But despite all the sophistication and performance, I couldn't help but feel that the Cayenne is like a tenuous coalition of warring Balkan tribes: its weight fights its horsepower, and both its weight and horsepower fight its brakes, as effective as they are.
Similarly, in the last decade there have been major economic changes in the world, which also affects product distances and sophistication (economic performance in China, for example).
The X-line has garnered praise from all corners for its sophistication and performance, and adding pro-grade weather resistance to a body in this range is another example of its strategy of finding opportunity for growth in the niche enthusiast market.
Bioinformatics approaches in allergen prediction have evolved appreciably in recent years to increase sophistication and performance.
And "The Master," which won several top prizes at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, was praised for its visual sophistication and performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, but also criticized for being too cerebral.
Like Armstrong, he is jazz, and jazz added a new level of performance sophistication to Western music.
As a teen-ager, I didn't know the Brazilian and American records being pilfered, and it hardly mattered: sophistication is a performance that isn't ever precisely real or fake.
The production changes imposed by the Shin-Gijutsu group, the cadre of former Toyota engineers to whom Porsche turned for advice three years ago, mean that more cars are produced faster by fewer people without losing technical sophistication and road performance.
Decentralization has no impact on the CAD technology performance relationship, formalization has some positive effects, and the use of teams is helpful only in moderating the influence of sophistication on overall performance.
Understanding the remarkable operation of nature's biomotors has provided researchers with new insights into how to impart greater sophistication onto the performance of man-made nanomachines.
