2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR review notes

EXECUTIVE EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: At nearly $41,000 as equipped, I hate to call this 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution MR a poor man's Porsche, but by Porsche pricing standards, it's relevant. And for the money, you get a masterpiece of turbo-blasted, tight-as-a-drum engineering that, like a good all-wheel-drive Porsche, seems intuitively tuned to the pavement (or gravel) and responds instantly to every driver demand. Maybe the Evolution...

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2013 Honda Accord arrives, and the crowd goes mild: Motoramic Drives

"The Honda Accord is the greatest car in the world," the guy with the inexplicable mini-Mohawk, a lead designer for the company, was saying. "It is, absolutely, without question." He said this live-miked while sitting in a brand-new 2013 model on the patio of a resort in Santa Barbara. Two-dozen car reviewers circled around him like buzzards, waiting for him to utter something else outrageous and uncomfortable. His Honda co-workers gritted...

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