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Good morning!
A torrent of water passed under the bridge between the in
Chery Amulet
A torrent of water passed under the bridge bet
Chevrolet Corsica
een the introduction of the Jaguar XK 120 show car
Chevrolet Blazer
at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1946 and the Geneva
Chevrolet Lumina
Auto Show in 1961. For one thing, armed with the potent XK
Chevrolet lmpala
six-cylinder engine, Jaguar had gone sports car racing in a most
Chevrolet Niva
uccessful way. With the aerodynamic D-Type, the marque ha
Chevrolet Metro
won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's most prestigious ro
Chevrolet Caprice
d race, three years in a row. Jaguar had transitioned from
off
Chevrolet Chevi-Van
ring the public a competent sports car for the street based on se
Chevrolet Spark
an mechanicals to building very specialized sports rac
Chevrolet Cavalier
ng machinery, and then, finding the cost of world-cl
Chevrolet Lanos
ss competition rising ever-higher, it had pulled bac
Chevrolet Camaro
from its racing commitments to concentrate again of
Chevrolet Viva
cars the public could buy. With its emphasis movin
Chevrolet Aveo
back toward cars for the street, William Lyons, who wou
Chevrolet Alero
d eventually be knighted for his efforts at Jaguar, lo
Chevrolet S-10
ked to infuse his pro
duction cars with the flavor of his s
Chevrolet Tracker
orts racing winners. One of the first attempts at this w
Chevrolet Astro
s the XK-SS, a thinly disguised D-Type fitted with just enoug
Chevrolet Lacetti
equipment to make it street legal. Equipped
Chevrolet Suburban
ith a 3.4-liter version of the XK engine essentially in ra
Chevrolet Tahoe
e tune, it offered 250 horsepower at 5750 rpm, a staggerin
Chevrolet Rezzo
figure, particularly in a car so light. Top speed was just
Chevrolet Express
hort of 145 miles per hour. But on the other side o
Chevrolet Evanda
the coin, the XK-SS set one back $7,000 1957 dollars, whi
Chevrolet Trail Blazer
e a fuel-injected Corvette of the same year cost little
Chevrolet Avalanche
ore than half as much. Further, the Corvette wa
Chevrolet Corvette
far more civilized an automobile. By 1957 it had roll-up windo
Chevrolet SSR
s and a decent convertible top, while the XK-S
Chevrolet Starcraft
was in most ways rudimentary. And because its engin
Chrysler Voyager
was essentially ready for the track, it proved to be a hand
Chrysler New Yorker
ul to drive well on public roads. Just getting it
Chrysler LHS
oving from a standing start was often a frustrating
expe
Chrysler Grand Voyager
ience due to its lack of low-end torque, hair-trigg
Chrysler Vision
r accelerator and recalcitrant clutch. Fewer than 20 of these li
Chrysler Le Baron
tle devils had been produced in the early part
Chrysler Cirrus
of 1957 when a fire raced through the Browns Lane factory where t
Chrysler Concorde
ey were built. Most of the tooling for the XK-S
Chrysler Neon
was destroyed, and Lyons, sensing that this car
Chrysler Intrepid
wasn't what he really wanted anyway, decided not to r
Chrysler Stratus
sume its production. Those few that remain in exi
Chrysler Sebring
tence are rare a
nd wonderfully quirky cars indeed. Instead of
Chrysler PT Cruiser
aking the XK-SS path, Lyons set his engineering team abuilding
Chrysler Crossfire
on two experimental cars that bore the "E" designation. The E1
Chrysler 300M
was powered by Jaguar's 2.4-liter six-cylinder engine, basical
Chrysler Town
y a de-stroked 3.4 liter. For its chassis structure it u
Chrysler Pacifica
ed a monocoque tub with a space frame carryin
Chrysler SRT-6
the engine and front suspension components. The front suspension
DAF 400
was, of course, an independent design, but the E1A departe
DAF 95-380 XF
from the D-Type's model by using an independent rear
suspensio
DAF 85 360
as well. (For all its racing success, the D-Type had use
DAF 95
a fairly mundane live rear axle.) While the E1A
Daewoo Nexia
as piling up clandestine test miles, Jaguar engineers were
Daewoo Damas
hard a work on the E2A, which many in their number
Daewoo Tico
hoped would put Jaguar back in the motor racing spotlight. Wit
Daewoo Espero
racing rather than volume production in mind, the E2A was
Daewoo Leganza
n exotic machine for its day. Its powerplant was an alloy
Daewoo Prince
block version of the XK engine equipped with a racing
Daewoo Matiz
type dry sump system and mechanical
fuel injection
Daewoo Lanos
With a displacement of just a hair under 3-liters,
Daewoo Nubira
t offered 293 horsepower at a motorcycle-like 6750 rpm.
