The Rolls Royce Silver Shadow is a luxury car produced by Rolls Royce Limited in between the years 1965-1980. It is also the highest sold car among the other Rolls-Royce cars and the first to use monocoque chassis.

The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is considered as the predecessor of Silver Cloud III. John Polwhele Blatchley, the chief designer of Rolls-Royce has designed the cars exteriors where he used the modern methods. Also a number of new features have been added such as monocoque construction, independent rear suspension, and disc brakes in the place of drum brakes.

Variants:

Silver Shadow II
The Silver Shadow has been renamed as Silver Shadow II in the year 1977, where a number of changes have been done which included the pinion and rack steering, improved front suspensions and alloy and rubber bumpers have been used in the place of chrome. The Silver Shadow II was manufactured in a limited version to mark the 75th anniversary of the Rolls-Royce.

Silver Wraith II
The Silver Wraith II was launched after the Silver Shadow II where a number of modifications have been done which included the covered roof, wheel covers and rear opera style windows. In addition electric divisions have been installed which takes the leg room up to four inches extra.

Camargue and Corniche
The Corniche was launched in the year 1965 which was a two-door fixed head coupe and later in the year 1967, it was followed by a convertible.

The Camargue body structure was designed by Pininfarina, an Italian car design firm. The production of the Camargue was done in between the years 1975-1986 and the Camargue is also considered the most expensive car which was higher than the price of the Phantom VI.

Shadow Based Phantom VII
The building of a new version Shadow Based Phantom VII has been considered by the Rolls-Royce, but the project never happened.

The Silver Shadow was considered as the successful model in the Rolls-Royce where 38,000 cars have been manufactured which earned massive profits for the Rolls-Royce Motors.

The GMC Acadia is a truck-like, entry-level sports utility vehicle (SUV) from General Motors. There were many firsts in the Acadia when GM introduced it in 2006. It is GM’s first passenger vehicle with a front-wheel drive option, the first GM vehicle with a unibody design, and the first crossover SUV from General Motors. With generous space in its interior, the Acadia has an eight-passenger seating capacity.

The initial GMC Acadia models are powered by GM’s High Feature LY7 V6 engines, producing 275 hp (205 kW) and torque 251 lb-ft (340 nM). In 2009, the engine was changed to the direct injected LLT which increased power to 288 hp and to 270 lb-ft torque. This SUV reputedly offers efficient fuel utilization in both city and highway driving as a result of its new 6T75 six-speed automatic transmission. Up to 4% improved fuel economy is said to be possible in the Acadia compared with other front-wheel drive GM models with four-speed automatic transmissions.

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Estimated MPG for GMC Acadia: 17 City/24 Hwy
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The GMC Canyon is a mid-size pickup truck launched by General Motors in 2004 and was introduced as the Colorado in GM’s Chevrolet stable. The pickup’s design was a joint effort among the North American and Brazilian operations of GM and Isuzu which marketed its own version called the “i-Series” starting from late 2005.

Assembly of the GMC Canyon and the Chevrolet Colorado was tasked to GM’s plants in Shreveport, Louisiana and in Rayong, Thailand. The pickup trucks have options for either manual or automatic transmissions, as well as rear-wheel or four-wheel drive trains. A 2.8L engine (2770 cc, 169 cu in) is standard to most of the early models.

The four-door Z71 GMC Canyon variants, however, sport a more powerful 3.5L (3460 cc, 211 cu in) L52 engine, and come equipped with a standard four-speed automatic transmission. In 2007, new engines went into the Canyon/Colorado pickups. These included the 2.9L (2923 cc, 178 cu in) for the LLV 14 package and the 3.7L (3653 cc, 223 cu in) for the L5R 15.

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Estimated MPG for GMC Canyon: 18 City/20 Hwy
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The GMC Envoy first appeared in the General Motors lineup in 1998 as a luxury variant of the sports utility vehicle (SUV) Jimmy which was eventually phased out in 2001. The Envoy reappeared in 2002 as a stand-alone SUV model.

It still utilized the platform from the Jimmy’s clone in the GM Chevrolet lineup, the Blazer. However, the GMC Envoy had different interior and exterior designs. In 2002, Motor Trend magazine named the Envoy its Sports/Utility of the Year. For 2002, the SUV sported a 275tq straight-6 Vortec 4200 engine with a 270 hp (201 kW) power rating which was boosted a bit to 275 hp (205 kW) in the 2003–2005 versions.

In 2006, the rating was further increased to 291 hp (217 kW) following a revamp of the SUV’s straight-6 Vortec 4200 powerhouse which has been cited as one of the world’s best engines from 2002–2005. Four-wheel disc brakes are standard to all GMC Envoy models.

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Estimated MPG for GMC Envoy: 15 City/18 Hwy
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The first GMC Jimmy rolled off the roads in 1970 when General Motors produced its own version of the K5 Blazer, the smallest full-size SUV (sports utility vehicle) in the GM Chevrolet lineup. Like the Blazer, the Jimmy is based on the short wheelbase trucks produced by General Motors. Buyers have the option for either a rear-wheel or four-wheel drive Jimmy model.

The early Jimmy models were convertible with removable tops but this feature was abandoned when the SUVs were redesigned in 1992. These new variants were offered in two- and four-door versions, either with rear-wheel or on-demand part-time four-wheel drive.

The permanently engaged four-wheel drive GMC Jimmy models were introduced in 1995. These SUVs have smaller variants, the mid-size S-15 Jimmy models which were so named because their platforms were based on GMC S-15 pick-up trucks. Unlike the early variants of their larger kin, the S-15 versions did not have convertible tops and were available only in two-door body styles.

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