Honda Accura NSX accelerates nicely up to 155 mph

The NSX removes almost all barriers to heroic driving. Late for an appointment and need to go 80 mph around mountain curves? You won't hear the tires squeal. Getting a call on your cell phone? Nudge the transmission into full auto and the car will shift for you, smooth as a Lexus. Don't want to downshift while descending the Sierra mountains? Good luck getting the ventilated foot-diameter rotors to heat up enough to make the brakes fade. Worried that your $85,000 car and cell phone aren't enough to attract a partner and anxious to get a tan? Take the top off your NSX-T and store it in the ingenious spot above the engine that doesn't rob you of any luggage space.

I wish I could be like one of those studs from Car & Driver magazine and tell you that "the NSX accelerates nicely up to 155 mph when the limiter kicks in harshly" or "the NSX steers neutrally until 0.95 g but then starts to oversteer slightly." But I can't. I'm too old. I'm 32 and believe that I'm going to die one day and I hope it won't be soon. I drove the NSX from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back, about 1000 miles total. Adjusted for the twisty roads along the coast and in the Sierra, I drove faster than I've ever gone in my life. I never came close to any limit imposed by the NSX. I would be scared to test the limits of this car on a public road.You can get the NSX with a 5-speed manual or 4-speed Formula One-type automatic tranmission. My testosterone-poisoned psyche yearned for a manual transmission, but rationally I knew that all race cars these days have "semi-automatic" transmissions.

The console-mounted shifter in my automatic NSX-T had four settings: 4, 3/M, 2, 1. In "4", the car behaves like any other with an automatic transmission: it chooses the best gear from 1 through 4. Shifting into 3/M from a stop, the car starts in first gear. You can accelerate until just before redline and the transmission will not shift. All control has moved into a little stalk by your right index finger. Tip it up and the car will instantly shift into second gear. Another tip up and you're in third gear. Tip it down and the car will shift back to second, assuming that won't result in overrevving the engine.While other car companies whined that the new California emissions standards were impossible, Honda figured out how to meet them with minor valve timing and induction system tweaks. The same kind of engineering brilliance was applied to the NSX's all-aluminum 3.0-liter V-6. It produces 270 hp and 210 lbs-ft of torque, which is ample considering that the car only weighs 3100 lbs.

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Freightliner Century With Aerodynamic Hood

Evolving from the dramatic beginning, the Century S/T (safety and technology) has added a host of new standard technologies to increase productivity, efficiency, comfort and safety. Designed not limited to only technology and safety it also provides a comfortable home and work place for the owner operator or driver. If you seek the most modern technology to achieve maximum efficiency, these units meet and exceed those same demands daily.

The Freightliner Century has been one of the company's most successful attempts at combining style and comfort with modern aerodynamics and fuel efficiency. It is one of the most common trucks on the road, with a huge following among companies with fleets full of trucks and owner-operators looking for a solid truck that won't break the bank. Its unique headlight design and hidden fuel tanks are among the aesthetic features that distinguish it from other trucks available today.

The Freightliner Century Class S/T was designed for maximum efficiency. The aerodynamic hood on the Freightliner Century reduces air drag and improves fuel efficiency, while the specially designed grille on these Freightliner trucks provides for increased airflow and optimum cooling efficiency. Lightweight but strong materials used in the hood and fenders of the Century S/T model truck provide reduces weight, allowing you to haul heavier loads. With features like a self-adjusting clutch, the Freightliner Century Trucks are designed for easy maintenance and long life, making them one of the most dependable and efficient used trucks.

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Freightliner Cabover With Double Wheels

In North America, semi tractors usually have 3 axles, the front, or “steer”, axle having two wheels, and each of the two rear, “drive”, axles having a pair of “dualies” (double wheels) on each side. Thus, the most common configuration of tractor has 10 wheels, however in some cases dual wheels are replaced by tires known as “super singles” (see below), or wide-base singles, to reduce the weight of the tractor. (The weight reduction is about 180 pounds (82 kg) per axle when using super singles). In this case the tractor will only have six wheels. A smaller tractor, having a single drive axle (six wheeler) is often used to pull shorter trailers in tight urban environments, such as downtown areas where a 60-foot (18 m) rig would be too difficult to maneuver. Sleeper cabs (trucks with sleeper units) usually don’t have single axles, but both day cabs and trucks with sleepers are produced with them.

Although the sum of the weights of the tractor and the trailer (the gross weight) is normally limited to a certain amount, some roads are marked with a different gross restriction to prevent road damage. Cargoes that exceed allowed weights are usually marked with overweight load and must obtain a permit to use certain roads.

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Freightliner Columbia With Mecerdez MBE 4000 Engine

The Grand Cherokee was the first Chrysler-badged Jeep product. Development work for the new model continued and Chrysler employees (after the 1987 buyout of AMC) were eager for a late-1980s release date; however, CEO Lee Iacocca was pushing for redesigned Chrysler minivans, thus delaying the Grand Cherokee’s release until late 1992 as an Explorer competitor. Unlike the Explorer, the Grand Cherokee utilized monocoque (unibody) construction, whereas the Explorer was a derivative of the Ranger pickup with a separate body-on-frame.

