The Acura car brand, from Honda Motors Company, is the luxury brand of Honda. The Acura TL series is Acura's best selling vehicle and has been ranked in the number 2 spot for best selling luxury sedan in the US, behind the BMW M3. Acura builds their cars with top quality equipment and generally last a long time, as mine has been running, and still is, for 200K miles. Acura cars are generally very large cars, but a size that isn't a problem for parking and controlling to stay within your own lane.
The TL brand of Acura is designed for speed and power, while giving it a look of luxury with a leather interior and a sleek attractive design. It features a design in which the car comes to form a point in the front, like a blade. The car comes with a dual exhaust, 225+ horsepower, and it looks kind of sporty and aggressive looking but not mean like a muscle car, while being elegant and graceful. Not only that, but the Acura TL also pulls off a look of luxury, while being just as powerful as a sports car.
The TL I own, 1999, rides smoothly even though the engine has exceeded 200K miles and I have yet to get work done on it, except once. The transmission of the car runs great and the acceleration is perfect, quick, while the handling is not too sensitive. The interior is composed of leather and their consoles are well set to be perfectly organized instead of just throwing junking into it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acura_TL
http://www.acura.com/InteractiveShowRoom.aspx?model=TL#/interior_console
http://www.acura.com/PhotoGallery.aspx?model=TL&modelYear=2011&context=photos-videos#/image8
Monday, October 18, 2010
Nissan 350Z
Near the end of the 20th Century, Nissan’s “Z” line wasn’t selling in the US and was costing the company large sums of money. Recalls of the models had to be made and Nissan was looking for an answer to it’s problem.
“Certainly, the low sales of the specialty sports car had sunk to unsustainable levels. A three-sedan strategy being pursued at Nissan North America at that time addressed the majority of the market's needs and made sound business sense. But the emotive edge the Nissan brand had always possessed was missing the focal point the Z provided.”
American’s were changing their trend to purchase more powerful cars; the Asian market couldn’t provide them. The creation of the 350Z brought Nissan back to life and back into the competition to compete at a global level once again, because the 350Z provided the power and luxury look the Americans were looking to purchase.
Ajay Panchal (Coventry University, ) designed the Nissan 350Z, from Nissan Design America, in his twenties, providing an innovative design that is still popular today.
The design of the Nissan 350Z to sound loud with a large exhaust system, bringing the look of power, and with a low sleek design in with the aerodynamics favor the cars ability to accelerate.
“The 350Z engine design needed to offer both good low-end torque for powerful acceleration from a standing start and excellent top-end breathing for high-speed merging and passing. Around-town drivability was important. No lumpy cams or hair-trigger turbos would do.”
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