unexcit-ing and a generally be-hind-the-curve persona.

Not that buyers havebeen insufficiently satis-fied by the 2012 Civic.Sales are zooming vs. lastyear, though it’s partly be-cause there was a short-age then, and there isn’tone now.

When Honda un-wrapped the 2013 Civic inNovember at the Los An-geles Auto Show (and si-multaneously put it onsale), the company put anupbeat face on the fast re-fresh. In Honda’s view,launching a car with somanychanges in “just onemodel year” should beconsidered admirable“speed to market.”

But the situation feelsunpleasantly more likethe tech industry, werenewproducts are put ontothe market before theyare ready, then updated inresponse to protest, leav-ing early adopters – oftena brand’s most-loyal buy-ers –with lesser products.

Honda is in a ticklishspot: What does it say tothe 200,000-some peoplewho bought the “old” new2012 Civic, now that the“new”new2013Civic is somuch better? “Oops,”seems insufficient.

Owners of 2012 Civicswill take a big hit on de-preciation if they try tounload theirs soon, saysLarry Dominique, presi-dent of ALG, which calcu-lates depreciation.

Making the 2013 Civicbetter:

»More sound-deaden-ing, including noise-re-

ducing pads and thickerwindshield and front win-dow glass.

» A stiffer chassis forbetter handling and roadfeel, andmore-responsivesteering. Included is anewcrashstructureto im-provesafetyratings in thenew partial-offset frontcollision tests.

»Nicerplasticandfab-ric inside, with more soft-touch materials, more at-tractive detailing andmore metal accents.

»More standard fea-tures, including a backupcamera on all models andan array of new infotain-ment features.

» Enough stylingchanges – hood and trunklid in addition to the nor-mal grille and light up-dates, adding about 2inches in length overall –to send the factoryguys tothe bar across the street,muttering about “who’sgonna pay for all this?”

The bill for the work isa weight boost of some 50to 90 pounds, dependingon model, and a priceboost of $160oneachmod-el. Modest for all the im-provements.

And, boy, are they im-provements.

Changes are noted im-mediately. The car lookssnappier, is quieter fromthe moment you turn thekey, feels firmer andmore agile, and has themantle of classiness thepredecessor lacked.

Interior changes thatmight sound inconse-quential add up to a bigdeal. Simply deepeningthe grain in dash and doorpadding makes it lookmore like leather and lesslike hard plastic. Not only

do things inside feel nicerto touch, they are nicer toview.

Seats are comfortable(not always true of Hon-das) and back seat leg-room will handle mostadults.

The recalibrated steer-

ing is a joy, avoiding thetwo common sins: so re-sponsive it’s twitchy, or sopower-assisted that it’snumb.

Thedriver informationdisplay tries for the same3-D effect it always hassought, and does a fair

job. Instrument lighting,unchanged, varies colorsto suggest how eco-sensi-tive your driving is.

The main driver dis-play is neither harder noreasier to read at a glancethan more conventionalgauges.

Unchanged: Drive-trains, trunk and passen-ger space, gas tank size.

Result: Civic’s now acar that’s fun to drive, notone that’s just OK. It feelsas if it’s a credible con-tender for best compact.

HONDA

Honda redo upgrades CivicBy James R. HealeyUSA TODAY

The 2013 Civic EXL looks snappier, is quieter from the moment you turn the key, feels firmer and more agile, and has the mantle of classiness thepredecessor lacked. PROVIDED PHOTOS/HONDA

ABOUT THE HONDA CIVIC»What? Fast update of Honda’s front-drive compact

sedan after just 19 months to catch up with market.»When? Gasoline-engine sedan went on sale in Novem-

ber, simultaneous with unveiling at Los Angeles AutoShow. Other models due soon.»Where?Made at Greensburg, Ind., and Alliston, On-

tario.» Howmuch? All models start $160 more than 2012s.

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Just 12 feet long and with anaerodynamic front end andabruptly chopped-off rear, theSpark could pass for an electriccar.

But there’s no plug and noproblem with fueling the 2013version of this Chevrolet, be-cause it comes with a gasoline-sipping, internal combustion,four-cylinder engine. (An elec-tric Spark is planned for 2014.)

While the 2013 Spark doesn’trival the government fuel econ-omy numbers of electric cars,its top government mileage rat-ing of 32mpg in city driving and38 mpg on the highway for amanual transmission model putit ahead of many competitors.For example, the best govern-

mentmileageratingfor the2013Honda Fit hatchback is 27/33mpg with manual transmission.

The Spark can come withhigh-tech features such assmartphone-integrated naviga-tion, Pandora personalized In-ternet radio, Stitcher Internetnews broadcasts and Bluetoothaudio streaming.

New for 2013, the five-doorSpark hatchback also is Chevy’sonly subcompact car and car-ries the lowest starting retailprice of the brand.

Chevy’s Spark has seats forfour, with a low, plastic areawith two exposed cup holderspositioned between the two rearseats.

It’s actually not apparent, atfirst, that there are two reardoors for access to these seats.This is because the doors sitnearly seamlessly into the sidestyling and door handles aretuckedup in thebackupperpartof the door windows

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The Viper exotic sports carreturns after a two-year breakwith a new brand name and anew persona, but the same oldsupercar looks and V-10 kick inthe pants. A low-slung body, ex-treme cab-rearward layout anddouble-bubble roof assurethere’s no mistaking the Viperfor anything else.

While the original Dodge Vi-per was aggressively retro, de-void ofmost electronic comfortanddrivingaid, the2013was re-christened as the flagship forChrysler’s SRT performancebrand. It hits the road with car-bon-fiber and aluminum bodypanels, voice-recognition,touch screen controls and Har-

man/Kardon audio. Soft-touchcoverings replace the previousViper interior's hard surfaces.Two different leathers areavailable.

Anupdatedversionof theVi-per’s 8.4-liter overhead-valvealuminum V-10 engine and six-speed manual transmissionpower the car to a 206-mph topspeed. Zero to 60 mph sprintsshould take just over 3.0 sec-onds.

TheViperGTSaddsfeaturesincluding an adjustable suspen-sion. GTS prices start at$122,995, including the federalgas-guzzler tax.

Baseprice: $99,995 (includesgas-guzzler tax).

The Viper goes on sale inMarch.

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Jeepwishes some of itsmostpassionate owners a happy newyear by adding a torque-ladenand fuel-efficient 3.0-liter V-6turbodiesel and an eight-speedautomatic transmission to theGrand Cherokee.

