Overview: Based on the Ford Taurus, the MKS is the luxury car you’re likely to be upgraded to the next time you are at Hertz. Handsomely anonymous in appearance, it drives anonymously, too. Riding on a long 112.9-inch wheelbase, it’s roomy enough for three to ride comfortably in the back seat—and the trunk is ample enough to hold everyone’s luggage for a long weekend at the Marriott. A 304-hp V-6 and front-wheel drive are standard; a 365-hp turbocharged EcoBoost V-6 and all-wheel drive are optional.
Forgetting the Panamera, Cayenne and Macan, Porsche offer a pretty well-rounded sports car range. Starting with the Boxster and Cayman, and moving up the multitude of variations of the Porsche 911, all the way up to the 918 Spyder supercar. But there is a HUGE price gap between the top of the range 911 Turbo ($250,000 will all the options ticked), to the 918 Spyder ($800,000). Somewhere in that range Porsche could surely offer something to compete with the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. Something like the 913 possibly? Conceived by the fertile mind of Rene Garcia, a professional 3D modeller who has created conceptual vehicles and highly detailed models for some of the biggest movies of the past decade, including the Matrix Trilogy, Transformers, the latest Star Trekthrillers and The Avengers, the Porsche 913 is an exquisitely rendered design in every detail. It has a bit of the 918 Spyder about it, but there’s also a lot of originality to the design. It looks like a Porsche, but a