Supercar Picture Gallery

Supercar Picture Gallery

The most unusual "supercar" proposed may have been the Ford Nucleon concept car of the late 50s. It had a small nuclear reactor in the trunk (in proposal - they never built one) and the target was 5000 miles between refuelings. An exercise to those of you with engineering or physics backgrounds is to figure out a few "practical" schemes to do this that might have been used. Take 20 minutes and talk about performance and safety tradeoffs.

Gallery Honda Accord Coupe 2008

Gallery Honda Accord Coupe 2008

The 2008 Honda Accord Coupe will be available in two versions i.e the 2.4 liter inline-4 i-VTEC DOHC engine which could produce 190 hp and a 3.5 liter V6 i-VTEC SOHC engine that could produce 268 hp.

Even though both the sedan and the coupe come with V6 engine, there’s a significant difference between the two of them in term of the valve train. The coupe V6 engine doesn’t have the Variable Cylinder Management system like the one in the sedan. This will lightened the weight and directly improve the torque curve at low to medium speed compared to the sedan. Another obvious difference is that the coupe comes with only a 6-speed manual transmission whereas the sedan is equipped with only automatic transmission.

Honda Accord Coupe Concept 2009

Honda Accord Coupe Concept 2009

Eighth generation of Honda Accord is very near to its release. So how would 2009 Honda Accord Coupe that is going to be launched around the spring or summer of 2008 look like. We have very little information on that but what we could claim is that it would very much resemble 2009 Honda Accord Coupe Concept, revealed in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

We could very much expect a choice between 4-cylinder engine and a V6. The next generation V6 (with Honda’s i-VTEC variable valve timing) is going to be more fuel efficient as claimed by company. V6 with its Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) technology will surely make it possible as the technology de-activates every other cylinder when the car is cruising under light load to reduce fuel consumption. Once higher power is required engine runs with its all the cylinder activated.

There is no doubt for the safety features of the future Honda Accord Coupe due to Honda’s Safety for everyone initiative. Honda has set up a baseline of safety features for all its future models. 2009 Honda Accord Coupe will be for sure have front and side-impact airbags for people sitting at front seats, the curtain style head protection airbags for both front and rear would fall in the basic safety features. The electronic stability control and advanced anti-lock brakes presence could not be denied. ACE i.e. Honda’s Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure would be present which incorporates a front-end frame structure primarily designed to wholly soak up and dissolve crash energy over a big area in case of a frontal collision.

We wish that 2009 Accord concept Honda will make it to production without too many changes.