Cars you didn't know existed until very recently.

[chaseracer]

EYETHANGYOO 😄

[MisterH]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

EYETHANGYOO 😄

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

On 10/31/2021 at 2:42 PM, chaseracer said:

Tell me that's not just a re-panelled GLE 'coupé'...

In my eyes, that Ford Kuga looks like a type of Aston Martin Crossover type thingy:

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Anyhoo; back on topic:

https://blog.consumerguide.com/forgotten-concept-porsche-c88/

[Remspoor]

20 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Anyhoo; back on topic:

https://blog.consumerguide.com/forgotten-concept-porsche-c88/

I thought the plate said EGG

[bunglebus]

Further proof that we ran out of car names in 1990, the Skoda Enyaq

[Leyland Worldmaster]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Further proof that we ran out of car names in 1990, the Skoda Enyaq

Enya? Isn't she a singer? 🤔 

[tul66]

5 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Enya? Isn't she a singer? 🤔 

Not so's you'd notice.🙂

[Remspoor]

9 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

Enya? Isn't she a singer? 🤔 

Orinoco Flows Knows.

[nomiST]

Enya Q, Suzi's sister.

[Austat]

Citroën DS 19 Coupé GT Bossaert:

[Inspiral_Mondays]

39 minutes ago, Austat said:

Citroën DS 19 Coupé GT Bossaert:

Wow. I think I‘ve just found my perfect car.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 11/3/2021 at 7:10 AM, bunglebus said:

Further proof that we ran out of car names in 1990, the Skoda Enyaq

Maybe "Enyaq" is one of the many words that the Eskimos use for "shite".

[High Jetter]

I saw what I thought was a Nissan Cube in London the other day, but it had Suzuki badging. Can't seem to find it online.

[somewhatfoolish]

Alto Lapin? That's quite square.

Or a Hustler?

Bit of a rabbit hole with JDM stuff as they have so many submodels; also the XBee

And the Wagon R Smile

[High Jetter]

The last one looks most likely, but aren't they smaller than the cube?

[somewhatfoolish]

[High Jetter]

Ha! Was not!

[Remspoor]

The Aurus, a Bentley/Rolls copy from Russia.

At the point they talk about the infighting between designers and engineers and ending up with a ugly hippo. I thought about the Allegro.🙄.

 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

19 hours ago, Remspoor said:

The Aurus, a Bentley/Rolls copy from Russia.

At the point they talk about the infighting between designers and engineers and ending up with a ugly hippo. I thought about the Allegro.🙄.

 

It looks like a Chrysler 300C that has got it on with a RR Ghost. 

Still admire them for starting from scratch though. 

Also, the blunt honesty is refreshing. No flowery language used to describe the design and development. 

Thank foe sharing! 😎😎😎

[cort1977]

Today I learned that in the eighties NASA spent a lot of time developing a Chevrolet Celebrity powered by a Stirling engine.   Despite a very detailed paper on the vehicle there isn't actually a picture of it so here's a similar one.  Yes that is essentially a mk 2 Cavalier. 

They got it to be marginally quicker and fuel economy went from 27 to 41mpg.  It must have been a strange thing to drive though and require a period of warming up before it could move.

 19880002196.pdf (nasa.gov)

Apparently Stirling engines are still under consideration by NASA for deep space missions using Uranium-235 as a heat source.

[Austat]

1968 Lambretta Mink Prototype:

 

[somewhatfoolish]

2 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Apparently Stirling engines are still under consideration by NASA for deep space missions using Uranium-235 as a heat source.

Pu238 would make more sense?

[bunglebus]

What's body filler got to do with it?

[STUNO]

Very rare, don't ever expect to see another.

1226 Victoria St - Google Maps

[cort1977]

10 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Pu238 would make more sense?

Yes, but needs much more shielding.  

The Americans have experimented with Pu238 in the past, there were various listening stations in the Arctic powered by these sources and they actually lost at least one high in the Himalayas trying to listen in on Chinese nuclear tests.  That Time The CIA Lost A Nuclear Device On An Indian Mountain | by Erik Brown | Lessons from History | Medium

Apologies for thread drift.

[somewhatfoolish]

It was more that U235 is a rubbish heat source unless it's in a fission reactor and gone critical.

[Madman Of The People]

On 11/7/2021 at 4:28 PM, cort1977 said:

Today I learned that in the eighties NASA spent a lot of time developing a Chevrolet Celebrity powered by a Stirling engine.   Despite a very detailed paper on the vehicle there isn't actually a picture of it so here's a similar one.  Yes that is essentially a mk 2 Cavalier. 

They got it to be marginally quicker and fuel economy went from 27 to 41mpg.  It must have been a strange thing to drive though and require a period of warming up before it could move.

 19880002196.pdf (nasa.gov)

Apparently Stirling engines are still under consideration by NASA for deep space missions using Uranium-235 as a heat source.

 

The old joke we used to tell about the Chevrolet Celebrity was how no celebrity would ever be caught dead driving one!

However, I do have to make one small correction.  The Celebrity wasn't a Mk 2 Cavalier.  Chevrolet had it's own Cavalier which, like the Vauxhall of the same name, was built on GM's "J" platform.  The Celebrity was built on the "A" platform which was little more than the "X" platform (Chevrolet Citation) with longer front and rear overhangs.  X and A cars even shared the same 104.9 inch wheelbase.  The smaller J-body Cavalier rode on a 101.2 inch wheelbase and was unrelated to the X and A cars.

 

[SteersWithThrottle]

On 11/8/2021 at 3:14 PM, somewhatfoolish said:

It was more that U235 is a rubbish heat source unless it's in a fission reactor and gone critical.

The shielding issue comes about when you consider what you'd like to have versus what you can actually achieve; weight is critical for anything you want to put in space, and all the extra shielding (mostly for the electronics) makes a [sup]238[/sup]Pu power unit far heavier than a [sup]235[/sup]U one.

After that you're left with engineering your piece of kit to use the amount of power you [i]can[/i] provide...

 

EDIT: Lack of BBcode support is really annoying here!

[cort1977]

6 hours ago, Madman Of The People said:

 

The old joke we used to tell about the Chevrolet Celebrity was how no celebrity would ever be caught dead driving one!

However, I do have to make one small correction.  The Celebrity wasn't a Mk 2 Cavalier.  Chevrolet had it's own Cavalier which, like the Vauxhall of the same name, was built on GM's "J" platform.  The Celebrity was built on the "A" platform which was little more than the "X" platform (Chevrolet Citation) with longer front and rear overhangs.  X and A cars even shared the same 104.9 inch wheelbase.  The smaller J-body Cavalier rode on a 101.2 inch wheelbase and was unrelated to the X and A cars.

 

You're right, it's so easy to get your mediocre and forgotten American cars from 40 years ago mixed up.

Which means GM had two slightly different FWD platforms introduced in the same year - madness.  Somehow, they still made money.