Gearheads have been beg-ging for diesel Jeeps to boostfuel economy without sacrific-ing off-road ability. The Fiat-produced 3.0-liter 24-valve V-6sounds like just the ticket. Itproduces 240 horsepower and awhopping 420 pound-feet oftorque – more torque thanChrysler’s 5.7-liter Hemi V-8.

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For 2013, the Nissan Path-finder sport utility vehicle islonger, wider and has a roomierinterior than its predecessor. Atthe same time, this new Path-finder is 500 pounds lighter.And with a 30 percent boost infuel economy, it tops all othermid-size crossover SUVs in sip-ping gasoline.

How can a bigger SUV belighter andmore fuel efficient?

Nissan engineers built theredesigned 2013 Pathfinder as aunibody, so the vehicle no long-er uses a heavy truck frame.Second, all Pathfinders nowcome with a fuel-efficient con-tinuouslyvariable transmission(CVT). And the V-6 engine is abit smaller, at 3.5 liters insteadof 4 liters, while a V-8 no longeris offered.

So,while towingcapacityhasdropped from 7,000 pounds inthe 2012 Pathfinder to 5,000poundsnow, thenewPathfinderproudly carries a governmentfuel economy rating of 20milesper gallon in city driving and 26mpg on the highway as a two-wheel-drive model.

Thisrating isbetter thanpre-vious mileage standouts in thecategory – the Honda Pilot andFord Explorer which, like thePathfinder, have three rows ofseats.

Another highlight: Startingretail prices for this fourth-gen-eration Pathfinder are lowerthan that of its predecessor.

Specifically, starting manu-facturer’s suggested retailprice, including destinationcharge, is $29,495 for a base2013 Pathfinder S with 260-horsepower V-6 and two-wheeldrive. The lowest starting retailprice, including destinationcharge, for a 2013 Pathfinderwith all-wheel drive is $31,095.

This compares with $30,115for a base 2012 Pathfinder withtwo-wheel drive and $32,115 fora base 2012 Pathfinder withfour-wheel drive.

Meantime, the 2013 HondaPilot starts at $30,350 with 250-horsepower V-6 and two-wheeldrive and $31,950 with four-wheel drive. The 2013 Ford Ex-plorer starts at $29,995 for afront-wheel drive model with290-horsepowerV-6 and $31,995with four-wheel drive

The new Pathfinder is re-styled, with some people likingthe lower-to-the-ground andmainstream family hauler lookon the outside.

Minimum ground clearanceunder the new Pathfinder is 6.5inches; last year’s Pathfinder,with its body-on-frame design,hadminimumgroundclearanceofmore than 8.5 inches. So, fans

of older Pathfinders, with itsrugged and taller appearance,may not be impressed.

The 2013 Pathfinder’s 3.5-li-ter double overhead cam V-6generates 260 horsepower in-stead of the 266 from last year’s4-liter V-6. Torque is reducedmore, going from 288 foot-pounds at 4,000 rpm to 240 at4,400 rpm.

But the test Pathfinder wasresponsive when acceleratingand didn’t lag, evenwhen it car-ried a full load of seven passen-gers.

The CVT, which a driver op-erates like an automatic trans-mission, worked smoothly andin satisfying fashion, and thecharacteristic drone sound thatwas expected wasn’t heard.

In fact, nothing much washeard inside the Pathfinder be-cause the vehicle is so quiet.Passengers in the tester didn’teven notice any wind noise athighway speeds. The interiorseemed as quiet as that of a lux-ury car.

Better yet, the tester aver-

aged 21.6mpg in combined city/highway travel. This is nearlyequal to the government’s com-bined 22-mpg rating. The aver-age mileage gave the test Path-finder a 420-mile range on a sin-gle tank of regular gasoline.

The 2013 Pathfinder retainsabove-it-all seating positionsthat give passengers and drivergood views out over traffic.

And even though the newPathfinder is shorter in heightby 3 inches from its predeces-sor, it offers improved head-room for passengers, particu-larly when amoonroof is not in-stalled. In the test vehicle, two5-foot-2 adults sat comfortablyin the third row, thanks to thisheadroom and expanded leg-room.

Plus, second-row seats cantravel 5.5 inches forward andback, so it’s easy to add morethird-row legroom, adjustingspace among the rows of seatsto accommodate everyone incomfort.

It’s alsoeasy tomovesecond-rowseats out of theway toallow

access to the third row. It takesjust the push of a finger on a le-ver at the side of a rear seat toget the seatback to fall forwardand the seat to slide forward.This leaves a good-sized spaceon the floor, by the door, for apassenger to put his or her feetwhile climbing up and into theback row.

CargoroominthePathfinderhas grown, too, to a competitive79.8 cubic feet when second-and third-row seats are foldeddown. When all of the seats areup and in use, cargo spacemea-sures 16 cubic feet, which isabout the same as in a HondaAccord sedan trunk.

Despite the 500-poundweight loss, the Pathfinder stillcan feel hefty on the road withless-than-crisp handling and aride that tends toward comfort-able and compliant rather thantightly controlled.

Passengers readily can no-tice body motions as this 16.4-foot-long vehicle travelsthrough curves and on twistymountain roads. Still, steering

response was notably good.A special touch in the tester

was how long the driver seatcushionwas. It came to thebackof the knees of a 5-foot-4 driverand provided exceptional sup-port.

Onecomplaint, however,wasthe weak illumination providedby the test vehicle’s halogenheadlamps. Upscale high-inten-sity discharge lights are notavailable.

Also, a rearview camera,which is really needed to seewhat’s behind the Pathfinderwhile a driver backs up, is stan-dard on SV trim levels andabove, but not on the base S. Incontrast,Honda includesastan-dard rearview camera on all Pi-lots.

The 2013 Pathfinder re-ceived four out of five stars,overall, in government crashtests, which includes five out offive stars in side crash testing.

Standard safety equipmentincludes electronic stabilitycontrol, antilock brakes, trac-tion control and six air bags.

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Honda’s 2013Accord sedanis handsomely restyled andre-engineered to bemore fuelefficient and refined than itspredecessor, and it offersmore technology, including astandard rearview camerathat’s an option onmajor com-peting sedans.

The new top-level Accordtouring model comes withstandard light-emitting diodeheadlamps similar to the oneson Audis. They are the firstLED headlights on an Accordand give the Accord a luxe-tech look.

