SPEED Test Drive

On "Test Drive," motorheads and speed demons of all descriptions put the world's most buzzworthy cars through their paces. Why waste time cruising from one auto dealer to the next when some celebrity or NASCAR driver will test-drive all your favourite cars on television? You can go zero to 190 in your bathrobe, and you don't even need proof of insurance. Every week, "Test Drive" takes a test-worthy vehicle out onto the proving grounds, puts the pedal to the metal, and shows what happens. In recent episodes, "Test Drive" aggressively has challenged auto makers' and advertisers' claims about the performance characteristics of new products from General Motors: Is the new and improved Corvette as sporty and buffed-up as it seems? Does the new Cadillac live-up to its billing as the world's fastest production sedan and remain true to its Cadillac heritage. Is "Buick turbo" an oxymoron after all? By no means biased toward any nation's wheeled goods, "Test Drive" also has challenged the notions of "naughty Volvo" and "BMW high-performance diesel." Best of all, the television guys neatly outfitted in gloves, glasses, and fireproof suits, push, test, and punish the glitzy gas-gulping machines more than you ever could with the wife and kids in the back seat.

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