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Seven hot cars for Valentine鈥檚 Day

It鈥檚 Valentine鈥檚 Day, and those 鈥渟exiest cars鈥� lists are rolling in. Silly? A little, but it鈥檚 too much fun not to play along. We looked at 2011 cars that were attainable (sorry, Dr. Porsche, Jaguar, Tesla), not overly obvious (Chevy Camaro, Ford Mustang, BMW 3-series), and sporting a noticeably new look. We like the Volvo C30, but it didn鈥檛 much improve a reliably pretty fleet. I haven鈥檛 driven all these vehicles, but over several years of test-driving I did race through several of these cars鈥� predecessors. You can still see the skid marks. Here, in random order, are my seven hot cars for Valentine鈥檚 Day 2011:

1. Volkswagen CC

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The Volkswagen CC (which stands for Comfort Coupe) is a lithe and 眉ber-Passat.

  • By Clay Collins Staff writer

This lithe beauty is an 眉ber-Passat, and then some for Valentine鈥檚 Day. And it can serve as a symbol for an impressive suite of redesigned VWs that also includes the Jetta TDI 鈥� a highly accessible, high miles-per-gallon (m.p.g.) diesel 鈥� and the new Passat. (The colossal VW flagship, the Phaeton? That one we don鈥檛 quite get. You want to enter that rarefied realm, just make the leap and get into an Audi A8. Or S8. But now we鈥檙e flirting with hot cars in the supermodel category.)

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