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First 2009 Acura TL Sedan photo

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 10:44 AM CDT

2009 Acura TL Sedan

Today, Accura released this photo of the upcoming 2009 Acura TL sedan. Available starting this fall, the TL will be the most powerful car Acura has ever produced, whatever that means, because Acura hasn’t released any further details on the car. Except that it will feature Super Handling All-Wheel Drive(SH-AWD). The guys over at Autoblog think that the car will probably be powered by the 300 hp 3.7 liter engine which currently powers the RL and the MDX.

That’s about all we’ve got so far, but stay tuned cause we’ll let you know once we get more info.

Via Autoblog

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Battle for The ‘Ring: Corvette ZR1’s 7:26.4 run

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 10:33 AM CDT

Chevrolet has released the video documenting the ZR1’s 7:26.4 lap at the Nurburgring. The time makes it one of the fastest cars in the world, beating the GT-R’s time by over 2 seconds and even beating Pagani Zonda F’s time. OK so maybe the (official) 160 hp advantage it’s got over the GT-R may have helped but still it’s an impressive time. It does seem that Nissan may be understating the GT-R horsepower a “littile” as unofficia tests put it at 550-580 hp versus the officia 480. Though that much horsepower might explain the GT-R’s stellar performance.

However, unofficial times put the upcoming GT-R V-Spec at 7:25 so the battle is far from over. Also we’ll have to see Porsche’s response as it’s not gonna take the loss of it’s crown in the sports coupe sector sitting down. The upcoming refresh for the 911 line, with it’s new direct injection, might help a little though Porsche will likely have to do better than that.

Hereare the current lap times if you need a refresh.

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TVR reborn: the 2008 TVR Sagaris

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 10:24 AM CDT

2008 TVR Sagaris

This morning, in an event where members of the TVR Car Club were invited, TVR’s Managing Director, David Oxley announced that TVR will resume production, with the 2008 version of the Sagaris, which was presented to the guests. The car is basically the same, except for the new five spoke wheels and the satellite navigation integrated into the center console.

The left hand drive indicates that the car will be produced for the global market and officials hinted that pricing will be somewhere around 85,000 Euros. Anyways, this is good news, because TVR has always been a very interesting company and we’ll keep an eye on them to give you further info when it’s available.

More photos of the 2008 TVR Sagaris after the jump.

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Source: TVR Car Club

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Busted! Bow Wow shows off with rental Lambo and Bentley

Posted: 11 Jul 2008 08:42 AM CDT

MTV Cribs Bow Wow

We don’t know about it you, but we like to watch MTV Cribs, because it’s cool to see how and where celebrities live. And we always like to get down to the part where they present what’s in their garage, we saw some pretty cool cars over the time: from beautiful classics to modern super sport or fancy cars.

In one of the episode of the show, the MTV crew went down to check Bow Wow’s crib in Miami and to check out his cars. He presented two cars, a Bentley Continental GT and a Lamborghini Murcielago (what a surprise!) and he bragged about “how he ride, how he plays!”. He actually showed us the plastic covers in the Bentley, saying that it’s brand new.

However, the guys from eGMCarTech noticed that both cars had a “Prestige” license plate and did a quick search on Google and, what do you know, Prestige is actually a luxury car rental company in Miami, you can check out their website here. It costs $2,800 a day to rent the Murcielago and $1,200 for the Bentley.

To be honest, this doesn’t really come as a surprise. I’ve always had my doubts about this show and I wondered whether some celebs really own what they show off there. And this is a great example that I was right and some of them are just ordinary liars.

Check out the video after the jump.

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