Specifications
2003 Freightliner Columbia with Mecerdez MBE 4000 engine. 70 units of 2003 Freightliner Columbia day cab with Mecerdes MBE 4000 engine 350 HP, 10 speeds manual trasmission, 178" wheelbase, 22.5" tires size. Please contact for more information.

The Grand Cherokee’s origins date back to 1983 when American Motors (AMC) engineers were designing a successor to the smaller Jeep Cherokee (XJ). Three outside (non-AMC) designers—Larry Shinoda, Adam Clenet, and Giorgetto Giugiaro—were under contract with AMC to create and build a clay model of the Cherokee replacement, then known as the “XJC” project. However, the basic design for the Cherokee’s replacement was well under way by AMC’s in-house designers and the 1989 Jeep Concept 1 show car foretold the basic design.

Production of the Grand Cherokee started shortly afterward in the purpose-built Jefferson North Assembly in Detroit, Michigan, United States. European Grand Cherokees are manufactured in Austria by Magna Steyr.

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Freightliner Argosia With Advanced Technologies

Argosy offers a choice of two leading engine manufacturers: Cummins and Detroit Diesel, as well as a host of standard features that are optional on other marques.  As a subsidiary of Daimler AG, Freightlinerhas unlimited access to the world's most advanced technologies, which have helped create one of the most state-of-the-art transport solutions available.

In the Argosy, Freightliner demonstrates advanced transport technology. The Argosy is the benchmark in safety & productivity featuring the world’s safest workplace entry and exit with a swing out staircase ensuring employees the modern convenience they deserve. Argosy’s enormous living environment complete with an entirely flat floor provides employee comfort & freedom for unrestricted movement throughout the cab.

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Freightliner Cascadia, The New Class 8 Truck

Freightliner Cascadia is an revolutionary new Class 8 truck for on-highway applications. Built from an entirely new platform, the Cascadia delivers significant fuel savings and is designed based on the Run Smart™ philosophy to be the most productive, efficient, and drivable truck on the market. Plus, with its new styling, a quieter and more comfortable cab, ergonomic controls, and exceptional handling, the Cascadia was specifically constructed with driver comfort and improved operating ratios in mind.
It may not look like anything revolutionary to the untrained eye, but to hear DaimlerChrysler tell it, the all-new Freightliner Cascadia is very much a big deal.

It's built on a new platform that readily accepts EPA '07-compliant engines and is ready to play home to powerplants built off DCX's Global Heavy Duty Engine Platform, the first of which are set to arrive later this year from Detroit Diesel. It also incorporates a new, common Electric/Electronic Architecture, and many features and systems were designed from the outset to be easily accessible, repairable, and/or replaceable to ensure that the rig's able to maximize its on-road time.

It's lighter than other competitors due in large part to its aluminum cab, and boasts a 3% increase in fuel efficiency over its predecessors thanks to a design that was perfected using Freightliner's wind tunnel, which is the only one designed for vehicles of this class. Driver and passenger are not ignored either. The cab features car-inspired ergonomics, an improved HVAC system, copious sound-deadening measures, larger seats that sit on their own shock absorbers tuned to the trucks suspension settings, improved lighting, and more. You can get additional details via the Cascadia website and DCX's press release, which is pasted after the jump.

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Freightliner Coronado combines traditional design

The Freightliner Coronado combines traditional design elements with the latest technical and comfort features. The Coronado is available with a spacious, 2m long raised-roof sleeper cab, a medium XT (extra high) raised roof sleeper cab or a normal cab. The Coronado can be supplied with different engines by Detroit Diesel, Caterpillar and Cummins, with outputs of up to 450 kW (600 hp). It is fitted as standard with a 370 kW (500 hp) DDC Series 60 engine.

Despite the ostensible romanticism of the trucker lifestyle, cost-effectiveness and reliability are key criteria, particularly to owner-operators. A truck which is able to meet it is particularly the self-driving transport operator who is most interested in facts such as the tough day-to-day requirements of this customer group must therefore be uncompromising in concept. Independent truckers who want a personal heavy-duty truck are often obliged to make do with used vehicles that are no longer technically up-to-date. The Coronado provides the requisite styling but also reflects the state of the art in terms of appointments, ride comfort, handling, fuel consumption, productivity, availability and safety. The Coronado has the soul of a vocational truck, and that just makes it the toughest on-highway beast rolling down the road. With the power you need to charge up hills, and the efficiency you’ve come to expect from a Freightliner, the Coronado is a truly amazing on-highway machine.

Your truck makes money on the road, not in the tech bay. That’s why we built the Coronado® to be strong enough to take everything an off-road driver can throw at it, but still be efficient on the asphalt. With the soul of a vocational truck, it will tackle even your biggest on-highway needs, and still maintain great uptime. As in all trucks by Freightliner, safety for the driver and other road users is top priority in the Coronado too. In the event of an accident the optional sidebag on the driver's side provides additional protection. Moreover, the sleeper cabs meet the strict European and Swedish crash test standards. The truck manufacturer Freightliner has its headquarters in Portland, Oregon, USA and is a member of the DaimlerChrysler Group, the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer.

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