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Switzer Performance, tuning specialists based in Ohio, has revealed their latest creation – a 1000+ hp Nissan GT-R. But make no mistake, this is no monster meant to be confined to the local drag strip; instead, the engineers at Switzer has managed to create a supercar with better road manners which, as claimed by Switzer, can be comfortably used for the routine soccer-mom chores without scaring the crap out of a budget sedan in the next lane. With the “Ultimate Street Edition” moniker, this supercar boasts no harshness generally associated with the performance-tuned vehicles.

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Our Lexus IS 300C has now gone back to the dealer, having spent two months with us. While we still contend that it is not the kind of car that car guys like us would buy, it is still an excellent car in its own right, and we enjoyed driving it. At times, we had up to six cars on our fleet to pick from when heading out to events, and we’d pick the Lexus because it was the luxury car of the bunch.

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The Lexus brand took off back in late 1989 with the ground-breaking LS 400 more than two decades ago. Soon Lexus will hold the world premiere of the new 2013 Lexus LS flagship sedan at a special invitation-only event in San Francisco on July 30.

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Further to the UAE launch of the new Toyota 86 sports car, Al-Futtaim Motors, exclusive distributors of Toyota in the UAE, has announced the launch of the Toyota Emirates Drifting Team.

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We never drove the first generation of the Hyundai Genesis Coupe, a car that seems to be overshadowed by the Toyota 86 nowadays. But we did drive the 2013 version, which is essentially the same car, with a new front-end, new tail lamps and a new interior. And even though it still has the same engine as before, it is one hell of a car.

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So why the hell are we comparing the 2012 Toyota Camry to the 2008 Mitsubishi Galant GTS? Because we actually own the Mitsubishi. Throw in the fact that for the price for a brand-new basic Toyota Camry, you can buy a brand-new top-of-the-range Mitsubishi Galant V6, and this starts to make even more sense.

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The Infiniti JX35 is one car that nobody was actually anticipating. Unlike the next Toyota Prado or the latest Lexus LX, this all-new Infiniti is going with an all-new nameplate and will have an uphill task establishing the “JX” moniker. Just launched in the GCC, it might be yet another crossover in a line-up that already has the FX and the EX, but this is an important model. The mechanicals for the JX will be the basis for the next-generation Nissan Pathfinder. Interested yet?

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The Lexus IS sedan first debuted in its current iteration back in 2006, and has changed little since then. So when the Lexus IS 300C convertible debuted for 2010, it got saddled with tech that was already half-a-decade old. That’s not to say it is bad in any way. In fact, we prefer it more than the new gimmicky gadgets in newly-designed luxury cars.

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The all-new Passat is a big car for Volkswagen. And by ‘big’, we mean both importance as well as size. The larger 2012 Passat is now shipped in from their new United States factory, and we were shipped to Jordan for a test-drive as well as a mini-vacation at a Dead Sea resort.

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