This top Accord also has afirst-ever frontal collisionwarning system, and someAccords are available with acloud-based HondaLink sys-tem that provides hands-freeaccess to services, audio andinformation.

Consumer Reports predic-ts reliability of the five-seat2013 Accord will be betterthan average.

Best of all, the new Accordsedan’s starting retail prices

of $22,470 with four-cylinderengine and manual transmis-sion and $23,270with continu-ously variable transmission(CVT) that a driver operateslike an automatic are in-creased just $200 from the2012 Accord starting prices.

Even without factoring inthe new standard equipment,which includes dual-zone,automatic climatecontrol andthe 16-inch alloy wheels onbase 2013 Accords, the pric-ing is aggressive for Honda.

With sales of more than235,000 in calendar 2011, theAccord is Honda’s biggestseller. But following the pre-vious generation Accord thatgrew big, bland and cheap-feeling, the 2013 version iscritical for Honda.

There are both sedan andcoupe Accords, with four-cyl-inder and V-6 gasoline engineofferings. Later in the modelyear, hybrid Accords are due.

The base, 2.4-liter, doubleoverhead cam, four-cylinderwith Honda’s variable valveoperation called i-VTEC isnewandnowisdirect injectedfor sprightly performance.

It helps, too, that the 2013Accord has been sized downjust abit – it’s 3.5 inches short-er in length than its predeces-sor, for example – and thushas lost a few pounds.

Horsepower now is 185 or189, depending on the Accordmodel, instead of the177 fromlast year’s four-cylinder. Thefour-cylinder’s torque in-creasednoticeably to181foot-pounds at 3,900 rpm in thebase 2013 Accord from 161foot-pounds at 4,300 rpm.

Despite the power im-provements, the 2013 Accordhas better fuel economy rat-ings, in part because the auto-matic has been dropped fromfour-cylinder models and re-placed by a CVT, which uses awide power band, rather thanpre-set gears, to optimize gas-oline mileage.

The 278-horsepower, 3.5-li-ter, single overhead cam V-6that was in the test AccordTouring sedan was rated at 21/34 mpg and averaged 23.6mpg in combined city /high-way travel. The V-6 uses reg-ular gasoline.

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Accord makes bigchanges for 2013By AnnM. JobAssociated Press

Honda adds two gasoline-electric hybrids next year tothe new Accord lineup, both tobe sold as 2014 models, atprices not yet announced.

Next spring, expect a plug-in hybrid that Honda hopeswill be rated for 10 to 15 mileson battery power before thegas engine has to kick in.That’s a lot for a plug-in, whichuses much smaller batterypacks than full-electric cars.

A few months later, Hondawill launch a non-plug-in hy-brid, too.

We had a short time in a pre-productionversionof theplug-in and found itwonderful. Bestdriving feel of any electrifiedvehicle we can remember. Italso gets our vote as the bestversion of the new Accord.

The Accord’s hybrid sys-tem is a radical shift fromHonda’s simple system on theInsight and Civic hybrids. Ac-cord uses two electric motorsand a single-speed transmis-sion, teamed with a 2-liter gasfour-cylinder unique to theAc-cord hybrid.

It always uses electric pow-er to get rolling and for mostlow-speed driving (below 45mph). Electric motors aretorque monsters, so they don’tneed the help from low-trans-

mission gearing that gasolineengines require to jump andrun.

If the drain on the battery istoo much, the gasoline enginekicks in to run a generator.

At about 45 mph, Accord’sgas engine takes over and be-gins directly driving thewheels. Gas engines are moresuited to high speed.

It worked like magic in thetest car, which Honda says isrepresentative of how regularproduction models will feel.Stunningly quiet. No shud-ders, shakes, shimmies; no in-trusion of any kind as the hy-brid system moved betweengas and electric power. Not“almost none.” Absolutelynone.

And the electric motor’slow-speed punch made the Ac-cord frisky and fun. It alsoseemed to handle better de-spite the extra weight of thehybrid’s battery pack.

The car surrenders roughlyhalf its trunk to batteries,though. And it will come onlyas a single, well-equippedmodel, so is certain to be high-priced by Accord standards.

Still, it strikes us as worthwaiting to try the Accord plug-in before making a decision onwhich midsize sedan to put inyour garage. Nevermind theeco-benefits. The plug-in Ac-cord is just so sweet to drive.

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Called the S350 Bluetec andintroduced as a 2012 model, ithas all-wheel drive (called4Matic) standard. Starting at$93,425 with shipping, it is nearthe bottom of the S-Class pricelist. Only the S400 hybrid ischeaper, at $92,725.

That makes the S350 diesel arelative bargain. For just $700more, the diesel gives you the4Matic not available on the hy-brid, as well as better mileageand quicker acceleration. M-Bsays the hybrid sells best on theLeftCoast, the diesel in theEastand Snow Belt, and each ac-counts for about 5 percent of Ssales.

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Perversely, for all that low-speed torque, it can’t get out ofits own way from a dead stop ifyou nail the throttle. It oozesahead until about 8 mph, thenbegins to accelerate as you in-tended.

But, ifyouease into the throt-tle – push firmlyanddeliberate-ly – the car gets going accept-ably.

Mercedes-Benz acknowl-edges that “the engine will takea moment to spool up all sys-tems” but says the patternquickly becomes second na-ture.

Once underway, throttle re-sponse is vigorous and prompt.

Another perversity: Theseats adjust all manner of waysusing the on-screen pictogramand the big control knob on theconsole. Yet perfect comfortwas elusive. Mainly, the systemwouldn’t dial back the intrusive

lumbar push.The so-called dynamic seats

automatically inflate the sidebolsters to keep you in placeduring corners. But it also trig-gers at parking lot speed, keep-ing driver and front passengerin place during 3 mph parkingturns. It was adjustable to beless intrusive, but still bother-some. We turned that featureoff pronto.

The lane-departure warningalso was intrusive, though ef-fective.Cross the lane linewith-out using your turn signal andthe steering turns back the oth-er way, a warning comes on andthecar slows.Only thedeadwillfail to notice. Turned that oneoff pronto, too.

The $108,640 S350 Bluetectest car was rakish-looking by

virtueof its lowroof lineandop-tional big wheels with fat tires($2,020). But it seemed morecushy-limousine-like inside be-cause of extraordinary legroomin back (more than in front) andits optional ($3,040) “rear seatpackage.” That includes heatedand power-ventilated backseats that are separatelyadjust-able and tiltable, plus separaterear climate control.

