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Read your 2011 Ford Mustang GT Test Drive And Overview on insidemusclecars.com (also published here: http://www.examiner.com/autos-in-san-jose/2011-ford-mustang-gt-automatic-test-drive-and-overview ) Best article yet I have read. I am a first time muscle car buyer and am 46 years old. I got the 2011 Mustang GT/CS automatic. Any suggestions for a first time buyer/driver? I tried your slammin it to the floor at 20mph and anything above 60mph and it sure is fun. I am a little disappointed in the take off from a dead stop Thanks Jim _______ Hi Jim, I wish I could take credit for that article but I'm glad you liked it. Congratulations on your purchase. I take it you're looking for suggestions for a quicker "launch" from a dead stop? You could look at the softness off the line as a benefit too. A fast car like that can easily overwhelm the tires and you end up spinning instead of moving forward. Therefore the benefit can actually be is that your "launches" can be

When driving a car that is new to you, don’t you want to like it? Unfortunately with the 2009 Dodge Caliber SXT, that wasn’t the case. If you have one, don’t read further. I just can’t recommend this vehicle as much as I was hoping to. I don’t want to offend owners, but some people buy a car to be a little different and if they are fairly comfortable, they are happy. Others demand more from what is typically their second largest purchase in their life. Having driven it for several hundred miles over the course of a few days a number of issues made themselves known. I had issues with the interior , ride, engine, transmission, etc. The ride was rather floaty with side-to-side head-toss over bumps and dips. In other words the motion would rock the vehicle and that movement is transmitted to the least “secured” part of the body with a weight on top of it – the neck. Excessive road noise from the tires filled the cabin. When the cargo area is shared with the passenger compartment without a

My favorite part of the Monterey Weekend Of Automobiles (MWOA!) is actually the cars outside of the Concours D'elegance that are primarily featured on the day of the show. Sometimes you get a peak a day or two before. Others are seen at the various auctions. The ones I've wanted to see for a long time in the past year or so were present: Ferrari 458 Italia, 599 GTO and the one and only P540 Superfast Aperta based on the 599 GTB. Also a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, McLaren MP4-12C, Porsche 918 Spyder, 911 Turbo S, Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, and others. Some surprises were there as well such as the gorgeous Morgan EvaGT and the Lotus Evora Cup GT4 which has the horsepower output the production Evora desperately needs. The Ferrari display just outside the Concours is up the ramp from the shops near the main entrance. The display was wonderful and deserved a higher traffic location. Some even missed it. The Italia was a very nice dark blue and of course the GTO was red. The only