Super saloon
The term super saloon is used to describe a high performance saloon car. The term is used predominantly in the UK. Other parts of the world use the term sports sedan. The first ever produced four door car which could be described as a "super saloon" is the Jaguar MK2. With 3.4 liter and 3.8 liter inline 6 cylinder engines in the higher spec models, it was one of the fastest cars around the 1960's.
Definition
A super saloon describes a four-door saloon car which has been upgraded with a more sporting or performance basis. The term super saloon could be used to describe a performance four-door saloon car fitted with a V8 engine, but another term, some times used is muscle car, but that normally relates to V8 powered two-door/coupe American cars.[1]
Super saloon is also used to describe a racing car, which is based on a road going family car. New Zealand has a super saloon car racing series [2]
Examples
- BMW M5[3]
- Jaguar XJR[4]
- Jaguar XFR[5]
2010 Jaguar XFR - Maserati Quattroporte GTS[6]
Maserati Quattroporte GTS - Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG[7]
- Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG[4]
Mercedes Benz S63 AMG - MG ZS 180[8]
MG ZS 180 - MG ZT 260[9]
- Vauxhall VXR8[3]
- Vauxhall Lotus Carlton[10]
References
- ↑ Mueller, Mike (1997). Motor City Muscle: The High-Powered History of the American Muscle Car. MBI Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-7603-0196-8
- ↑ http://www.kiwicaddy.co.nz/racing_20140111_r.html
- 1 2 "Battle of the super-saloons: BMW M5 vs. Vauxhall VXR8". Autocar. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- 1 2 "Mercedes S63 AMG vs Jaguar XJR: super-saloon battle". Auto Express. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ↑ http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-categories/super-saloons
- ↑ "The Super-Saloon". City AM. April 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ↑ "Mercedes' latest super saloon has speed, luxury, supreme quality and a gorgeous V8 growl... So why did it have to be so ugly?". Daily Mail. 11 May 2013. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
- ↑ Autoexpress April 2003 "Of all the cars transformed by Rover's engineers, this motor is perhaps the most remarkable, as it turned the originally rather dowdy 45 into a fire-breathing super saloon"http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-reviews/36794/mg-rover-45
- ↑ Fleet news Sept 2003 "Ford V8 power for MG's new 260 super saloon"http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2003/9/25/ford-v8-power-for-mg-s-new-zt-260-super-saloon/14960/
- ↑ Autoexpress "GM gave the engineers at Hethel a Carlton GSi 3000 and asked them to transform it into a fire-breathing super saloon - which they did. The result was the legendary Lotus Carlton, the first four-door to crack the 170mph"http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/vauxhall/vectra/15524/vauxhall-vectra