The same sport/lux confu-sion shows in the ride and han-dling. When the suspension isset on Airmatic Comfort, thenormal mode, the car bobs andpitches a bit like an old Buick.“Sport” mode is no antidote,seeming too stiff, neither trulysporty nor luxurious.

Styling is nice, and the interi-or is gorgeous enough to over-

whelm the car’s drawbacks. Itincludes a touch that says Mer-cedes-Benz understands U.S.buyersbetter thanmany luxurybrands do: Lights along loweredges of dashboard and door-panel trim. Buick and Cadillac,for instance, use that to good ef-fect. Though it’s cosmetic, onceyou’ve had it, a car interiorseems barren without.

M-B also does the door“thunk” better than anybody.That, too, can be artifice,achievable even in lesser vehi-cles with more straps and fas-teners in thedoorpanels,aswellas better weatherstripping.Still, the vault-like sound andfeel radiate sturdiness, assur-anceand luxury inawayyoude-serve if you spend six figuresfor a car.

Because it’s adiesel, theS350Bluetec doesn’t use much fuelfor itsheft andpower.But if youcan afford a Mercedes-BenzS-Class, do you care?

More likely you simply pre-fer the feel of a diesel or hopeyour neighbors notice you aredoing your bit to save oil.

The S350 Bluetec’s inabilityto find the sport/luxury balanceand the otherwise-appealingdiesel’s sluggish takeoff from adead stop are big disappoint-ments in what otherwise wouldbe a showpiece.

Still, youwouldn’t becrazy tooverlook the problems and letyourself be charmed by the ex-terior looks, interior feel, stan-dard all-wheel drive and thelong cruising range of the die-sel.

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size. S350 BlueTec is 206.5 incheslong, 73.7 inches wide, 58 inchestall, on 124.6-inch wheelbase.Weighs 4,784 pounds. Passengerspace, 125 cubic feet, trunk, 16.4cubic feetTurning circle diameter, 40.3

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The Bentley’s claim to beingthe world’s fastest four-passen-gerconvertible is probably flut-tering somewhere in the ShelbyGT500’s wake. At a minimum,the sub 4-second zero-60 mphtime and 200-mph-plus topspeed Ford claims are bothclose enough to make the$280,000-plus Bentley sweat.

All 2013 Shelby GT500 Mus-tangs come with the 662-horse-power, 631-pound-feet of torquesupercharged 5.8-literV-8 and asix-speedmanual transmission.A new one-piece carbon-fiberdriveshaft transmits the en-

gine’s power to the rear wheels.Prices start at $54,200 for the

coupe and $59,200 for the con-vertible.

I testedawell-equippedShel-by GT500 convertible withvoice-recognition Bluetoothphone and audio, blind-spotalert, a Torsen limited-slip dif-ferential andmore. It stickeredat $62,695. All prices excludedestination charges.

Performance notwithstand-ing, the Shelby doesn’t reallycompete with the ultra-luxuryBentley Supersports. Its maintarget is the new 580-horsepow-

er Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.Other cars a Shelby driver

might deign to race include theAudi S5 convertible, BMW M3convertible, Dodge ChallengerSRT8 392 coupe and Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG coupe.

None of them matches theShelby’s output. Only theCama-ro ZL1 comes within 100 horse-power. Amazingly, all but the333-horsepower V-6 Audi S5also trail the Shelby’s fuel econ-omy.

The EPA rates Shelby at 15mpg in the city, 24 on the high-wayand18combined. Itescapes

the federal gas-guzzler tax lev-ied on the ZL1andmost similar-ly powerful cars.

Despite all that, the Shelbyisn’t perfect.Most of its failingswill be familiar to anyone whoknows the current Mustang –limited interior storage, poorrear visibility when backing upand no memory for the driver’ssettings.

TheShelbyGT500addsafewflaws to that list.The trunk linerof the car I tested fit very poor-ly.

The interior had leatherseats, but many hard surfaces,including the top of the doorsand dashboard.

The shifterwas notchy, nota-bly less smooth than the ZL1.Leg-wearying clutch effort re-called the days when powerfulengines required massiveclutch springs.

Rev the engine and drop theclutch, and the Shelby leavesthose quibbles in the dust.

The engine roars as accel-eration presses you back andwon’t let go.

The suspension keeps theShelby levelwhetheryou’vegotthe gas pedal or brake floored.Its normal setting cushionsbumps for a comfortable ride.

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Tech corrals 662horses in Ford ShelbyGT500 MustangByMark PhelanDetroit Free Press MORE DETAILS: 2013 FORD SHELBY GT500

Rear-wheel drive high-performance four-passenger coupePrice as tested: $62,695 (excluding destination charge)Rating: * * * * (out of four stars)Reasons to buy: Performance, looks, legendShortcomings: Interior storage, poorly fitted trunk liner, no memo-

ry for driver’s settings, shifter feelVehicle type: Rear-wheel drive high-performance four-passenger

coupe or convertibleEngine : 662-horsepower supercharged 5.8-liter V-8Transmission: Six-speed manualEPA fuel economy rating: 15 mpg city/24 highway/18 combined.

Premium fuel.Price range: $54,200-$59,200 (excluding options and destination

charges)Wheelbase: 107.1 inchesLength: 188.2 inchesWidth: 73.9 inchesHeight: 55.1 inchesCurb weight: 2,970 poundsWhere assembled: Flat Rock, Mich.Safety equipment: Antilock brakes; stability control; electronic

brake-force distribution; front-seat side air bags; Brembo vented discbrakesOptions: Torsen limited-slip rear differential; Gurney flap; Bilstein

adjustable shocks; upgraded springs and stabilizer bars; “Tarnish”black-painted forged aluminum wheels

Rev the engine and drop the clutch, and the Shelby leaves quibbles inthe dust. The engine roars as acceleration presses you back and won’tlet go. AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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With its unique spindle-shaped grille and sleek profile,the 2013 GS 350 AWD givesLexus a new face, but the luxu-ry brand’s soul remains thesame: long on quiet and com-fort, short on thrills.

That formula – plus reliabil-ity, resale value and great ser-vice – helped make LexusAmerica’s best-selling luxurybrand for years.

It’s nothing to sneeze at, butLexus wants more. Like manyof its owners,Lexus is solid andrespectable, but it longs to beseen as wild and racy.

TheGS–asedanroughly thesize of an Acura RL, Audi A6,BMW 5 series, Cadillac CTS,Infiniti M and Mercedes-BenzE-class – is the repository ofLexus’ daydreams of a life lessordinary. It falls short, but thecar’s looks, comfort and quietremain strong attractions.

