The company said that its supply of new vehicles had been tight but that new models, including the X1 and 3 Series all-wheel-drive version, had begun arriving in showrooms.

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About the same amount of horsepower used by 3-4 OTR 18 wheel diesel rigs.

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In addition, the smart fortwo electric drive can be equipped with a navigation system and a 3-spoke leather steering wheel.

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We tested the all-wheel-drive version that upgrades the V6 to a 3.7-liter version with a nominally quicker 305 horses and 273 pound feet.

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Our test car was the TL with SH-AWD ("super-handling all-wheel drive, " one of my favorite overblown Japanese brand phrases) equipped with the 3.7-liter V6 and new-for-2012 six-speed automatic (previously a five-speed).

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Meanwhile we still found the effects in Forza 3 to be a little underwhelming, but we can't blame the wheel for that, and it worked flawlessly in every other racer we threw at it.

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The saucer section would be a 0.3-mile-diameter (536-meter-diameter) rotating, magnetically suspended gravity wheel that would create 1G of gravity.

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The 616-horsepower Spider has a 3.8-litre V8 engine and 7-speed dual-clutch transmission with rear-wheel drive.

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