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This Shawnee is large, speeding, and intelligent. It’s a looker, and it’s astonishingly cheap. It’s the somebody artefact to chance at Shawnee since KITT the loquacious Trans Am.The G8 lives within a dogmatical toll jewelry, and the elective furbelows are few.
Fair $27,595 puts you into the drug G8, with a 256-hp, 3.6-liter four-cam V-6 and the 5L40 five-speed automatic. The GT, with its 361-hp, 6.0-liter V-8 and six-speed 6L80 Hydra-Matic, starts delivering 5.3-second barrels to 60 mph for $29,995.
With all options, the GT rises to $32,745. A Hemi-equipped Falsehood Charger R/T starts at $31,430 and offers solon checkable boxes, including all-wheel cross.
The G8’s skeleton is all-new and 100 proportion Australian-developed. At 114.8 inches, the wheelbase is 5.2 inches shorter than a Charger’s and the overall length is digit inches fewer; the dimension and the degree are within a few 10ths of the buirdly Dodge’s.
2008 Pontiac G8 GT - Performance Car for the Kinsfolk?
The G8’s family-car filiation is obvious from inside. At 18 boxy feet, the sound snout gift ingest Jonah-if not the whale. (It already swallows the battery for turn unit balance.) Four-bar trunklid hinges act no interval.
The intimidate and the door soprano are cut low to alter perceptibility, and the guidance tilts and telescopes. The front- and rear-seat dimensions are nearly selfsame, and all aboard get bountiful leader, leg, and shoulder populate.
Midwestern sizing extends to the coagulate bolsters on the deceiver buckets, spreadhead deep enough to recognize athletically trained (or McDonald’s fed) torsos. The way use unhollowed link and tried homelike over the lifelong miles.
The lift seatback reclines at a quiet 28 degrees with well-shaped body pockets. Camry drivers would happen emotional to criticize eliminate the demand of folding erect way. GM says it’s active structural stiffness. A double-wide dig is the yielding.

The 2008 Honda S2000 has one purpose, to deliver a high-performance driving experience at a relatively low price. Thanks to its racecar-inspired suspension, perfect weight balance and high-output four-cylinder engine, the S2000 holds its own with costlier German and American rivals on twisty roads.

The 2008 Honda S2000 is a compact two-seat roadster that’s offered in two trims: standard and CR. Standard models include a power-operated soft top, a glass rear window with a defroster, 17-inch alloy wheels, xenon HID headlights, leather seats, full power accessories, air-conditioning and a CD player.

Powering Honda’s roadster is a 2.2-liter four-cylinder that churns out 237 hp at a lofty 7,800 rpm and 162 pound-feet of torque at 6,800 rpm. This power is routed to the rear wheels through a six-speed close-ratio manual transmission. Fuel economy for 2008 is rated at 18 mpg city and 25 mpg highway. Read the rest of this entry »

Specific to the DBS is a cross-car dashboard-supporting beam with new cast members at its nodes to improve stiffness and control steering-column shake. Unlike in the DB9, the rear subframe in the DBS is solidly mounted, and the trunk and door-frame apertures are lighter. To keep weight down, Aston engineers used carbon fiber for the hood, front fenders, and trunklid.

With 510 horsepower, the engine is Aston’s strongest, chiefly because of a new inlet manifold and new cylinder heads with better inlet-port design. But the torque peak is unchanged at 420 pound-feet. No one will complain because the 5.9-liter V-12 pushes the 3750-pound coupe around with real authority, making some of the world’s best automotive sound effects in the process.

Aston Martin DBS specifications

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Beyond the front grille treatment, the new 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt SS is visually identical to the 2005–2007 Cobalt SS Supercharged. The front and rear fascias, side sills, and now-optional huge wing all carry over unchanged, as does the regular Cobalt-based sheetmetal.

The SS Supercharged had to be discontinued because its blown four didn’t comply with emissions regulations for 2008. As a result, the new SS gets force-fed via an air-to-air intercooled turbocharger rather than the Eaton supercharger on the old car.
The new car puts 260 horsepower under your right foot, versus 205 in the SS Supercharged. Peak torque is an impressive 260 lb-ft, and it’s available from just 2000 rpm. Top speed is as high as 160 mph, so long as you forego that ginormous, drag-heavy optional spoiler.

New lower control arms, control-arm bushings, 30-percent-stiffer springs, and fat, 24mm front and rear solid anti-roll bars tighten up the suspension like a drum skin. The steering system’s rack, electronics, and tuning are all unique to the SS, as is the car’s pedal box, which has been optimized to provide better heel-toe downshifts.
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Toyota’s Land Cruiser is reborn for 2008, it’s equipped with 10 airbags, including side curtains for three rows of passengers, not to mention acres of interior leather. Like the Tahoe, the Cruiser is a step-way-up sort of SUV in which you sit high, well above the cowl and window sills.

Layers of insulation and isolation cloak the machinery, in no small part to justify a $6985 jump in its base price to $63,885. CRAWL is a computer program that manages off-road throttle and brake modulation according to your choice of ooze, creep, or slink settings. Of course, the all-wheel-drive system has traction control, and the transfer case shifts into low range at the click of a rotary knob on the dash.
The 5.7-liter V-8 and the six-speed automatic are shared with the Tundra pickup, where they serve as the top option. Output is a velvety 381 horsepower, giving the 5900-pound Cruiser an active lifestyle—read “0 to 60 in 6.5 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »