The chassis package also produces modest, 0.75-g skidpad cornering. Not so the brakes, however: though normally firm of pedal, the vented front discs and the small rear drums require 218 feet to stop the ES from 70 mph. The front tires feel anything but overburdened. The Eagle's steering winds and unwinds with reassuring sensitivity, especially for a package with 63.4 percent of its 3052 pounds on its nose. The more sporting ES, not yet tunneled, would probably produce a less outstanding result. The slimmer stance of the LX, thanks to 5.5-inch-wide steel wheels and 185/75R-14 tires, presents a smaller frontal area, for a Cd of 0.30. Working away between suspension and road are 6.0-by-14-inch alloy wheels and 205/70, HR-rated Goodyear Eagle GT+4 all-weather performance tires. Gas-pressure Fichtel & Sachs shocks cushion the trailing-arm, torsion-bar-sprung rear suspension, providing snugger control than you'll feel in the LX. The ES's suspension settings are firmer than the LX's, with 20-percent-stiffer springs up front and sport valving in the front struts' integral shock absorbers. Giugiaro's basic trim job comes in two cuts, one an LX luxury version with slim rub strips, the second our ES sport version with wide bands of protective cladding visually connecting the wheel wells. It even competes with the graceful 5000, which showed the world how high a sleek sedan could soar. Like many sedans today, the Eagle lifts off on thermals of Audi-like ideas. Such worthy birds as the Ford Taurus, the Mercury Sable, the Pontiac 6000, the Buick Century, the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, the Toyota Cressida, the Nissan Maxima, and the nifty new Audi 80 and 90 are in for a feather-ruffling. Imagine Chrysler's pleasure in discovering that the engaging, modestly priced Franco-American Eagle stood ready to fight for nesting rights with every mid-size family sedan on the market. The thoughtfully developed Premier, however, undoubtedly looked to Iacocca and his cohorts like a boon.
The tinny Renault Alliance econobox and the derivative GTA hotbox, though built in America, did not rank as assets of note. AMC's on-line assets were pretty much limited to the perennially successful Jeeps. Chrysler, by then rolling in dough, stepped in and bailed out Renault by buying AMC. Renault attempted to bail AMC out of trouble but fell into troubles of its own. This capable, roomy new sedan was developed by the American Motors Corporation and Renault, AMC's parental French connection at the time. The Eagle Premier may prove to be Iacocca's savviest career move yet. And now here comes Lido again to fill the picture tubes of the nation, this time enjoying the rub-off from the Eagle Premier-another timely machine with which America's automotive stepfather had little to do until he walked it down the aisle. Iacocca has since overseen the births of several other models, but all of them have sprung from the K-car platform-broadenings of its potential, but hardly the results of fresh thinking. The wildly successful Caravan/Voyager minivans were in the works, too, before Iacocca arrived. The K-car, however, was not Iacocca's baby: it was created before Lido hit Highland Park. When he rode in to Chrysler to save the day, he did so armed with an enormous government loan the corporation quickly harvested massive profits from its new K-car line and paid us taxpayers back.
Iacocca has hit such highs several times over the two and a half decades since he bred the original Mustang during his tumultuous times at Ford. This Eagle, in fact, may prove one of Lido's luckiest strikes.Ĭhrysler, under Iacocca's guidance, recently snapped up American Motors and renamed it Jeep/Eagle. The new Eagle bears no relation to the old American Motors four-wheel-drive Eagle. After all the good fortune that has lit up his career, he finds himself hawking the all-new Eagle. There's over $5000 dollars worth of Prizes to be won from our AMAZING sponsors - including DungeonFog, Great GM, Caeora, Tabletop Loot and Ironrise Games! Prizes are given out via prize draws for those who successfully complete the Gold (30 prompts completed), Silver (20 prompts completed) or Copper (10 prompts completed) achievements.From the April 1988 issue of Car and Driver. World Anvil's Summer Camp is a worldbuilding challenge like no other! We challenge you to answer 30 worldbuilding prompts - in whichever world and whichever order you like - during July! Each entry should be at least 300 words, and a new article. Over $5000 dollars of prizes up for grabs!.Get inspired by answering 30 worldbuilding prompts over July 2019.SUMMER CAMP IS HERE! You know what that means!!
0 kommentar(er)
