2008 ACURA MDX

The 2008 Acura MDX is a sport utility vehicle that is built on a car platform.The Sport Package is available at $ 45,795.A combination of MDX with Technology and Entertainment Packages can be had for $45,895, while MDX with Sport and Entertainment Packages costs $47,995.
Wood grain steering wheel –$560;
Wood grain shift knob –$121;
Full nose mask –$179;
Moon-roof visor –$138;
Side-steps –at $703;
19-inch sparkle silver wheels –$2,970.85 and
19-inch chrome-look wheels –$3,378.84.

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Jaguar XJ-S

The Jaguar XJ-S, later the Jaguar XJS, was a luxury grand tourer produced by Jaguar. The XJ-S replaced the legendary E-Type (or XK-E) in September 1975, and was based on the XJ saloon. It was developed as the XK-F, though it was very different in character from its predecessor. Although it never had quite the same sporting image, the XJ-S was a competent grand tourer, and more aerodynamic than the E-Type. The last XJS was produced on April 4, 1996, with the XK8 taking its place.

First, the XJ-S appeared in 1975 as a 1976 model. Power came from the Jaguar V-12 with a choice of a manual or automatic transmission, but the manual was soon dropped. V-12 automobiles were unusual at the time, with notable others coming from Italian luxury sports car makers Lamborghini and Ferrari. The specifications of the XJ-S compared well with both Italian cars; it was able to accelerate to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 8.9 seconds and reach 142 mph (229 km/h). The first series of XJ-S cars had a Borg-Warner Model 12 transmission with a cast iron case and a bolt-on bell-housing. In 1979 GM Turbo-Hydromatic 400 transmissions were fitted. The TH400 transmission was an all aluminum alloy case with an integrated non-detachable bell-housing.

Jaguar's timing was not good; the car was launched in the wake of a fuel crisis, and the market for a 5.3-litre V12 grand tourer was very small. The styling was also the subject of criticism, including the "flying buttresses" behind the windows.

Jaguar seized promotional opportunities with the television series The New Avengers and Return of the Saint. The New Avengers featured Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) who drove an XJ-S. Reliability issues meant that three XJ-S cars were used. Return of the Saint saw Simon Templar (played by Ian Ogilvy) driving an early XJ-S with the number plate "ST 1". Miniature versions were made by Corgi and proved popular. A decade and a half before, Jaguar had turned down the producers of the earlier Saint series when approached about the E-type; the producers had instead used a Volvo P1800.

Responding to criticisms that the XJ-S was not a worthy E-type successor, Pininfarina revealed a sporty show car in 1978 based on XJ-S mechanicals and called Jaguar XJSpider. The car never went into production.

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The most powerful Ford Focus RS

In predverii presentation of a new car - "hot" hatch Focus RS, Ford company has distributed photos of its new items, and reported some of its technical details. Debut Ford Focus RS will be held July 22 at the motor show in London.

Based on the same platform as the Focus ST car will receive 2.5 - liter 5 - cylinder turbocharged engine, which is under the hood of the model. True, in the RS and its increased capacity is 300 hp Acceleration to "hundreds" under such aggregate will take from the machine about 6 seconds.
To this peredneprivodny car was more obedient on the road, Ford equipped its new Quaife differential for the automatic reallocation of torque and a new suspension RevoKnuckle, cooked specially for sport riding.

Also Focus RS will receive 19 - inch rims, an increase of 40 millimeters track, upgraded springs and shock absorbers, as well as perenastroennoe steering system and stabilization.

In selling new Ford Focus RS will appear at the beginning of 2009.

Volvo XC60 crossover

Debut series news release took place in January 2008 under auto show in Detroyt, where a year ago, Volvo showed a prototype of the crossover.

Recall that the car is built on a platform LR2 SUV Land Rover Freelander 2 and invited both with petrol engines, and with diesel.

Volvo XC60 with a capacity of 285 petrol turboengine HP, working in conjunction with the automatic gearbox. Version crossover with diesel 185 - powerful engine under the hood comes with 6 - step "mechanics".
The new XC60 can be described as the safest car Swedish brand, which is generally known bezopsnostyu its models, thanks to equip the new system City Safety - it can mitigate the effects of collisions at low speeds in city traffic.

Jaguar Lightweight E-type

Jaguar Lightweight E-type

This was an evolution of the Low Drag Coupé. This Jaguar made extensive use of aluminium alloy in the body panels and other components. However, with at least one exception, it remained an open-top car in like the D-type to which this car is a more direct successor than the production E-type which is more of a GT than a sports car. The cars used a tuned version of the production 3.8 litre Jaguar engine with 300 bhp (224 kW)) output rather than the 265 bhp (198 kW) produced by the "ordinary" version. At least one car is known to have been fitted with fuel-injection.

The cars were entered in various races but, unlike the C-Type and D-Type racing cars, they did not win at Le Mans or Sebring.

Bob Jane won the 1963 Australian GT Championship at the wheel of an E Type.

The Jaguar E-type was very successful in SCCA Production sports car racing with Group44 and Bob Tullius taking the B-Production championship with a Series-3 V12 racer in 1975. A few years later, Gran-Turismo Jaguar from Cleveland Ohio campaigned a 4.2 L 6 cylinder FHC racer in SCCA production series and in 1980, won the National Championship in the SCCA C-Production Class defeating a fully funded factory Nissan Z-car team with Paul Newman.