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"         Out on the road again, this time in Western Washington, where Design Director Richard Baron and I headed out to do the comparison of the and . This is the top-dollar pairing of our four sets of comparison coupes that range from the affordable / to the / to the / and our two cars. With the help of our friend, Troy Olason of Page One Northwest, we found some absolutely gorgeous driving roads on the Olympic Peninsula in the area near the Hood Canal.   The R&amp;amp;amp;T staff had decided we should round up the newest coupes on the market ( and ) and compare them with such proven competitors as the and , respectively. Then we agreed that we might as well add in some rather more expensive cars, like the and , both of which are supercharged, and at the top, the turbocharged and . Isn&amp;#039;t it amazing how car enthusiasts can come up with all sorts of reasons why it would be fun to go wring out some neat cars?            Thos L. Bryant (Photo by Richard M. Baron)   Coupes are an interesting segment in the automotive world, generally appealing more to young men and young women who place a lot of emphasis on style. And if you want to throw performance in too, buyers will go for that. Coupes come in all shapes and sizes, and we could have rounded up more pairings but we were running out of time and manpower.   While Richard and I spent several days driving the luxury coupes around the city of Seattle and environs, we found that people everywhere cast admiring glances \u2014 or even stares \u2014 at our cars. In a world filled with minivans, sport-utility vehicles, pickup trucks and family sedans, coupes emit an aura of devil-may-care fun and the freedom to be impractical, which is attractive to many of us. Riding the ferry across Puget Sound from Seattle to Bainbridge Island, several people passed by on the car deck and offered &amp;quot;Nice car&amp;quot; comments as they went.   We drove across Bainbridge and onto the Kitsap Peninsula via the Agate Passage bridge, then turned north up past Port Ludlow and onto the Hood Canal Bridge leading to the Olympic Peninsula. This is a stunningly beautiful part of our country, filled with forests that go on for miles, great bodies of water (&amp;quot;It rains all the time&amp;quot; is the mantra of the residents) and majestic mountain ranges.   Coming from the megalopolis of Southern California with its millions of people and cars, the open spaces of the Olympic National Forest were a delight to our senses \u2014 and to our driving. The smoothly paved blacktop, rising and falling through the lush forest, reminded us of similar drives in the Black Forest of Germany, and we agreed that great cars on great roads make for great experiences. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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