Daihatsu Rocky
Its aluminum envelope body enclosing a monocoque tub and spa
Daihatsu Feroza
e frame, the E2A would have a somewhat belated and largely
Daihatsu Storia
nsuccessful career on the racetrack. Though de
Daihatsu Applause
igned and built in 1957 and 1958, it didn't find its way to Le Ma
Daihatsu Pyzar
s until 1960 and then as part of Briggs Cunningham's multi-car ef
Daihatsu Sirion
ort that also involved Corvettes, not with a rejuvenated
Jaguar
Daihatsu Cuore
"factory team." Initially fast, it quit short of
Daihatsu Move
the halfway mark in the race, and that was pretty much th
Daihatsu Terios
t as far as international racing was concerned for t
Daihatsu YRV
e car. While it didn't enjoy the stunning succ
Derways
ss of its D-Type predecessor, the E2A did set the stag
Dodge Caravan
for the production E-Type. In fact, Jaguar's breathtakin
Dodge Neon
new sports car would take most of its architect
Dodge Intrepid
re from the E2A. Of course, with volume product
Dodge Stratus
on in mind, Lyons wisely chose steel as the
p
Dodge Stealth
imary body material. The basic tub was a monocoque of
Dodge Avenger
sheet steel to which were attached steel space f
Dodge Ram
ames for front suspension and engine and rear suspension
Dodge Viper
The front suspension borrowed from Jaguar racing pra
Dodge Durango
tice with torsion bars as the springing medium, t
Dodge Magnum
bular shocks controlling rebound and forged con
Eagle Vision
rol arms handling wheel location. The rear suspension was
FAW Jinn
an all-independent unit so elegantly designed that it beca
Ford Fiesta
e a model for a wide variety of other suspensions that
would
Ford Scorpio
follow it and even found its way under some of America's m
Ford Sierra
st beloved hot rods. In the scheme (a version
Ford Taurus
imilar to which found its way into the 1963 Corvette Sti
Ford Escort
gray) the differential was mounted to the cha
Ford Orion
sis sub-frame with in-board disc brakes on each side and
Ford Courier
then, through universal joints, halfshafts sent p
Ford Capri
wer to the rear wheels. Ingeniously, the halfshafts themselves
Ford Transit
represented the upper control link while another, low
Ford Aspire
r arm and a link that controlled braking and
acceleration f
Ford Tempo
rces completed the simple but effective system. S
Ford Mondeo
rings and damping was not nearly so simple with dual c
Ford Bronco
il-spring/tubular shock absorber units on each side, but
Ford Econovan
they were at least compact and effective. Instead of a
Ford Probe
exotic alloy racing engine, Lyons decided to stick with the 3.8
Ford Thunderbird
liter XK in-line six that was a direct descendent of
Ford Crown
he original XK engine in the XK 120. With fuel d
Ford mercury
livered by twin Weber carburetors, the iron block engin
Ford Explorer
delivered 265 horsepower at 5500
rpm and 260 po
Ford Focus
nds/feet of torque at 4000 rpm. Despite all this mechanical fa
Ford Ka
dural the most striking part of the production E-Type was it
Ford Aerostar
absolutely lascivious body. Try as designers might
Ford Puma
o top it, the E-Type has the most sensuous lines of any car ever
Ford Windstar
roduced, and it is many critics' pick as the most beautif
Ford Contour
l car ever made. Further description is unnecess
Ford Mustang
ry because the look of the E-Type has become such a
Ford Cargo
automotive icon that at the mere mention of its name,
Ford Ranger
the luscious picture comes to mind. The hit of the 1961
Gene
Ford Maverick
a show, the E-Type was offered as both a convertible
Ford Galaxy
with an available hardtop) and a coupe, and aut
Ford Cougar
journalists immediately fell all over themselves pra
Ford Fusion
sing the car. And for good reason. The independent rear suspens
Ford F-150
on provided a huge advance in handling, particularly on
Ford Escape
ad roads, and in street form the car had true 150 mile-per-ho
Ford Tourneo
r potential. It was also quick enough as a drag racer
Ford Expedition
o find itself included in a Jan and Dean hit tune of the era, "D
Ford Excursion
adman's Curve." In fact, the E-Type was,
argu
Ford F 350
bly, the car of the decade. With looks, style, pe
Freightliner FLC
formance and handling, the Jaguar E-Type was everything
Freightliner Century
a car should be. A lot of water passed through the mi
Freightliner Argossy
l from the time the Dodge brothers built engine
GMC Typhoon
for Henry Ford until the Dodge Viper peeked
GMC Jimmy
ut from under its wraps at the 1989 Detroit auto show.
GMC Yukon
ver the course of that time the Dodge brothers split wit
GMC Envoy
Ford to start building cars of their own under
Great Wall Deer
the imaginative Dodge Brothers name; Dodge
Brothe
Great Wall Pickup
s was acquired by Walter P. Chrysler as he built
Great Wall Safe
Chrysler Corporation in the image of his former
Great Wall Hover
employer, General Motors; and Dodge (sans Brothers) went
Honda Logo
from an icon of performance during the halcyon years o
Honda Civic
the Sixties to becoming largely irrelevant by the late E
Honda Prelude
ghties. K-cars and Omnis will do that, no matter h
Honda Accord
w proud one's history. A rapidly fading brand with a drea
Honda Concerto
y image were what faced Chrysler Corporation planners as the
Honda Inspire
considered what they should do for the '
89 Detroi
Honda Partner
show, and their response -- a big, brutal two-seat sports car
Honda Legend
-- stood show attendees, including your author, on their collect
Honda Vigor
ve ear. Who could have expected such a thing from a nameplate th
Honda Domani
t seemed to be barely producing a pulse, lot less a vibe?
Honda Capa
ut the Dodge Viper did emerge from the corporate cau
Honda City
dron -- somehow -- and it proved there was stil
Honda Ascot
some life in the old Dodge brand yet. The goal of
Honda Odyssey
what was referred to as "Team Viper" was a purpose-built pe
Honda Integra
formance vehicle. Everything else took a backseat to
performance
Honda S-MX
nd, because of that, the Viper had no backseat at a
Honda Mobilio
l. Like the Shelby Cobra that inspired it, the veh
Honda CR-V
cle was rough, crude and unsophisticated.
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