i LOL'ed.
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you don't need a tail rotor if you've got an even number of rotors with hald of them rotating in the other dorection to the other half.
He's making playful comment on the fact that a chunk of the mechanicals (Engine, Gearbox) are Derived from the R8. however the majority of the car wasn't done by the Audi team but a group in norfolk.
No, a prototype can be closed - Group C was a prototype formula but legislated closed cars.
Only ever Competed in Can-Am, Therefore ineligible.
ah, the choices.
also No Sand Scorcher, no Avante, no 934 turbo that started the whole thing off - and that's just Tamiya...
Because the car as finally built was half a ton lighter than the two-ton car originally proposed and showed to bridgestone. they had to junk the V12 and the 4WD (and the ABS, and make the car 9 inches shorter) to make it light enough.
Easy - the Peugeot 106 Rallye and the 106 GTI. the Rallye was a proper purists' hot hatch, being a stripped-out special intended to sell mostly to rally privateers the 106 was more expensive, heavier, and not quite as good.
I remember reading an interview with Jim Randle (Jag's Chief engineer at the time) and he stated that the XJ220 lost the V12 (and the planned 4WD) for one reason - early 90s tyres just weren't up to it.
I Imagine the Use of old Lightnings and Canberras had more to do with cheapness. even for a relatively well-budgeted movie, it;s going ot be cheaper to use a cockpit section from an existing jet where someone else has gone to all the effort of making the canopy seal properly and filling the cockpit with interesting…
Systems like this already exist for PC (look up "TrackIR") and are very popular in flight sim circles. a small real-world head movement can be translated into a much wider movcement in the game world without feeling unnatural. takes a little gettihng used to, but everyone I know who's used one swears by it.
If the Brown one in the foreground is Kitman's car (and it probably is) then it's a Cortina Lotus (a later car than the Lotus Cortina). I remeber him writing an article about it in CAR a few years ago when he bought it. It was a long time ago, but I think the car actually was Colin Chapman's at one point.
"Public figures are routinely able to sue newspapers and win even when what's reported is true. In America, the truth is always a defense to libel..."
Theoretically you could do it a lot cheaper by making the tiles 5x5 instead of 9x9. that would reduce the number of bricks by just over half.
Yes, "Borrowing" tail-lights from another car has a pround and noble heritage in the British Specialist car industry. The "Wedge" TVRs used Rover SD1 tail-lights, inverted. The original Lotus Esprit also used SD1 lights (though the right way up). The Griffith used Ford Sierra Tal-light units (again, inverted). The…
@dusteruk: another part of the balance on the south atlantic air war was that much of the speed advantage of the mirages was nullified by the fact that the argentinian aircraft were operating at the extreme edge of their range, so had to be very sparing in use of afterburner if they wanted to get home.
@Khaddar: Indeed - though Debretts seems not to say how one should refer to a knight when only using the surname.
@Fast_Nel: nearly.