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Quick Drive: 2011 Acura RL With Advance Package
With the RL, you don’t get a stonking great V-8. Instead, you get a 300-horsepower, 3.7-liter V-6. The RL zips about with relative ease, but I still missed the aristocratic quality of a V-8. It was like having a V-6 muscle car or pick-up truck; it just didn’t feel quite right to have a big luxury car without a V-8.
Secondhand Gems: Germany Vs. Japan $40K
Behold the titans of modern automotive excellence. As much as we love our baseball and apple pie, it would be irresponsible at best to suggest that German and Japanese automakers haven’t been driving the auto industry for the last three decades. That’s not to say the rest of the world doesn’t offer some fabulous automobiles, but considering the American portion of that apple pie has been steadily shrinking for years, we know we’re not alone in our fondness for foreign machinery.
Driven: We Drive the 2009 Acura TL
Before we had even spent one minute behind the wheel of Acura’s new-for-2009 TL sedan, we could already pick out the feature that will ultimately divide shoppers into potential buyers and those who will choose to look elsewhere: the in-your-face grille.
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