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The AURA XR can put on some significant steam: 0-60 mph trips by in the mid-six seconds. And there's no brake-throttle trick to it, just stand on gas. Shod with the 50-series Pirellis, the front-drive XR can put down nearly as much torque as it can make without chattering the traction control. Green means go. The low-speed punch is welcome, but it's the car's mid-throttle verve that makes it fun to drive -- and, God help me, it is fun to drive. There's plenty of torque in the lower registers of the tach (251 pound-feet at 3,200 rpm), accessible thanks to the paddle-shifted slushbox, which sews gears together with nary a seam. Because the transmission logic heavily favors higher gears in the interests of fuel economy, the paddle shifters are doubly helpful on curving uphill grades. On long stretches of highway, once the gearbox has settled into super-overdrive mode, the AURA XR cruises effortlessly at 130 kph (80 mph), which incidentally is the speed limit on most of the autobahn these days.
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