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.

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

References

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ http://www.kiwicaddy.co.nz/racing_20140111_r.html
  3. 1 2 "Battle of the super-saloons: BMW M5 vs. Vauxhall VXR8". Autocar. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Mercedes S63 AMG vs Jaguar XJR: super-saloon battle". Auto Express. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  5. ↑ http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-categories/super-saloons
  6. ↑ "The Super-Saloon". City AM. April 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ 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/
  10. ↑ 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
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