01 Jul Time-Slaying Acura TL

Time-Slaying Acura TL goes from mom and dad’s luxury daily to racing champion.

By Aaron Gaghagen

What does a Bilstein engineer with more than 12 years experience designing suspension bits for nearly every kind of motorsports application use as his own race car? Mom and dad’s TL, of course. That’s exactly what Yawsport’s Bret Norgaard did anyways, he turned his parents’ sedan into the championship-winning, street-driven track car that it’s become. The Yawsport Acura TL has cleaned up on the west coast by dominating autocross and time-trial events. Even when pitted against competitors driving more popular cars with far more aftermarket support and development this “big, heavy” street cruiser has shown the true potential of the platform while also being one of the better looking cars out there.

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