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With most of the items that we review here at Gear Patrol, we strive to curate and highlight gear that’s attainable for most guys. Yes, some of it will still be ridiculous and unaffordable, but we are trying to focus on the staples. In a continued effort to attack products with our signature G.E.A.R. treatment [...]

Porsche Discovers Rear Doors Courtesy: Porsche North America Porsche (pour-sha) is calling the Panamera a “Four-Door Grand Touring Sports Car.” We suppose they deserve the right to call it whatever they want, but we’ll fondly refer to it as a Porsche for the unselfish father. Throw in a couple of child seats in the rear, [...]

We Grab The Keys To The 2009 Toyota Matrix And Head To Hoover Dam To Take Photographs. Let Us Tell You Why. Let us start by telling you a story about a guy who, a few years ago, was relegated to driving a Toyota Matrix for a business trip. The drive was a 6 hour [...]

By: Michael Curwood | The Truth About Cars The Acura TL is like the brainy girl in math class. If you’d told your friends you had the hots for her, they’d have stifled laughs, paused and said “who?” Since the turn of the century, the Accord-based Acura TL has been the deeply sensible alternative to [...]

Like Most Things Italian, Even Monsters Are Hot. Ducati Monster 1100    Courtesy: Ducati North America Many of you may not know this, but more than just Apple computers are announced in Cupertino, California. And for some of you, this might be the sexier beast. It definitely is for me regardless of my affinity for both [...]

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By: Megan Benoit | The Truth About Cars Over the last few years, the last generation Audi A4 was growing increasingly stale. Updated offerings from BMW, Lexus, Infiniti, everyone but Volvo have overtaken Ingolstadt’s brot und butter model. To keep the faith– or at least the faithful– Audi’s engineers initiated a massive redesign of the [...]

What Zeus Would Drive To Work. Looks fast, even standing still. Next week Audi will officially unveil the 2009 Audi RS6 at the Paris Motor Show. Audi’s teased the uber-sedan with a bevy of new shots and we’ve got a few here to share. We know little other than the fact that the RS6 will [...]

[click on image to enlarge] Suffice it to say, these days aren’t exactly ideal for car ownership. But giving up some of your monthly car payment allowance doesn’t mean you need to sacrifice image, quality or performance (and efficiency). Mazda’s laid a pretty impressive punch to the automarket with its 2009 Mazda6. The Mazda6, aestheticlaly, [...]

[click on image to enlarge] A while back Gear Patrol brought you a post on the Maserati GranTurismo S. The coupe is undoubtedly gorgeous, but honestly its four door brother, the new 2009 Quattroporte S has always been dearer to my heart, no less caused by my affinity for over-powered European sport sedans. Well, my [...]

[click on image to enlarge] The Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG is not Greenpeace approved. The Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG is not economical. The Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG 507 hp/516 lb-ft of torque will require more trips to Exxon this year than a Ford Focus would require in it’s entire lifespan… make that your lifespan. It may as well [...]

[click on image to enlarge] A car enthusiast worth his weight knows what this means: One Lap on Nurburgring – 07:59:32 For those of you that don’t, that means the car you see above, the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V, helmed by John Heinricy, did the infamous Nurburgring auto engineer’s hell in less than eight minutes. The [...]

[click on image to enlarge] Something wicked this way comes. At least that’s how the subject line should have read for the press release I received for the BRABUS sport program from the new Mercedes-Benz SL. 730 horsepower. 973 lb-ft of torque. 305/25 ZR (305, seriously?) tires riding on 20 inch light-alloy wheels. Still with [...]

[click on image to enlarge] You’re looking at the oh-nine Audi S3 Sportback, a personal favorite. Slightly larger than the outgoing model, the S3 (and A3) now carry the new front-end that has made it’s way through the Audi line-up since the inception of the R8, including the love-it or hate-it LED bi-xenon headlights. The [...]

[click on image to enlarge] The plethora of crossover utility vehicles hitting the streets is somewhat concerting to me. There seems to be a lack of vehicles that singularly excel at one purpose. Take the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon or Lotus Elise as examples. One can tromp trails and one can scorch streets. Call me old [...]