You're out in the desert, waiting for the intense Reagan-era patriotic rush of a Space Shuttle landing- a rush even more intense than watching Sylvester Stallone pound the crap out of a giant Russian- but then you get distracted by this amazing car approaching out of the shimmering distance. Surely a car this advanced must be European or Japanese, right? Hell no! It's the 745th iteration of the K platform, the sorta-all-new Dodge Spirit!

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