A test of Car wits. . . Maybe just useless info we have that will never use elsewhere

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It never went into production some would say. Actually, A lot of the features from the CERV III went into a Camaro concept. The Last generation of Camaros to be exact. At the time the 5th gen. Corvettes were to be coming out. Although it was a number of years after the CERV III concept. It took a more conservative styling and driveline path. as quoted off http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1701/cerviii.htm . ok Wana B since you answered it 2/3s give it a go :D
 
Too my knowledge, nowadays, most police cars are rear Wheel drive. I know of a few front wheel drive race cars too. Try the Real Time Racing Integra, it competes in the Speedvision World Challenge. http://www.world-challenge.com/ . My thought as of why most racers use a rear wheel drive car, guessing would be the control of the car in the corners. Although, personally speaking I would prefer a Mid engine mount, rear wheel drive.

Also to add to the fact, a Tranverse mounted engine leaves very little room to work with in the pits.
 
well i really don't think anyone else is ganna get any closer so here it is.
most cop cars and race cars are rear wheel drive because people seem to bron with rear wheel driving instincts. they know to brake entering and accel out so that makes them a little easier to drive and if they loose control they pretty much know what to do. back off the gas and counter steer. in most cases.
well go take your shot 13b. you where very close.
 
Originally posted by miata13B
Close, but that only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
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How bout '58? :D

My question: What did Simon Templar drive in the tv series "The Saint" and what was the engine capacity?
 
Originally posted by Mike Rotch
How bout '58? :D

My question: What did Simon Templar drive in the tv series "The Saint" and what was the engine capacity?
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A/ He drove a Volvo P-1800 with a wild stab in the dark I would guess the engine capacity was 1800cc

Q/ What do the letters 'TVR' stand for?
 
Originally posted by chaser_fan
A/ He drove a Volvo P-1800 with a wild stab in the dark I would guess the engine capacity was 1800cc

Q/ What do the letters 'TVR' stand for?
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got me stumped but :drool:
 
Sorry to go off-topic sorta...the RoadPacer was actually a Holden badged as a Mazda and had a rotary. It's really ownly a Mazda due to the rotary, and the name. It's barely Japanese...
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Yeah, I was about to say that looks like a Kingswood. :odd:
 
Originally posted by miniMADness
TeVoR? is the first name of the designer
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tevor? i thought it was tRevor, the guy who started the company ? :odd:

and another correction to the rear wheel drive thing, you can drive MUCH faster with a rear wheel drive car. in a straight line they will more or less be equal but when going round a corner, the front wheels need a great deal of their grip to actually make the cornering maneover (try pushing a car with your hands and think what ur trainers are doing). if you take a corner quickly, you may use all the grip the tyres have, so when you want to lay down the power and accelerate, the front wheels just slip and you head off into the trees. also known as understeer.

with a rear wheel drive car, even if your front tyres are running at 90% of their grip limit because of cornering, ur back tyres could be using about 5% so they can use 95% of their power to push u forward and therefore faster through corners.

that's why all racecars are rear wheel drive. police try to buy rear wheel drive cars for that same reason but not all of them ARE FR. the police in the UK uses some fords which are FF, but for high speed they use vauxhall (opel) omegas, and bmw 5 series, both of which are FR

and i don't really have a question but i'll post a cryptic one, why do porsche use turbo's instead of superchargers or better yet large displacement NA engines? is it simply a question of space?
 
Originally posted by Nightmage82
tevor? i thought it was tRevor, the guy who started the company ?

and another correction to the rear wheel drive thing, you can drive MUCH faster with a rear wheel drive car. in a straight line they will more or less be equal but when going round a corner, the front wheels need a great deal of their grip to actually make the cornering maneover (try pushing a car with your hands and think what ur trainers are doing). if you take a corner quickly, you may use all the grip the tyres have, so when you want to lay down the power and accelerate, the front wheels just slip and you head off into the trees. also known as understeer.

with a rear wheel drive car, even if your front tyres are running at 90% of their grip limit because of cornering, ur back tyres could be using about 5% so they can use 95% of their power to push u forward and therefore faster through corners.

that's why all racecars are rear wheel drive. police try to buy rear wheel drive cars for that same reason but not all of them ARE FR. the police in the UK uses some fords which are FF, but for high speed they use vauxhall (opel) omegas, and bmw 5 series, both of which are FR

and i don't really have a question but i'll post a cryptic one, why do porsche use turbo's instead of superchargers or better yet large displacement NA engines? is it simply a question of space?
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Hmm...ill give it a crack. The main reason is probably space. In order to keep the dimensions of the interior and exterior roughly the same throughout the model, and keep it RR, more displacement is not really an option. Some conversion houses bore the cylinders out to 4.0 liters, but that is rare. Besides, there is no need for higher displacement. With current engines, porsche still shows 8 liter vipers the way forward in performance. Sportec and Gemballa can get 450 and more kw out the 3.6l flat 6 engine. Coupled with 0-60mph in 3.3secs and 0-100mph in 8-9secs, who needs more displacement? P'raps the yanks need to learn something in this area ;)

As for turbo, it probably boils down to speciality. They have used turbos for 30 years, so why switch to supercharging. Just like AMG wont use turbos.

