商业报道:08最酷汽车分享 II

Coolest cars of 08, part 1

Fortune's Sue Callaway picks the fastest, best performing and good looking sports cars and takes them to the track.

Hi, I'm Sue Callaway, car columnist¹ of Fortune Magazine. And I am here at the Las Vegas motor's speedway to test the coolest cars of 08.

The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, the flagship of the company in Maranello. Ironically Ferrari says that this car is the one out of the three they made that is not suitable for the track. But performance was, this car stands up with the rest of them here today. It's got incredible power from a very smooth D12 and an amazing new gearbox. Lots of great balance in fact this car feels more eager than a lot of the cars here. And with this, Ferrari introduced a new customization program, you can personalize just about anything you want on this car, this particular one has over 100,000 dollars with special touches on it. All and all, the sound, the smell, the beauty, a Ferrari truly is greater than the some of these cars.

The Aston Martin DBS certainly has to win one of the beauty awards in our top coolest cars. It's a big gorgeous talkeepowerful grand touring car, probably a little unfair to put on a tight road course like this, although it handled aberbly. But this is a car for the big open road. And frankly², for a lifestyle, that's the highest and the James Bond and the most of all of looks could kill, this one is license³.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised driving each of the coolest cars to think that the next one may just be the coolest. This, the Tesla wins on a lot of measures. It is the first electric sports car to hit the market. But that isn't the only thing impresses about it, it's impressive because it’s an amazing sports car period, it's balanced, it's precise, it's the best, it's capable. And when you shut the traction⁴ control off, you can slide it around like the best of them, thanks to a thousand pounds of battery in the rear. This is the future and it's here.

1 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

2 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

3 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

4 traction   

n.牵引；附着摩擦力

参考例句：

• I'll show you how the traction is applied.我会让你看如何做这种牵引。
• She's injured her back and is in traction for a month.她背部受伤，正在作一个月的牵引治疗。