Car Thread

[webenda]

Mercedes-Benz F1 car.

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The Mercedes F1 has a small V6 engine (1.6 litre, 750–850 horsepower.)

I love the front bumper on the new Mercedes F1 Petronos car. (They call it a "wing" but come on, birds have wings, automobiles have bumpers.) The bumper is designed to change the shape of the airflow around the front tire. I think my truck needs a bumper like that. The truck has a bigger 3.7-liter V6 engine but less horsepower (300 horsepower.) It could use a little help with an airflow bumper.

Ford Petronos

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Clever photo-modifying, but the bumper seems uncomfortable there. Irrelevant.

[webenda]

If the bumper will make the truck go 233 mph like a formula1 car, who cares what it looks like?
Right now it accelerates strongly to 105 mph then just runs out of steam. It should run 170 mph at red line.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

If the bumper will make the truck go 233 mph like a formula1 car....

By driving wind up against that wide, tall flat front? I don't think so.

[webenda]

I will settle for 170 mph. The Volvo Iron Knight has a big flat front and manages to reach 105 mph in 21.29 seconds. Its record for the flying kilometer is 171.5 mph.

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Reference: http://www.goodyear.eu/corporate/de/new ... ear_185530

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And a beauty it is.

[Wolf]

Wow! Took me a second or two to realize that the picture was not of a race car
headed left with an odd, boxy amendment appended to its rear, but was, rather,
a truck tractor headed right.

It's sleek, but can it haul as well as fly (down the road)?

[webenda]

No hauling, it is purpose built for speed. More information:=> https://youtu.be/tvo9A2BLObA

[healey36]

Just in time for Christmas:



Seemed like all my friends were driving Pinto's back in the early 1970's. Except for that nylon sprocket on the cam-shaft they seemed pretty bullet-proof. Then they rolled out the exploding fuel-tank stories and it was game-over. Must have been true because you sure don't see many of them at the vintage car shows .

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

My memory of Pintos is that they were shunned. I never knew one family that had one. In fact, even teenagers didn't want to be seen in one, and nobody appeared on campus - not even on move-into-the-dorm first-day. But. Maybe that's just me.

[Mitch]

Even though I was born 'n bred in Chrysler products, I had a '79 Pinto for about a year and a half. Great little car; 2.8L V6, automatic C3 tranny, and air conditioning. My daughter smashed it!

Murph, coulda been worse. Coulda been an AMC Pacer!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Even though I was born 'n bred in Chrysler products, I had a '79 Pinto for about a year and a half. Great little car; 2.8L V6, automatic C3 tranny, and air conditioning. My daughter smashed it!

Murph, coulda been worse. Coulda been an AMC Pacer!

Good point! I always thought the Pintos looked useful, though. But those Pacers, man, they looked a bit overweight and somehow got made fun of right away, though I'm not sure why. I guess, in a way, those two cars were forerunners for the popular SUVs of today? The "hatch-back"feature (if that's what it is called) on my ML sure is handy. It has kept me from going back to having a Beemer 5-series, once again, which I think was my favorite car ever. It felt like quality through and through, and I really liked its lines (2004) and the way it held the road, esp. on exit ramps off interstates. when I found myself going too fast.

The Benz GLK got me into the type, which I came to love immediately, esp. considering traveling around for Layout Refinements and tasks for our church. So, when our salesman suggested I look at the ML, I was sold immediately and moved up in size. The GL seems a bit too much for me, though. So, I'm satisfied where I am parked.

[Tom Dempsey]

My Grandmother bought two Pinto's brand new, liked them so much that my Grandfather finally relented and sold his 1963 Galaxie 500 hardtop and purchased one for himself to haul his golf clubs in. Never could quite forgive him that, but, he liked it and it was the last car he drove. They made great donor cars for late thirties fords that needed a little updating under the skin. Especially with a Mustang II front end that little four cylinder power train really made a '34 ford a lively street unit that could still transport four.

[John Webster]

I'm thinking that hot rods would look a lot better if some major auto company made DOHC straight eights that could then be acquired from junk yards.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Forgive me, but, the impression I first had of that li'l red gem was that it went overboard on the curvaceousness. Is that much curve-into-the-wind shaping really necessary, for any reason, especially for such needs as to go quicker from 0 to 60? Or to go 60 instead of 50, considering the typical highway and streets most of us travel daily? Of course, I realize looking good is a top priority,there, but does that really look good or just odd and attention grabbing? It's all subjective, of course, but my reaction, even after further pondering, is that the whole effort looks forced and trying-too-hard to be adorable.