Guess The Car (From Road Tests)

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No, it's a Dodge SRT-4 ACR. Trust me. ;) (September 2005 issue of C/D.)
 
Damn, i could have swarn it was the ford focus rs being tested by clarkson a few years ago. I was too late anyway ...
 
Here's a hard one, but entirely doable if you catch two keywords. Also, I won't be too picky on the name, as long as you get the correct model range.

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Recall that we have already formally introduced you to the plastic-fendered __ with a full road test of the V-8–powered _____ (March 2000). The car coddles the orbs with its shapely pillarless hardtop lines and massages the technoid pressure points with magnesium door guts, infrared-eating glass, and a semiactive suspension.
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HOLLLLLLLY CRAPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

I READ THAT REVIEW A FEW HOURS AGO. C&D, 4/01, Benz CL600!
I was cleaning my room, and putting all my mags in a cabinet, when, (probably because of ADD) I picked up this one, and was reading the articles, I read this CL6 review.

Now that, is just plain weird.
 
Want to be cutting edge? Want to take the tech boom by storm? See the -----------. It begins with the push of a button (to start the vehicle, instead of inserting a key into the ignition), and continues with things such as a Lane Departure Warning system that uses a small camera on the back of the rearview mirror that "beeps" if the driver is drifting too far into the next lane.

There is Bluetooth wireless connectivity (no more holding phones while you dial). There are climate-controlled front seats (no more roasting in summer). And there is something called Intelligent Cruise Control, which means if you aren't smart enough to brake while the cruise is set, the ------------ will do it for you.

Ride to the moon, anyone? OK. So how's the car? In a word: Awesome. It is elegant. It is aggressive. It is fun. And it is full of technology.

Newly redesigned for 2006, the ------------- joins the lineup of luxury ----------- vehicles that are quickly becoming real contenders in the race to everyone's wallet.
 
Oh, that's easy, just because of the Lane Departure Warning system. :D Infiniti M45.

Actually, honestly, I was gonna say the FX45 at first (I believe it was the first car to have the system), but then I read the line about "[n]ewly redesigned for 2006".
 
'nother one (again, you don't need to get the exact model):
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The serfs are insufficiently impressed. Droopy nose and bum. Our Dom didn't fit in the champagne-bottle holder.
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As day two unfolded, climbing 3560-foot-high Sassafras Mountain, we discovered that even the Mustang chassis bits work a lot better when bolted to a low-slung aluminum roadster.
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Might be very easy or very difficult – I dunno. ;)
 
Something by panoz?

Edit: though I can't remember panoz making anything other than the esperante (the gta player in me wants to say esperanto).
 
Sounds like the Supercharged GTLM Esperante.

For the record, panoz also made the AIV Roadster -- Think of it as a fast version of the Prowler.
 
Regular Esperante. You and xcsti can figure out who goes. ;)
 
The running gear starts more conventionally—a mid-mounted engine driving the rear wheels through an automatic five-speed Jatco gearbox. But then it gets interesting. The output drive employed by _____ to power a second axle is put to use driving a water jet with 2200 pounds of thrust. _____ had to develop the jet unit from scratch because off-the-shelf designs were too bulky and heavy. Even the cooling system is complex, with a conventional air-cooled water radiator for road use and a water-cooled heat exchanger for boat use.
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Have a go.
 
Crap, I know what it is, but I can't remember the name. LandShark?
 

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