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Layout-Drive! Drive-in dreams Affordable style Top designs The future of hybrids C Dallas Voice • DRIVE! 3 11.07.08 • www.dallasvoice.com Drive-in dreams Can your car reflect your taste in movies? It can with one of these specialty looks PHOTO COURTESY GENERAL MOTORS The stunning new Corvette ZR-1, above, could practically outrun a sunbeam. For a more family-friendly ride, the Ford Flex, below, is ideal for the couple with kids. Drive-ins were always about Texas, but a gay moviegoer drives a Plymouth Valiant and is more than locking face and needs to show some style, match- chased through the mountains by twitching about on the wide ing his ride with the film du jour. a Peterbilt tanker that looks like it bench seat of a muscle car, pick- A real fashion queen would crossed over from hell to ravage up or your mother’s woodgrain accessorize her movie with a con- unsuspecting motorists. No matter wagon. They were as much a veyance like these. how fast the Valiant went, it could- By Casey Williams part of young love as club hop- n’t outrun the hefty demon. ping and back room banging are Horror flick: 2009 Ferrari, Porsche and Viper today. Somewhere between suck- Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 owners will live a rerun when they ing face and running for the No horror flick gave me more encounter the Corvette ZR-1. refreshment stand, teenagers nightmares than Spielberg’s Corvette engineers are never actually watched movies. “Duel.” In the 1971 telefilm, Den- satisfied, so they supercharged Drive-ins still have their fans in nis Weaver’s nerdy character the base Vette’s V8 engine to pro- duce 638 horses. Expect 0 to 60 runs in about 3.5 seconds and a top speed in excess of 200 mph. Those are numbers that put any previous Corvette into the next county’s weeds and are plenty to outrun any lurking 18-wheelers. Still breathing? Scared? Me too! For ultimate ZR-1 performance, excessive amounts of aluminum, magnesium and carbon fiber were integrated into its design. Wider carbon fiber front fenders and hood are beautiful and light. An air splitter and ZR1-specific spoiler with raised outboard sec- tions prevent the front and rear from levitating. In Corvette tradition, the ZR-1 is designed to be daily driveable. Magnetic Selective Ride Control provides a comfortable ride by PHOTO COURTESY FORD MOTORS checking the road surface 1,000 C Dallas Voice • DRIVE! 4 11.07.08 • www.dallasvoice.com times per second and making instantaneous adjustments. When put to the test, it stiffens up imme- diately and helps the Vette turn in over 1g of cornering grip. Car- bon-ceramic drilled disc brakes dissipate heat like a blown radia- tor. With impending fuel efficiency standards, cars like the ZR1 may become endangered species. Until then, we’re in for an incred- ible adventure — a freakin’ hor- ror flick not only for passengers, but also for Lamborghini, Ferrari and Dodge. Ready for a duel? Scare up $104,820 for one to PHOTO COURTESY GENERAL MOTORS be yours. DEAD SEXY: The Pontiac Solstice, above, boasts the luscious curves of a steep mountainside road, and has the engine to make it up Family comedy: any hill in style. For rough-and-tumble cowboy types, the F-150, below, is macho reliability incarnate. 2009 Ford Flex For families ready to hit their cans, four half-liter bottles or two low-profile tires. To make the from the Solstice, and looking up own Holiday Road, watching 20-ounce bottles. moment last, Pontiac is introduc- to its big brother from Chevrolet, “National Lampoon’s Vacation” is Instead of a squawky micro- ing a Solstice Coupe. the Solstice Coupe touches all the more of a horror flick than family phone, maybe future drive-in As with the roadster, two pow- right spots. Not only does it look comedy, but Chevy Chase and his owners could broadcast high def ertrains will be available. Base hot, like a downsized Corvette, it entourage made it hysterical. In a sound through the in-car satellite models come with a 173-horse- opens up reasonable storage starring role in it and the sequels receiver. If not, there’s always the power 2.4-liter four-cylinder under the hatch and lets in the were Ford “family trucksters.” Flex’s own entertainment system, engine while GXP editions step up sunshine and starlight through a If a Subaru Outback is the sym- which puts a drive-in in any drive- to a turbocharged 2.0-liter four- removable targa top. Ah, the bol of gaytopia, then the Ford way — no need to hit the road. cylinder that generates 260 romance. Flex — with