Otherwise, the 458 Spider remainsas much a rolling masterpiece of automotive art as it is a high-performance car.
"It looks like a performance car when you get in, " says Mr. Braver.
Consider the Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing: It was the first of its kind, and a singular performance car in its day.
The result is truly an American designed, engineered and manufactured four-door performance car that rivals such models as the Porsche Panamera and Aston-Martin-Lagonda Rapide.
ENGADGET: VL Destino is a 639hp, supercharged, V8-powered Fisker Karma (eyes-on)
The new car is much more of a pure performance car.
FORBES: New York Auto Show: Subaru Unveils The New Subaru WRX
Luxury and performance car makers typically build increasingly extreme and ridiculous versions of cars that are coming to the end of their design cycle, just to keep the press going.
WSJ: 2013 Jaguar XKR-S Review: A Genteel Tourer Goes Rough-and-Ready | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil
Over a plate of Argentine beef cooked on a tabletop grill at a fashionable Sao Paolo restaurant, he proudly shows his card authorizing him to drive a high-performance car on an amateur track.
FORBES: For Favela Residents, Services Delivered With Tough Love
General Motors is also introducing the Cadillac ELR, similar to the extended-range plug-in Chevy Volt, that GM describes as guilt-free motoring in a high-performance luxury car.
This year, auto makers used the L.A. show to unveil 24 cars for the first time anywhere, and 25 for the first time in the U.S. About a dozen of the premieres were from luxury brands, reflecting Southern California's status as one of the biggest luxury- and performance-car markets in the country.
The McLaren P1 is, essentially, a road car with the performance of a race car that can also drive like a zero-emissions electric vehicle for short distances.
On the other hand, the Porsche 918 Spyder will deliver super sports car performance.
ENGADGET: Porsche opens 918 Spyder plug-in supercar pre-orders, $845,000 gets you a ticket to ride
After coming so close to pole position, Alonso said he was pleased with another step forward in performance from his car.
"The performance of our car and our tire management were generally good in Canada, however our competitiveness was compromised by reliability problems and mistakes, " said Brawn.
More, it could preclude the introduction of new useful technologies which detect distracted driving and give off an alarm (based on car performance or eye movements).
He was clearly upset with the performance of his car following the race, telling reporters that he had been driving his "heart out" for no reward.
Button qualified only fifth in Spain, and a poor first lap put him down to ninth, from where he was not able to use the full performance of the car.
At the centre of the group's financial crisis is the performance of the car division, which accounts for some 40% of sales, and which made a whopping euro429m operating loss in the first quarter alone.
It comes after a run of terrible luck for the double world champion at the last two races, when Ferrari have not been able to deliver on a major improvement in performance from their car.
Hamilton was quickest in the morning runs ahead of teammate Jenson Button as McLaren look to build on the improved performance of their car in Germany last weekend in the race at Hockenheim won by Alonso.
Nevertheless, Alonso said after the British Grand Prix two weeks ago that the performance of the car had made him more confident than ever that he could win the world championship - a message he repeated at Hockenheim this weekend.
In a neighboring hall at the Paris show, Audi is teasing visitors with the eTron Spyder, a convertible version of the high-performance electric sports car the Volkswagen AG luxury subsidiary first previewed at the Frankfurt Motor Show a year ago.
At worst, I suspect there was some miscommunication between the reporter and the company about the performance expectations of the car.
FORBES: Fake Or Not, New York Times' Tesla Review Speaks Truth About Electric Cars
"It's early days to be making any claims about the car's performance, but we're very confident from the analysis and simulation we've already done that the car will definitely be quick, " he added.
Dutch thinks the real selling point is Networkcar's global positioning system, which allows owners to locate a stolen vehicle or even monitor the location and performance of the family car using a Web site.
Kovalainen was running with a new diffuser and front wing in Hungary and he was quick to make the most of the updates which gave Hamilton's car a performance gain of about 0.8 seconds a lap in Germany two weeks ago.
The California battery car start-up, Tesla Motors, bet on the performance factor when it made its first car to market the 2-seat Roadster.
Hamilton, who endured a frustrating race in Mlebourne last weekend, was naturally delighted with his car's performance.
So Keegan and his North American chief, Jonathan Rich, developed expensive tires aimed at performance- and luxury-car drivers.
应用推荐