The Los Angeles Times reports:
"Feverish, strung tight, with an exhaust note that sounds like Santa's elves caught in a wood chipper, the SportBack is the perfect car for those who think perfection is overrated.
It's a well-known principle of quantum mechanics that racing stripes make a car faster. Depending on the width and color of the stripes, accessorizing paint schemes can shave 2 seconds off the quarter-mile and add 50 mph to the top speed.
No one knows why. Einstein spent years attempting to derive a Grand Unified Theory of Racing Stripes.
Consider TV detectives Starsky and Hutch's 1975 Gran Torino, a mentally defective farm animal of a car weighing 4,400 pounds and powered by a starved-for-air 250-horsepower Cleveland V-8. This engine did for muscle cars what pink feather boas do for Marine dress uniforms..."
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