[This story originally appeared in the April 2007 issue of MotorTrend with the headline "Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?"] Uh oh. Those red-and-blue strobes. Lighting up your rearview mirror like the finale ...

Ah, but this is MotorTrend. Your vehicular Fantasyland. The place where four-wheeled dreams—permissible and illicit—come true. Thanks to countless action movies and TV police dramas, the question has ...