Wait a minute. Did you say the 2008 Acura TL? Oyunlaer Not the brand new 2009 TL with SH-AWD and enough Oyunlaer styling affectations to embarrass the crowd at a SoHo gallery opening.

That's right, this review is unabashedly retro Oyunlaer in that we are covering a car that is Oyunlaer limping heroically into the horizon as the sun sets. The TL has undoubtedly been Acura's saviour, turning a Oyunlaer brand adored among the younger set for its Integra and then RSX sports coupes into a mainstream luxury brand, with the TL outselling anything else in its segment (midsize luxury), with over 75,000 units moved in Oyunlaer 2005, appealing to the luxury hungry but still value-conscious North American sale.

2008 Acura TL. 2008 Acura TL.

These days, a lot more people might be moving over the value side of that fence, and the 2008 TL has never presented a better case. Sure, it might ride on an aging platform and its superiority was cutting edge three years ago (that's downright paleolithic) and perhaps seeming as outdated as Moore's Oyunlaer Law. But you know what, you can live without radar cruise control and self parking, and when you get a car that is this good, you'll learn to appreciate the 'spartan' accommodations.

I can't help it, but every time somebody asks me what I think of this car, the word that pops into my head is "nice." No affectations, no emphasis, just a rather straightforward "nice." The Acura TL is not the freshest daisy in the garden, and even the newly introduced TSX outshines it in terms of freshness, although for my money the TSX lost a lot of its charm in its recent metamorphosis, though perhaps not as much as the TL does as it moves into 2009. However, this review is not about the TSX, which has already been covered in these (web) pages, or the 2009 TL - it is Oyunlaer about the 2008 TL, the greybeard in Acura showrooms these days.