So you learned to write, but not to read? Impressive.
PureSilver
PureSilver
Yep, I've always wanted to try that. Like Not Ze Stig says below, it's a double-dash vehicle (so that wheel isn't necessarily connected to anything) but damn, I'd love to see it done.
No landing gear at all means dropping onto the runway at, or slightly above, stall speed. That's much faster than the speed the plane can be safely decelerated to with only two-thirds of its landing gear deployed, and when you're going to belly an aircraft, the slower the better. When the aircraft is on the runway you…
Couldn't agree more. Thank Christ that there really aren't many cities (at least not outside the Third World) that are as comprehensively fucked as Detroit. I'm from London, one of the oldest and most successful cities in the world - but also a city that has repeatedly been burned, bulldozed and bombed to the ground,…
Er - why couldn't they be? Der Beetle was originally designed as a 34hp volkswagen in the Thirties, not as a 450bhp dune buggy, and is consequently lacking in strength and margins of safety if that's what you want to use it as. A fully integrated spaceframe chassis would be attractive and effective at improving almost…
Oh man, I want a tube-framed twin-turbo-transplanted M64/60S Baja Bug so damn much.
"you're never more than one injudicious stab of the throttle away from picking weeds out of your teeth."
The British police make a point of describing crashes as 'incidents' rather than 'accidents', because 'accident' implies it's nobody's fault. This is definitely not an accident; it might be both parties' fault rather than just one's, but nevertheless it's not an accident.
Nitrogen is a superior gas for pressurising tires because it has a low coefficient of thermal expansion, so your tire is always at the right pressure (increasing efficiency, grip etcetera) not drifting between too high and too low as it heats and cools.
Looks like a DB3S to me.
The 'Fork-Tailed Doctor Killer' is such a great nickname...
-Dom calls a Jensen Interceptor: "American Muscle".
I couldn't agree more. Having driven a Series II Roadster with the 4.2L V12 the idea of swapping in an American V8 because you don't have the money or the knowhow to maintain the original makes my fists itch. If you can't afford to drive the car, pack it in grease until you can, or sell it to someone that will take…
But your definition excludes the Lamborghini Countach (even in 25th Anniversary form, 4.9s 0-62 and 183mph vmax), and the Diablo (202mph, but 4.5s 0-62) - not to mention the 288GTO, the Testarossa, the 959 and the EB110. And, of course, the Evora - 0-60 in 4.9s and vmax of 162mph!
I couldn't agree more. What defines a supercar? Outlandish price, too-much-for-the-road performance, zero practicality, insane styling and preferably dangerous handling. The Evora is affordable, practical, good looking and extremely competent on the road. It's a sports car, not a supercar.
What? The Ultima is a kit-car homage to Group C and hasn't been seriously developed as a product platform in years; they like it the way it is and that's good for them, but it's built by a company that only makes one car. The Radical is built by a company that has contested the 24 Heures du Mans five times and held…
I agree. Compared to the Clio V6 this is very expensive (the 3-litre 255bhp Renault started at sub-£30k):
It's definitely electrical; you can hear the arcing very distinctly in the second burst. The Murcié's battery is in the nose (where the fire starts) ahead of the driver's side wheel, and carbon fibre (which the Murcié is largely composed of) is highly electrically conductive if exposed by broken resin (e.g., in a…
It's England - almost certainly all the cars except the imported Camaro will be RHD. Looks to me like they cut the pillars out of the Golf and removed both doors on that side so they could get to the occupant(s) as well as decapitating the BMW. Fire and rescue had a field day with the Sawzalls! I would guess that…