its mega Mini looks Borrow $28,995 to start your horsepower. Keeping that in per- This movie date starts under and corrugated bodysides to sim- vacation. spective, a 1990 Corvette gener- $30,000. ulate woodgrain — could ated 245 horsepower from a 5.7- become its larger alter ego. Date movie: 2009 liter V8. Expect scorching 0-to-60 Western: 2009 Ford F-150 The Griswold clan would be Pontiac Solstice Coupe mph runs to fall below 6 seconds On the silver screen, John envious of the Flex’s DVD enter- One of my favorite movies is for GXPs. Wayne played ruffians who could tainment system, in-dash naviga- “Under the Tuscan Sun” starring Nobody knows how to build a shoot straight and work hard. Off tion and Sync, which was co- Diane Lane. Based on a book by sports car like GM. Corvettes are screen, after his job was done, he developed by Microsoft. By the author Frances Mayes, it is set in comfortable, fast, solid and reli- was debonair in shirts and tails. If magic of Bluetooth connectivity, Cortona, Italy, where Lane’s char- able. By leveraging all it learned See DRIVE-IN on Page 14 cabin microphones and a button acter buys a dilapidated farm- on the steering wheel, you can house, then goes through the make phone calls, check e-mail, adventure of restoring it. In the access music and conjure up end, she finds love. I, of course, directions … all by voice com- imagined screaming through the mand. Italian countryside in an Alfa Spi- Three rows of fold-flat seats can der with my lovey at my side. carry up to seven cohorts, or This was close to the movie open a mega rumpus room. playing in designers’ minds when When it comes to really steaming they created the Italianate Pontiac up the windows, you don’t want Solstice roadster that looked like it to be bothered with leaving the came from Maranello instead of vehicle for any reason. Sneaking Detroit. If only they could get in snacks is oh-so-risqué, so stuff enough luggage in the trunk, a the Flex’s optional rear seat refrig- couple of lovers ensconced in this erator with all you munch and sip. tight cabin could make steam and It can hold up to seven 12-ounce rock its tight little suspension off its PHOTO COURTESY FORD MOTORS C Dallas Voice • DRIVE! 5 11.07.08 • www.dallasvoice.com Strapped chaps PHOTO COURTESY SCION Don’t let the financial crisis scare you away from buying one of these hot-yet-affordable transports HEIR APPARENT: The compact but smoothly-powered Scion xB, above, is a fuel-conscious juggernaut. By Casey Williams If either by choice or the result more like a mini-crossover. Many Compact cars used to be for of the recent financial crisis your special effects and wheels can be cheapsters and the poor. The xB bum is hanging in the wind, there added by the dealer for complete would make almost anybody is no need to fret. A boy has to get customization. Check out the ethe- happy, even if it weren’t the devi- around, and peddling a mountain real interior lighting. All hail ous little box it once was. bike won’t get him a chap to disco! An as-tested price of $16,230 strap. To gain command of this ship- is like stealing. Buying a new car may seem ping container, one slides through like the ultimate thumping, but wide-opening doors and into com- 2009 Honda Fit: there are some hot, cute things fortable front captain’s chairs or Puggy and pretty that will make you look sexy with- high rear bench. A center-mount- An experienced queen knows out the proverbial draft. ed digital speedometer, flanked how to throw a convincing fit to by auxiliary gauges, highlights a get her way — I once threw one Scion xB: Party for wide dashboard. XM Satellite at the Volkswagen dealer to get homo domesticus Radio, thumpin’ Pioneer speakers, $2,000 off the price of my part- Shaped like a streamlined ‘40s CD player and iPod jack get the ner’s Beetle. locomotive, the Scion xB puts a party started the moment you roll It also took a few tantrums to box around homo domesticus and homo away from domesticus. convince Honda to emigrate the party spontaneous. When Turbo smooth power roils the Fit from Europe and Japan, but launched in 2003, the first gener- front wheels via a 158-hp 2.4-liter they paid off. Breaking wind with ation xB looked like the box a four-cylinder engine and crisp five- pug nose cuteness usually Volvo came in. Starkly different, it speed manual trannie. There’s reserved for Erasure’s Andy Bell, won raves on the street and at the nothing fancy in the xB’s footwork, the all-new edition is worth all the loading dock.
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