Prices for the 2013LexusGS350 start at $46,900 for a rear-wheel drive model with a six-speed automatic transmission.

All-wheeldrivemodels startat $49,450. All GS 350 modelscome with a 306-horsepower

3.5-literV-6andsix-speedauto-matic transmission.

A hybrid called the GS 450hstarts at $58,950. Its electricmotor and battery boost thecar’s output to 338 horsepower.The GS 450h has a continuallyvariable transmission.

Lexusused to sell aV-8-pow-ered performance modelcalled the GS 460. It featured a342-horsepower 4.6-liter V-8and eight-speed automatictransmission. That model nolonger exists as Lexus tries toposition hybrids as its most-powerful and fuel-efficientcars.

The V-8 was underpoweredamong luxury sedans, so it’s nogreat loss. The new GS coulduse the missing eight-speed toboost its performance and fueleconomy, though. The Audi,BMW, Infiniti and Mercedesall have more gears than thenew Lexus.

I tested an option-laden GS350AWDthat cost $58,884. Thecar had heated rear seats, goodvoice-recognition, fine audioand navigation systems andmany other features. The priceput theGS 350AWDat the high

LEXUS

The 2013 Lexus GS 350’s looks, comfort and quiet remain strong attractions. The GS offers four driving modes: eco, normal, sport and sport plus. PROVIDED/LEXUS

2013 Lexus GS 350 AWDlong on quiet and comfortByMark PhelanDetroit Free Press MORE DETAILS: 2013 LEXUS GS 350 AWD

All-wheel drive, five-passenger luxury sedanPrice as tested: $58,884 (excluding destination charge)Rating: Three out of four starsReasons to buy: Looks, voice recognition, quiet, comfortable interiorShortcomings: Handling, fuel economy, control usability

MORE DETAILS: 2013 LEXUS GS 350 AT A GLANCEVehicle type: Rear- or all-wheel drive five-passenger luxury sedanPower: 306-horsepower port- and direct-injected 3.5-liter V-6 or 338-horsepower hybrid electricTransmission: Six-speed automatic; continuously variable transmission in hybridPrice range: $46,900-$58,950Base price: $49,450Safety equipment: Antilock brakes; stability control; electronic brake-force distribution; brake assist;

backup camera; front and rear seat-mounted side air bags; curtain air bags; front-seat knee air bags; frontseatbelt pretensioners and force limiters; whiplash-lessening front head restsSPECIFICATIONS AS TESTEDEngine: 3.5-liter port- and direct-injected DOHC variable-timing 24-valve V-6Power: 306 horsepower at 6,400 rpm; 277 pound-feet of torque at 4,800 rpmTransmission: Six-speed automaticEPA fuel economy rating: 19 mpg city/26 highway/21 combined. Premium gasoline.

DIMENSIONSWheelbase: 112.2 inchesLength: 190.7 inchesWidth: 72.4 inchesHeight: 57.9 inchesCurb weight: 3,980 poundsWhere assembled: Tahara, JapanOptions: Blind-spot monitor; heated rear seats; rain-sensing wipers; heated and ventilated front seats;

power rear sun shade; 18-inch alloy wheels; adaptive variable suspension; wood and leather trimmed steeringwheel; wood interior trim; semi-aniline leather trim; 18-way power front seats; memory for passenger seat;three-zone automatic climate control; manual sun side shades; heated steering wheel; navigation system;parking assist; trunk mat; cargo net

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The new No. 1? That’show Nissan sees the 2013Altima sedan that it’sbuilding.

The freshenedmodel ismeant to push Altimafrom second-best-sellingcar in theU.S. to first –dis-placing theToyotaCamry.

To accomplish that,Nissan says it bench-marked the new Altima inits development againstluxury cars such as AudiA4, BMW 3 Series, Mer-cedes-Benz C-Class. Alti-ma’snotmeant tocompetewith those premium Ger-man cars, but Nissanwanted to see how close itcould bring a mainstreamfamily car to their quiet,crisp,classypersonalities.

The 2013 Altima sits ona chassis similar to the2012, for instance, and thedrivetrains carry over –albeit with updates to thebase four-cylinder thatadd seven horsepowerand, alongwith changes tothe CVT (continuouslyvariable-ratio automatictransmission), increasefuelmileage.

About 70 percent of theCVT’s parts are new andfriction is cut, accountingfor 40 percent of themile-age boost, Nissan says.The 2013 four is rated 27mpg in the city, 38 high-way and 31 combined, upfrom23/32/27.Powerisun-changed for the V-6, butmileage rating now is 22/31/25, up from 20/27/23.

Miles on Tennesseeback roads and suburbanboulevards in two V-6models, plus about 660highway miles and somesuburbanzippinginafour-cylinder model, leave thisimpression of the new Al-tima: terrific – except forwonky steering and base-model seats with cheap-looking cloth upholsteryand no lumbar adjust-ment.

The steering and someother details could be dueto the test cars being pre-production models.There’s time to tweaksomethingsbefore thecargoes on sale . But the sub-par cloth? Likely stuck

with it. Maybe it won’ttrigger your gag reflex asit did ours.

Specific gripes:» Steering. Too stiff,

especially on the V-6mod-els. It’s as if you have tobreak it loose from dead-center to turn or maneu-ver. And once you do, itthen seems too assisted,over-reacting to yourmoves on thewheel.

What’s more, in allthree test cars, the steer-ingseemedtodrift left, re-quiring corrections to theright.

The problems feel mi-nor at low speed but arequitebothersomeasspeedrises.

» Seats.Not only is thecloth cheesy, but lower-level models lack lumbaradjustment, so there’s noway to tone down the too-prominent bulge in yourlower back.

The leather upholsteryin thefour-cylinderdrivenfrom Smyrna to Virginiawas much better, and theupgraded seats have lum-bar adjustment.

» Radio knobs.On twoof the three test cars, theyrotated as if through sand.Not so much on the third,so likely a preproductioninconsistency.

But Altima also hasplenty to like.

The four-cylinder gotabout 37 mpg on the high-way trip home, very closeto its 38 rating, eventhough the drive wasthrough foothills and in-volved wide-open throttleformerging and passing.

The four feels andsounds strong enough tobe an engine of choice. Itdoesn’t force you to payfor theV-6 just toget somescoot.

The V-6 is, of course,peppier, with 88 morehorsepower than the four,but the four’s182 hp neverfelt insufficient, at leastwith one person and lug-gage.

