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"Since the dawn of the automobile, its creators have strived to extract greater and greater performance from their machines. Purely speculation on my part, but I can picture Karl Benz tugging on his ample walrus moustache, staring pensively into middle distance and scheming about the successor to the 1886 Patent Motorwagen. &amp;quot;Hmm, lighten the horizontal flywheel for quicker revving? Go `Plus 1&amp;#039; on the carriage-wheel rubber? Paddle shifters on the tiller? Oh, wait, I&amp;#039;ll need to invent a transmission with multiple ratios for that.&amp;quot;           Okay, maybe that&amp;#039;s an exaggeration, but in more modern times, the desire to broaden the performance envelope is greater than ever, to create a car that&amp;#039;s all things to all people. For our purposes here, that involves making a sports sedan handle like a sports car. The concept certainly has merit, and has been achieved with varying degrees of success over the years; at the late 1960s&amp;#039; pinnacle, think sedans like the BMW 1600/2002 and Alfa&amp;#039;s blocky yet ultra-cool Berlina. I owned a 1600 years ago, and although it had roll angles of the Ni\u00F1a, Pinta and Santa Mar\u00EDa combined, it clung like Shoe Goo in the corners. It also had a freakishly large trunk, seating for five in a pinch and the outward visibility of an aquarium (although its ultra-slim pillars likely wouldn&amp;#039;t fare well in a rollover). Consider that the BMW had two doors yet was considered a sedan owing to its roofline and generous rear seating, and the sports-car/sports-sedan line of demarcation gets fuzzier still.           And so the quest continues, and we&amp;#039;ve assembled two modern pairings to see how they measure up, in terms of commuting, load carrying, day-to-day usability, and most importantly, their fun factor when driven hard. Selection criteria for this particular test were straightforward...the cars needed to originate from the same country, and their 0\u201360 times and prices had to be in the same ballpark. With our VBOX data-loggers in tow, we journeyed to Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada, for lapping on the 1.5-mile &amp;quot;Radical Loop,&amp;quot; and another week strafing our favorite local cloverleafs, transition roads and highways. Finally, we took them to our usual test venue at El Toro to get a fresh batch of acceleration and handling numbers to see how they perform under identical surface and weather conditions.   So what&amp;#039;ll it be, two doors or four? Read on, and hopefully we can shed some light.   Up first: Nissan 370Z vs. Mitsubishi Lancer Evo GSR &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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