Q: An easy one, which model porsche has won the dakar rally?
 
Originally posted by Mike Rotch
Hmm...ill give it a crack. The main reason is probably space. In order to keep the dimensions of the interior and exterior roughly the same throughout the model, and keep it RR, more displacement is not really an option. Some conversion houses bore the cylinders out to 4.0 liters, but that is rare. Besides, there is no need for higher displacement. With current engines, porsche still shows 8 liter vipers the way forward in performance. Sportec and Gemballa can get 450 and more kw out the 3.6l flat 6 engine. Coupled with 0-60mph in 3.3secs and 0-100mph in 8-9secs, who needs more displacement? P'raps the yanks need to learn something in this area ;)

As for turbo, it probably boils down to speciality. They have used turbos for 30 years, so why switch to supercharging. Just like AMG wont use turbos.

Q: An easy one, which model porsche has won the dakar rally?
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Wasn't that a heavily modified 959?
 
Originally posted by Nightmage82

and another correction to the rear wheel drive thing, you can drive MUCH faster with a rear wheel drive car. in a straight line they will more or less be equal but when going round a corner, the front wheels need a great deal of their grip to actually make the cornering maneover (try pushing a car with your hands and think what ur trainers are doing). if you take a corner quickly, you may use all the grip the tyres have, so when you want to lay down the power and accelerate, the front wheels just slip and you head off into the trees. also known as understeer.

with a rear wheel drive car, even if your front tyres are running at 90% of their grip limit because of cornering, ur back tyres could be using about 5% so they can use 95% of their power to push u forward and therefore faster through corners.

that's why all racecars are rear wheel drive. police try to buy rear wheel drive cars for that same reason but not all of them ARE FR. the police in the UK uses some fords which are FF, but for high speed they use vauxhall (opel) omegas, and bmw 5 series, both of which are FR
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Actually, I'd like to add something to this RWD v. AWD v. FWD side-thread.

The one big drawback of a FWD performance car is its inability to maintain traction under large amounts of power. We all know how important it is to lay down power at corner exit to gather speed for the next straight. When RWD cars go full throttle, weight transfers to the rear, thus increasing traction on the drive wheels. When FWD cars go full throttle, weight transfers to the rear, thus taking traction AWAY from the drive wheels.

While there are suspension adjustments you can make to try and compensate for this, there is only so much you can do. The problem gets worse as power increases.

This is why FWD race cars like the aforementioned Speed World Challenge cars mostly participate in low hp series, because as hp increases, FWD cars have more and more of a handicap. I read somewhere that most race car designers feel 350-400 hp is the limit of where FWD can still be competative with RWD cars.

This is also why truly fast race cars (F1, IndyCars, Champ cars, LMP/GTP cars, not to mention Top Fuel and Pro Stock dragsters, etc.) are all RWD.


///M-Spec
 
Originally posted by Mike Rotch
;) :tick: and your question?
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Mercedes built a special edition of their then mainstream car, the 190E. Agressive looking, and with a 2.5L engine in it, the engine was not built by Mercedes. It was built by another company, whose name was nowhere to be found on the vehicle. Who was that manufacturer?
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Mercedes built a special edition of their then mainstream car, the 190E. Agressive looking, and with a 2.5L engine in it, the engine was not built by Mercedes. It was built by another company, whose name was nowhere to be found on the vehicle. Who was that manufacturer?
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I'll take a shot at this...


Cosworth?


///M-Spec
 
Originally posted by GilesGuthrie
Mercedes built a special edition of their then mainstream car, the 190E. Agressive looking, and with a 2.5L engine in it, the engine was not built by Mercedes. It was built by another company, whose name was nowhere to be found on the vehicle. Who was that manufacturer?
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you must be talking about the EVO 1 And EVO 2 versions right?
 
I have a question for you guys:

What did the 'Lotec' company do to the 2.3 16valve engine in the 190E in terms of tuning? It was something with turbo.
 
Originally posted by Merc-freak
I have a question for you guys:

What did the 'Lotec' company do to the 2.3 16valve engine in the 190E in terms of tuning?
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Didn't they turbocharged it and gave it 300 hp?
 

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