Japanese Sports Cars : Honda NSX or Acura NSX

Honda NSX

The Honda NSX, or Acura NSX in North America and Hong Kong, is a sports car that was produced between 1990 and 2005 by the Japanese automaker Honda. It sports a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout and was powered by an all-aluminium V6 gasoline engine featuring Honda’s Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) program.

In 1984 Honda commissioned the Italian car designer Pininfarina to design the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina Xperimental), which had a mid-mounted C20A 2.0 L V6 configuration. After Honda decided to pursue the project its management informed its engineers that the new car would need to be as excellent as anything coming from Italy and Germany.

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Dream Cars : Camaro vs Mustang vs Challenger

Defying the oddsmakers, though, America’s three trick ponies are back. And they’re back big. Those days of yore are indeed long-gone. but only because the new incarnations of the Camaro, Challenger, and Mustang are so far evolved from their famed predecessors they’re recognizable almost by name only.

Sure, the old cars looked cool and made lots of noise and got the girls, and some could even lay down a righteous longitudinal blast when the road arrowed straight. But none could match these current machines for blistering speed, cornering ability, braking power, driveability, reliability, and comfort. I mean, when I was 16, we didn’t have fancy computers to make our cars run like winged chariots, and we didn’t have in-car iPod adaptors (unless you count the Tijuana Brass on eight-track), and we sure didn’t have…never mind. You whippersnappers today don’t know how good you’ve got it.

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Future Muscle Car : Dodge Challenger SRT8

Dodge Challenger SRT8 are special edition from Dodge Challenger. The Dodge Challenger Series began on 3 in December 2007, Chrysler deposits for the third generation of the Dodge Challenger, which on 6 February 2008 debuted simultaneously at the Chicago Auto Show  and Philadelphia International Auto Show. Listing of U.S. $ 40,095, was the new version of a 2-door coupe, the common design elements in common with the first generation Challenger, although significantly longer and larger.

The chassis is a modified (shortened wheel base) version of the LX platform that underpins the 2006-Current Dodge Charger, 2005-2008 Dodge Magnum and the 2005-Current Chrysler 300th The LX platform has been adapted from the Mercedes E-Class, which the German company owned by Chrysler at the time and the search for economies of scale.

All (7119) 2008 models were Dodge Challenger SRT8 with the 6.1 L (370 cu in) Hemi and a 5-speed automatic transmission auto stick. The entire 2008 U.S. run of 6,400 cars have been sold (many of which are for above MSRP) and production to 8 Started in May 2008, Chrysler Canada offered an additional 670 + SRTS clearly badged as the mercy of the Challenger 500 (a tribute to Charger and Coronet 500) were all in Canadian Dodge dealers.

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Shelby AC Cobra : Classic Dream Car

The Shelby AC Cobra, also known as the Shelby Cobra, is an Anglo-American sports car that was produced during the 1960s

Like many British specialist manufacturers, AC Cars had been with the smooth, refined Bristol straight-6 engine in its small numbers, including its AC Ace 2-seater roadster. This is a hand-built body with a steel frame and aluminum body panels, which used English Wheeling Machine. The engine was a World War II design of BMW, which dates from the year 1960 as A. Bristol decided in 1961 to produce the engine to stop and instead used Chrysler 331 CID (5.4 L) V8 engines.

Although untrue, it is generally believed that AC was the source of power has no future, that the left and the American ex-racing driver Carroll Shelby, the company saved from bankruptcy. AC started with the 2.6-liter Ford Zephyr engine in his car. In September 1961, an airmail letter AC Shelby asked them to build him a car had been modified to a V8 engine to accept.

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