The GTS's deep-socketed sport seats hold you in place as the lateral acceleration tries to squeeze you out the window.

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The GTS's star attraction is its torque-rich 4.8-liter V8, the same dry-sump, alloy-block engine as in the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4S but let off the leash a bit, with a higher redline (7, 100-rpm fuel shut-off), lumpier cam-lift logic, more aggressive transmission software (quicker, harder shifts available from the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), and additional cold-air boxes with active shutters behind lower lateral bumper intakes.

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As the addled rocker and his hyper wife learned, only 2, 000 Continental GTs are rolling onto U.S. shores this year, and each has long been spoken for.

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The beefier BX300 steps up to a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU, 1TB of storage spanning two 500GB drives, NVIDIA's 256MB GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card, and a 7.1-channel sound card.

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Nvidia's new GeForce 8800 gts has 128.

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