First Drive: 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 Coupé

Story, video and photos by John LeBlanc LAS VEGAS, Nevada –It’s challenging enough for Lamborghini’s Gallardo to keep up with recently updated super sports car rivals, such as the Ferrari F430 Scuderia and Porsche 911 GT2.

First Drive: 2010 Mercedes-Benz E Class Coupe

Story and photos by John LeBlanc SIENNA, Italy–Back in simpler times before the mass customization of consumer goods Mercedes-Benz had a simpler lineup: a large sedan, a smaller one and a sports car. Yet just as you can now order your personal computer any way you want by choosing such options as processing power, memory […]

First Drive: 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe

Story and photos by John LeBlanc LAS VEGAS–The new-car market may be in the toilet. Everyone is still afraid of a return to high fuel prices. We probably all should be driving compact hybrid sedans. Yet automakers keep on rolling out rear-wheel-drive sporty cars. In the past 12 months, we’ve seen debuts of the resurrected […]

Road Test: 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt SS Coupe

Story and photos by John LeBlanc With the performance market quickly turning to small, fun and frugal, Chevrolet – a brand historically marketed as General Motors’ “cheap speed” division – should be sitting on the automotive throne right now. Instead, Chevrolet’s been preoccupied with pickups, crossovers, SUVs and resurrecting its retro Camaro muscle car; a […]

First Drive: 2009 Lamborghini LP-560 4 Coupé

Story, video, and  photos by John LeBlanc LAS VEGAS–It’s challenging enough for Lamborghini’s Gallardo to keep up with recently updated super sports car rivals, such as the Ferrari F430 Scuderia and Porsche 911 GT2. But now that its corporate kid brother, Audi’s R8 – a newer vehicle that doesn’t exist without the four-year-older Gallardo’s space […]

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