The CVT has a settinglabeled “Ds,” which we’dlike to think stands for“Drive, sensible,” thoughNissan considers the “s” a“sport” designation.

Like with the CVT inthenewInfiniti JX35SUV,the setting lets the trans-mission mimic a conven-tionalstep-ratioautomatictomoreorlesssatisfyanti-CVT folks.

Brakes work quicklyand firmly without beingtouchy, making gracefulstops easy from highspeed or low.

Handling – how the carcorners and how confi-dence-inspiring it is in do-ing so – is a treat if youcansomehow overlook thesteering problem. Thehandling’s good enoughthat you wonder how longthemore-expensiveMaxi-ma, based on the old-gen-eration Altima, survives.

Styling is cool, hintingat the stylish Audi A7.Dark colors work espe-cially well.

Thoughtfulness is in-fused. Altima’s tire pres-sure display shows thepressure in each tire, un-like some cars’ idiot lightsthat come on when a tire’slow but give you no cluewhichonetocheck.Nissandesigned the system tohelpyoufill thetire.Airupand the car’s flasherscome on to show air is go-ing in. The horn chirpswhen the tire’s full.

Altima’s wipers returnto their parked positionlow on the windshield in-

stead of stopping wheretheyarewhenyoushut offthe engine. Nissan says itkeeps them from freezingin place in coldweather.

Altima’s one of the bestcars in a long time todrivewith the windows down.Not buffeting, just lighttugging at your locks.

There’s enough goodabout the car that we’dlove to give the new Alti-ma a fist bump and unre-served applause.

But until that steeringgets retuned, and theclothseatsandtheir lumbarset-up are upgraded, no cando.

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Nissan updates, beautifies Altima for ’13By James R. HealeyUSA TODAY ABOUT THE 2013 NISSAN ALTIMA

» What: Remake of popular four-door, front-drive,five-passenger sedan» Where:Made at Smyrna, Tenn.; Canton, Miss.»Why: Predecessor showing age even before rivals

launched new designs» Howmuch: $22,280 with $780 shipping for base 2.5

four-cylinder; $24,880 for 2.5 SV likely to be most popular;$28,830 for base V-6 3.5 SL»What makes it go: 2.5-liter four rated 182 horsepow-

er (up 7 hp) at 6,000 rpm, 180 pounds-feet of torque (un-changed) at 4,000 rpmOptional: 3.5-liter V-6 rated 270 hp at 6,000, 258

pounds.-feet at 4,400 (both unchanged)Continuously variable-ratio automatic transmission

(CVT) with setting that mimics conventional set-ratioautomatic. V-6 version has manual-shift mode.» How big: About the same as the old model, similar to

Toyota Camry. It’s 191.5 inches long, 72 inches wide, 57.9inches tall on 109.3-inch wheelbase. Weighs 3,108 poundsto 3,355 pounds. Passenger compartment, 101.9 cubic feet.Trunk, 15.4 cubic feet. Turning circle diameter, 36.1 to 37.4feet» How thirsty: Four-cylinder rated 27 mpg in the city,

38 mpg highway, 31 city/highway mix. V-6 rated 22/31/25.V-6 test car showed 22.3 mpg (4.48 gallons per 100 miles)

in brisk driving on rural two-lane roads.Four-cylinder test car registered 37.1mpg (2.7 gal./100

mi.) in 660 hilly highway miles driven hard; 27.3 mpg (3.66gal./100 mi.) in suburban dash-about.Both engines burn regular. Tank holds 18 gallons.» Overall: Very nice, but needs upgraded seats in lower

models and retuned steering.

The most innovativeversion yet, thefifth-generation 2013Nissan Altima buildson its strongreputation forquality and reliabilityand adds new levelsof innovation,fuel-efficiency,dynamicperformance andpremium style.

The 2013 Nissan Altima leaves many wondering howmuch longer the more-expensive Maxima will survive. PROVIDED PHOTOS/NISSAN

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end of its competitive set.Thecar’s interiorwasexcep-

tionally lovely. Trimmed in softleather and dark wood, it alsohad plenty of useful storagebins and cubbies.

The interior is exceptionallyquiet at speed. The front seatoffered plenty of room, and therear seat is acceptable. At 14.3cubic feet, the GS’ trunk is oneof the biggest in its class.

The gauges are clear andlegible. The 12.3-inch display

for navigation, audio and othersystems is particularly good.

A joystick-type device thatLexus calls Remote Touch inthe center console operatesmanyfunctions. I found the joy-stick difficult to use when thecarwasmoving. It tookmyeyesoff the road and required toomuch thought.

A touchscreen or old-fash-ioned buttons might be prefer-able. It’s particularly annoyingthat the joystick didn’t have a“back” function.

Providing a single step to goback or cancel an incorrectcommand is avaluable functionfor complicated controls. The

voice-recognition systemdoesn’t recognize “cancel,” anequally vexing oversight.

The GS offers four drivingmodes: eco, normal, sport andsport plus. They all provide ac-ceptable performance, but theGS350AWDposesnochallengeto the sporty Audi A6 Quattroand BMW 535xi.

The suspension absorbsbumps well for a smooth, com-fortable ride.

The brakes are exceptional.The speed-sensitive steering isdirect and has good on-centerfeel.

The GS’ 3.5-liter V-6 is thefirst engine equippedwith both

direct and port fuel injection.Lexus says the system im-proves power and fuel efficien-cy.

TheEPAratesGS350AWD’sfuel economy at 19 mpg in thecity, 26 on the highway and 21incombined driving.

The Audi A6 Quattro 3.0T,BMW 535xi and Mercedes-Benz E350 4Matic all use lessfuel.

The Audi also has morehorsepower and torque, whilethe BMW produces moretorque. The Cadillac CTS4 3.6-liter gets the same combinedfuel economy as the GS 350AWD, and its engine produces

more power.The EPA estimates the CTS4

will cost less tooperatebecauseit uses regular fuel. TheGS andthe other competitors all burnpremium.

The hybrid GS 450h is themost powerful and fuel effi-cient GS. The hybrid rated 29mpg in the city, 34 on the high-way and 31 in combined EPAtesting. It uses premium gaso-line.

Behind the new-look grille,the GS 350 AWD is a luxurious,advanced and elegant sedanlike the ones that built Lexus’reputation. That will be enoughto please many buyers.

LexusContinued from Page I48

This is the time of the smallcar.Thecaryouwant toown, theone you’ll brag about. The rock’n’ roll small car.

