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The Murciélago has been in Lamborghini s 16 United States dealerships since December 2001. Since then, 200 have been sold. When a dealer places an order, the car is air-freighted from Italy in a sealed container and can be disrupting American schoolchildren in as few as 10 days. There are two options only: pearlescent paint ($2500) and a nav system ($3500). Lamborghinis are famous for being as fragile as spring ice, so it was of some concern that our test car showed 15,500 miles as much mule as bull. It s survived 35 road tests, asserted Lamborghini tech adviser Ken McCay, who is not Italian. You re the only guys who broke it [last summer, when a universal joint pulled free in the shift linkage]. We broke it this time, too, when the whole shift lever snapped off at the root. The car came with the license AL 147 , a reference to Automobili Lamborghini engineering project No. 147. Maybe project No. 148 will be devoted to shift-linkage reinforcement. ....
Tested: 2006 Honda Ridgeline vs. the Compact Pickup Competition From the Archive: Can the unconventional new Honda Ridgeline hang with the 2005 Chevy Colorado, Dodge Dakota, Nissan Frontier, and Toyota Tacoma? From the June 2005 issue of Car and Driver. Entries in the guest book at Barker Ranch, an old vacant stone house high atop Death Valley National Park the last hiding place of Charles Manson and his zombies run the gamut, from weird to creepy. Pick the Pickup That s Right For Your, New or Used Now, what in the helter-skelter do Manson and his tawdry band of zoned-out sociopaths have to do with a comparison test of trucks? Or is this yet another excuse to escape from our own frozen ranch in Michigan, fly 2000 miles west to the steady heat of Death Valley, and bomb around in stolen dune buggies, which was said to be a top-rated lifestyle activity of Manson and his walleyed crew? Or was this just Spence looking for a place to spend his golden years? ....