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Best Vacuum Cleaner: Miele Polaris

Best Vacuum Cleaner: Miele Polaris

Posted on July 4, 2010 by admin.

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This Miele Polaris S4212 ($400) canister vacuum cleaner receives nothing but raves from owners. Everyone loves its incredibly light weight, which makes it extremely maneuverable. The Polaris works on hard floors or low carpet. Step on a button and the brushes retract to clean rugs or carpet. They may be expensive but Mieles easily last 10 years. My first Miele lasted 11, and I wouldn’t even have replaced it if I didn’t lust after this überlight Polaris so much.

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Best Electric Car: Nissan Leaf

Best Electric Car: Nissan Leaf

Posted on July 4, 2010 by admin.

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The Nissan Leaf ($32,780), an acronym for “Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family” car, is a compact five-door electric hatchback to be launched by Nissan in the U.S., Japan, the Netherlands and Portugal in December 2010. The U.K. and Ireland are scheduled to receive the car in February 2011, while global availability is planned for 2012. As with all electric vehicles, the Leaf produces no tail pipe pollution and has a reported range of 100 miles (160 km). In January 2010, the Leaf received the Green Car Vision Award by the Green Car Journal.

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Best Four-Seat Convertible: Audi S5 quattro

Best Four-Seat Convertible: Audi S5 quattro

Posted on July 4, 2010 by admin.

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Audi has launched the new Audi S5 ($68,000) convertible that, along with the new Mercedes E-Class Cabriolet, bucks the folding hard-top trend but adds its famous all-wheel drive quattro as standard. A 3.0-liter supercharged V-6, rated at 333 horsepower and 325 pound-feet torque, is just half a second slower from 0-60 mph than the V-8 Mercedes-Benz SLK55 AMG and Audi’s own V-8 S5 coupe, says Motor Trend.

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Best Two-Seat Convertible

Best Two-Seat Convertible

Posted on July 6, 2009 by admin.

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The new 2009 BMW Z4 ($45,750 - $51,650) was designed by two women. No wonder the new Z4 appears lean yet voluptuous. Besides the revamped styling, the new Z4 has a very welcome retractable hard top. The top of the line sDrive35i has a 300-horsepower, 3.0-liter twin-turbo six, and an optional seven-speed, dual-clutch automatic transmission that can be paddle-shifted via the steering-wheel.

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