Word: ferrari
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Legal expatriates often find their training helpful in consulting, banking, accounting and many other fields. Attorney Donald Carano and a partner acquired eight vineyards in Sonoma County, Calif., in 1985. Says Carano, now the general manager of the Ferrari-Carano Winery: "Law provides the grounds for a natural evolution to business...
...growl. The exhaust note, as you wind the little, high-revving, 116- h.p. engine up through five gears, sounds like one-fourth of a Ferrari. Or, memory says, like an old MG-TC or Porsche Speedster. Which is to say, cunningly tuned to bring a grin but not a police cruiser. This is true, more or less, of the Miata's performance. Steering is solid and very quick; cornering is flat, without sway or slosh; and straight-out acceleration (0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 sec.) is brisk but not pavement scorching...
Thanks to unusually passionate praise from car-buff magazines, the Miata is by far the most talked-about new auto on the market. Road & Track named it one of the five best cars in the world, along with the Ferrari Testarossa, the Porsche 911 Carrera, the Corvette ZR-1 and the Mercedes-Benz 300E, chichi chariots all. Not the least of the Miata's attributes is its base price: just $13,800, or about $600 less than the average new-car price that U.S. consumers are currently paying. At the moment, however, the Miata is so popular that some dealers...
Although Detroit's automakers have designed and built every type of car imaginable in the past 90 years, they have never produced a world-class sports car that could match a Porsche or a Ferrari...
...speed of 180 m.p.h. and can go from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in a blistering 4.2 sec., making it the fastest factory-built car in the world. Moreover, the Corvette more than holds its own in road- hugging tests against the $75,000 Porsche 928GT and the $180,000 Ferrari Testarossa...