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...Real Death Race Death Race seems just fine, in its churning turbo-tone, until you watch the film that inspired it. Death Race 2000 was a snarky exploitation film put out by Roger Corman's New World Pictures. The director was Paul Bartel, best known for his elegant horror comedies Private Parts and Eating Raoul. The script, from a story by Ib Melchior, was by two Corman stalwarts, Robert Thom (Wild in the Street, Bloody Mama) and Charles B. Griffith, the seminal creator of early Corman monsterpieces, from It Conquered the World to The Little Shop of Horrors...
...stiff in this category, what with Nite Owl's ship, Bond's Aston Martin and some sort of GI Joe digging device on the floor. But this Mustang on steroids designed for NBC's new Knight Rider boasts Lamborghini doors, a top speed of 377 m.p.h. and, most importantly, turbo-boost. All that vehicular decadence helps us forget about $4/gal...
...borders in every way" and slamming its "greater and greater disdain" for international law. Enraged by U.S. moves to station a missile defense system on his doorstep, Putin withdrew Russia from a Cold War-era treaty governing the size of conventional military forces in Europe, and ordered its old turbo-prop Bear bombers out of mothballs to fly nuclear patrols along old Cold War frontiers. Last week in Russia, he made the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense wait 45 minutes for him before delivering them a tongue-lashing over the missile defense plan. Another jab follows on Tuesday, when...
...downshift. In town, a new feature prevents the car from rolling backward when you take your foot off the brake to accelerate after you've stopped at a light. The automatic has optional shift paddles. The 328i has a more than healthy 230-h.p. engine, although the turbo 335i model ($50,000) gets you to 300 h.p. These same power plants will be packed into new 128i and 135i coupes, to be introduced next spring...
...true that you can judge how successful someone is by the car he drives, then Richard Thorne is doing very, very well. Most of the time, for quick trips to meet clients in Philadelphia or Boston, the New York City--based publisher makes the drive in his turbo Porsche. When he wants to impress, as he did last summer when he and his wife attended a party in tony Westchester, he indulges his inner child and pulls out the canary yellow Ferrari. When the mood strikes, he might also tool around Manhattan in a Mercedes E series or the Corvette...