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"Designing a functional prototype from an idea in such a short time was challenging. It was a tremendous feeling when everything functioned as designed the first time" said Brett Wallihan, MillenWorks Design Engineer, "You just don’t expect a vehicle to rotate around its own axis like that. It was surreal."
This statement summed up for the high praises and awe the crowd bestowed on the Jeep Hurricane took center stage at the Detroit auto show DaimlerChrysler Corporation press conference.
Innovative in style, the Jeep Hurricane included a centrally located twin-engine transfer case, in-board brakes, drive shafts, front and rear steering, and complete corner assemblies. It has a centrally located transfer case coupling power from both engines and distribute all wheel drive torque to each corner of the vehicle. The Jeep Hurricane's Shift-by-wire mechanisms allow the wheels on one side of the vehicle to run in reverse, which, coupled with split solid axles and 55 degrees front and rear wheel toe-in angles, allows the vehicle to rotate around its own axis.
Jeep Hurricane 2005 has Four Wheel and Crab Steering capability, with a combination of traditional and "steer by wire" technologies. The total of twenty inches of suspension travel was achieved through the use of a purpose-built front and rear double A-arm independent wishbone suspension with coil over dampers.
Superior engineering describes the effort put into every inch of the Jeep Grand Cherokee by its grand designers -- the Millenworks. The new concept vehicle challenged the creative boundaries of MillenWorks’ engineering team and the result is amazing.
One of the most popular Honda SUV’s on the market is the Honda CR-V, which is considered to be what is called a ‘crossover’ SUV. This Honda SUV is a car that has an SUV or sport utility vehicle look but is assembled on a more economical construction. The Honda SUV, CR-V, was ‘copied’ from the extremely popular Honda Civic in order to meet a growing demand for a SUV made by Honda. The letters CR-V stand for “comfortable runabout vehicle” and comes with either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.
The very first Honda SUV that was planned ‘in house’ by Honda
was the CR-V in 1996. While
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In spite of reported overall declining sales in SUVs, Jeep has seen its two largest entries into this Auto segment enjoying surprising results for the month of October 2005. As reported in the article “Topic: Big trouble for big SUVs: Sales and prices of used-utes continue to slide” in an edition of the Automotive News,
"Prices are falling, and they are falling fast," Webb says.
Sales of new large SUVs plummeted 48.1 percent in September from a year ago. For the first nine months of 2005, those sales were 15.5 percent below the same period last year.
Daimler-Chrysler reported that
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There are a several highly-skilled specialist engine tuners in Germany, including AMG, which is now part of DaimlerChrysler, and which is now producing its own V-8 engine. This is claimed to be the most powerful production V-8 in the world. Then, there is Alpina which has had a long association with BMW, such that some of its models are actually built on the BMW production lines. The latest BMW Alpina is the B5 with a supercharged 5.0 liter engine developing 500 bhp, making it as powerful as the BMW M5.
Another big name in tuning in Germany is Brabus. Like
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For ages the Holy Grail of luxury-car recipes has been to somehow blend sumptuous richness with sleek high-tech sport. But rarely are the fruits of such compromise anything close to perfect. For instance, when attempting this blend, really sporty luxury cars tend to look thinly contrived when they try to be Olde-Worlde traditional at the same time. Likewise for plush quasi limos that attempt any sort of athletic sportiness.
One of the few cars that's arguably pulled off this blend with deep genuineness is Jaguar's luxury flagship, the XJ8.
These big sedans are offered in base XJ8 and hotter XJR models on
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Last February 9, 2005, Toyota Unveiled an all new sport utility vehicle (SUV), the FJ Cruiser. Because of the excellent response and interest generated when the FJ Cruiser Concept was presented two years ago, Toyota decided to launch a production version of the SUV. The all-new production model retains much of the design details of the original concept.
Don Esmond, senior vice president and general manager, Toyota Division said "The FJ Cruiser effectively fills a gap in the Toyota lineup which was once our core heritage - capable, affordable and durable vehicles that are youthful, fun-to-drive, aggressive and tough," He also
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