Americans are being offeredthe best crop of compacts in re-centmemory, if not all time.Hothatchbacks, rear-wheel-drivehellions, impish convertiblesand turbo-charged tykes, allcrying out for very modest dol-lars.

And they’ve responded bybuying: the U.S. saw a 50 per-cent increase in small car salesthis September.

Not long ago, purchasing acompact or subcompact meantcompromising,giving inorevengiving up. For every Volks-wagen GTI with a furious littleengine built for fun, we wereawash with tinny toys like theFord Aspire, Geo Prizm, andHyundai Excel.

Now, if you’ve got $22,000 ormore and buy a boring car, it’syour own darn fault.

Hyundai was once a majorsource of punishingly bad smallcars. Now the South Koreanbrand gives us zingy hatcheslike the Veloster, released lastyear.

Turbo Engine

The Veloster is entertaining,but the138-horsepower1.6- literengine didn’t quite get the jobdone.Nowthey’veaddedaturbomodel with 201 hp and a stan-dard six-speed manual trans-mission.

The suggested retail price oftheVelosterTurbo is $21,950. Astested, my 2013 model-year carcame in just over $25,000. Gasmileage is 26 city, 38 highway.

Hyundai’s interiors and elec-tronics are good, but the han-dling and ride characteristicsneeded work. The Veloster Tur-bo proves those areas are com-ing along nicely.

With front-wheel-drive andno limited-slip differential, thehatchback may not be a seriouscanyon carver, but is very goodat bombing down boulevards.An accessible mix of amenitiesand driving entertainment.

In my recent review of theFiat 500 Abarth ($22,000;$26,050 as tested), I was clearlytaken by the piccolo Italianchariot. A few weeks ago I hadthe chance to let it lope around aracetrack and wondered how itwould hold up. (Can you evenimagine taking most small carson a track?)

Changing Gears

No racecar, it pusheswide oncorners and the front end divesunder hard braking. Yet there’ssomething intensely likableabout the upright seating posi-tion, the way you can seethrough the windows, and row-ing through the gears with thelong stick shift.

Giggle-inducing good times,even on a track. I’m enamoredwith this car. (MPG 28 city, 34highway.)

BMW-owned Mini alwayshas a troop of cadets ready tomuster for those who like theirkicks in small packages. Per-haps the simplest offering is theCooperSRoadster,atoplessver-sion of the two-doorCoupemod-el.

It’s littlemore than a soft top,turbocharged engine (a 1.6-literfour-cylinder with 181 hp), twoseats and a sophisticated sus-pension. That recipe is bestwhenzippingaroundbackroadslike those I drove in early Octo-ber; leaves carpeting the as-phalt, the top down and heatblasting.

Gas PedalThe car pivots from its cen-

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puts to the gas pedal.It gets 27 mpg city, 35 high-

way. Too bad it starts around$30,000 (and $33,000 as tested),so it is as expensive as manylarger, more complicated cars.

When it comes to happy giftsfrom the small-car gods, I’m es-pecially thankful for two 2013models, the $24,500 Ford FocusST and $26,265 Subaru BRZ.

The Focus comes as both se-dan and five-door hatchback, acute and likable entry. The STmodel is less cute and more fi-ery, with Recaro sports seatsand a 2.0-liter four-cylinder en-gine which makes 252 hp, 270pound-feet of torque. It has aspecially tuned suspensionmeant toget it to slipandslideatwill. (Gas mileage is 23, 32.)

Subaru’s BRZ, meanwhile, isa rear-wheel-drive two seater.Extremely light, it does withoutturbos to its 2.0-liter four- cylin-der engine (200 hp; 151 lb-ft oftorque; 22, 30 mpg).

Developed in conjunctionwith Toyota, which released itsversion as the Scion FR-S, no-body has made a new car likethis since the original MazdaMiata.

Dueling Banjos

A colleague and I took thecars onto a road course to raceagainst each other, like duelingbanjos. After all, both were cre-atedwithaneye toward trouble-making on a racetrack. (Thesame could be said for me andmy buddy.)

IstartedwiththeBRZ.Onthefirst big bend, I gave it a dose ofgas and turned thewheel, creat-ing a tire-screaming drift.

I let off the gas slightly,flicked the wheel, straightenedand made for a straightaway.Glancing into the rear-viewmir-ror, I found theFord right onmytail.

Around and around we went.I couldn’t shake the Focus ST,which was also sliding aroundthe place like we were drivingon oil. I let him pass.

We switched cars. The Fordis front-wheel-drive, but engi-neered to turn on a dime. I wassoon on the Subaru’s tail. I waswhipsawing the wheel aboutwildly, playing with my drivingline.Under theseconditions, theFordwasquicker than theSuba-ru.

Exiting, I pulled off my hel-met andmyhead steamed in thecool air. Totally rock ’n’ roll.

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» Space. There’s lotsof it in thefirstandsecondrows. Not so much in thethird, but that’s par forthis course.

Second row has morelegroom than some vehi-cles do in the front row,and that’s a ton. Secondrow also slides fore-aft tohelp tailor people and car-go space to your needs ofthe moment.

The second row alsocan slide far enough for-wardtoprovideanalley tothe third row, even if achild seat is strapped intothe second row.

» Interior presenta-tion. Very classy trim.Generally simple, wide-open dashboard layout.

No gimmicks.The twist-jiggle knob

that controls the stereoand other features is easytowork, though some pro-cedures aren’t intuitive.

You get the sense thatsomeof the junkthatauto-makers lard onto today’scars is done just becausethey can. And once onedoes it, others have tokeep up.

» Comfort. Remark-able, for themost part, of-ten the direct result of ve-hicle size. Seats have sillysquiggle patterns butwere restful nonetheless.

Head restraints willcause neck aches forsome physiques. It’s be-cause of whiplash regula-tions that require the re-straint to all but whackthe back of your skull.

Ford has managed tocreate legal adjustable

head restraints that solvethe problem. Why othersaren’twilling to pay to usethe idea, or change it justenough to claim theydidn’t copy it, is unclear.

Perhaps that doesn’tseem like a litany ofpraise, but in truth, it wasbarely moments aftersliding into the JX inMid-townManhattan that it be-gan warming the cockles.And it kept on doing so onthehighway, in the ’burbs,sitting at idle.

It’s not cheap: about$50,000 typically outfit-ted.

Nor is it a fuel-sipper,showing about 20 mpg onthe highway,16 in the sub-urbs, so itwon’tmakea lotof shopping lists.

But buyers in thatneighborhood would dowell to knock on JX 35’sdoor and ask to come in.

Infiniti JXContinued from Page I47

Ford executives arefanned out across thecountry for the launch ofthe most important car inits lineup: the 2013 FordFusion,whichgoesonsalethis fall.

The elegant design ofthe new model, new crea-ture comforts and tech-nology, alongwith five en-gine choices, have raisedexpectations that it cangotire-to-tire with the seg-ment’s perennial leaders,the Toyota Camry andHonda Accord. The lasttime Ford had the best-selling car in the U.S. was1996: the Taurus.

Whether Ford regainsthe sales crown or not,there are profits to bereaped. The car is expect-ed to increase Ford’smar-ket share, said MarkFields, Ford president ofthe Americas.

Americans buy moremidsize cars than any oth-er segment. In 2011 mid-size cars accounted for al-most 1 in 5 U.S. sales –about 2.3 million – andthey are on pace to reach2.5 million this year, ac-cording to data from Au-todata and WardsAuto.Looking ahead, WardsAu-to forecasts that 36 per-cent of sales from all newvehicles hitting the mar-ket this year will be mid-size cars.

“There is no more im-portant segment in theU.S. market,” said Mi-chael Robinet, managingdirector of IHS Automo-tive Consulting in North-ville.

“To be successful, youhave to have a strongmid-size car or you can packup your tent and gohome,” Robinet said. Allmajor players have orsoon will launch a credi-ble entry. Honda’s all-new

Accord is coming to mar-ket at the same timeas theFusion.Chryslerwillhavea new 200.

“This year, it’s the hot-test segment, with a lot ofnew product,” said HaigStoddard, product analystwith WardsAuto in South-field. Toyota sold 280,536Camrys through August.

Nipping at Camry’sheels is the Honda Ac-cord, with 218,665 sold inthe first eightmonths andan all-newmodel .

The Nissan Altima is aserious contender with209,592 sales through Au-gust, including the all-new model that went onsale in June.

General Motors intro-duced the next-genera-tion Chevrolet Malibu inthe summer, including theEco mild hybrid model.

The Hyundai Sonataand Kia Optima are hard-charging upstarts.

Into the fray comesFu-

sion with a fresh exteriorlook, three gas-engine op-tions, a gas-electric hy-brid and plug-in hybrid.

“Fusion is the stylingleader and has a good as-sortment of powertrains,all four-cylinder,”Robinetsaid. “In technology, theFusion sets anewhighbarfor the segment.”

The outgoing Fusion isthe fourth-best-sellingmidsize car through Au-gust at 181,865. Ford isbetting its $555million in-vestment in tooling theFlat Rock plant and pre-paring to add a secondshift of1,200workers thatdemand will warrant theextra capacity. Flat Rockwill augment three shiftsof Fusion production inHermosillo, Mexico.

“I can’t underestimatehow important the Fusionis to Ford,” Fields toldworkers atFlatRock , not-ing the segment is grow-ing two times faster than

the rest of the industry.Neither Fields nor Mu-

lally would comment onwhether beatingCamry isthe measure of Fusion’ssuccess.

“The Camry is not in-fallible,” Robinet said.“Both Ford and Nissanhave added capacity tomake more midsize carsso they would be capableof beating the Camry ifthe demand is there.” ButRobinet said he thinksCamrywill stay on top fora fewmore years.

“This year, the Camrycan’t be unseated,” saidWardsAuto’s Stoddard.

The segment will re-main the largest for an-other decade, meaninghuge volumes are up forgrabs, Robinet said. Withmuch more ambitiousfuel economy standardsin place, midsize cars’share of the total new ve-hicle market is expectedonly to grow.

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Ford relaunches Fusion,a most important carBy Alisa PriddleDetroit Free Press

The 1.6 liter EcoBoost Ford Fusion will be assembled in both Flat Rock and Hermosillo, Mexico. Sleek design will differentiate Fusion from other sedans inthe midsize segment, with class-leading fuel economy in gasoline (37 mpg on the highway with the 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine), hybrid (at least 47 mpg inthe city) and an all-new plug-in hybrid (with more than 100 MPGe). PROVIDED/FORDMOTOR COMPANY

The new F-150 KingRanchhasanewgrille, 20-inch wheels, special KingRanch chrome, and lotsand lots of leather.

“While others are juststarting to understand the

appeal of Texas innova-tion and luxury, we’reproud to have workedwith our longtime part-ners at King Ranch whohelped define both,” saidFord General MarketingManager Dave Mondra-gon in a statement.

Yes, there really is a

King Ranch. It covers1,300 miles of Texas, and260 Ford pickups roam it.

The 2013 comes with achoice of 5-literV-8 or 3.5-liter turbocharged Eco-Boost six-cylinder enginethat has defied evenFord’s own predictionsabout its popularity.

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The 2013 Ford F-150 King Ranch is the industry’s first luxury pickup truck. PROVIDED/FORDMOTOR COMPANY

F-150 meets KingRanch luxuryBy Chris WoodyardUSA TODAY

The Goodyear tiresadhere to curves as ifthey were molten. A“track mode” displayincludes an accelerom-eter that shows howmany G’s the car pullsin turns, accelerationand braking.

The electric powersteering’s sport andcomfort settings arenoticeably different. Ifound sport fine for alldriving.

In addition to sever-al settings for stabilityand traction controlthat allow anythingfrom mild burnouts toclosed-course racing,the Shelby offerslaunch control.

Launch control usessome of the same en-gine and brake con-trols as traction andstability control, butwhile thosesystemsre-duce power and speed,launch control holdsthe tires to the veryedge of adhesion formaximum accelera-tion without any wheelspin.

TheShelby’s systemallows the kind of race-winning accelerationfromastoponceattain-ableonlybysupremelyskilled drivers.

The visually dra-matic Shelby has low-profile 19-inch frontand 20-inch rearwheels.

The front air intakeis massive and deep, ablack maw behind thebumper that gulps airto cool the engine. Thepowerful Brembobrakes’ 15-inch frontdiscs are as big as thebase wheels on a FordFiesta subcompact.

This combination ofclassic style and ad-vanced performancetechnology is a fittingtribute to Carroll Shel-by,whohelpedFordde-velop the first perfor-mance Mustangs in1965 and unveiled theautomaker’s latest andgreatest pony car to aroar of engines andloud applause in LosAngeles in November.

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