MisterH Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 25 minutes ago, chaseracer said: Tell me that's not just a re-panelled GLE 'coupé'... That's not just a re-panelled GLE 'coupé' Remspoor, chaseracer and 17-Coffees 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 EYETHANGYOO 😄 MisterH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterH Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 1 hour ago, chaseracer said: EYETHANGYOO 😄 chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Anyhoo; back on topic: https://blog.consumerguide.com/forgotten-concept-porsche-c88/ carburettor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted November 2, 2021 Share Posted November 2, 2021 20 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said: Anyhoo; back on topic: https://blog.consumerguide.com/forgotten-concept-porsche-c88/ I thought the plate said EGG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Further proof that we ran out of car names in 1990, the Skoda Enyaq adw1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 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? 🤔 Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tul66 Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 5 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said: Enya? Isn't she a singer? 🤔 Not so's you'd notice.🙂 Leyland Worldmaster, anonymous user, Remspoor and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 9 hours ago, Leyland Worldmaster said: Enya? Isn't she a singer? 🤔 Orinoco Flows Knows. Leyland Worldmaster and Asimo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomiST Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Enya Q, Suzi's sister. carburettor and Leyland Worldmaster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 Citroën DS 19 Coupé GT Bossaert: RayMK, lesapandre, adw1977 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspiral_Mondays Posted November 3, 2021 Share Posted November 3, 2021 39 minutes ago, Austat said: Citroën DS 19 Coupé GT Bossaert: Wow. I think I‘ve just found my perfect car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 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". MisterH, Remspoor, Bamboocarman and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 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 lesapandre, egg, Yoss and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 The last one looks most likely, but aren't they smaller than the cube? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 bunglebus and Alusilber 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Ha! Was not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leyland Worldmaster Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 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! 😎😎😎 Remspoor and MisterH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 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. garethj, LightBulbFun, Inspiral_Mondays and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 1968 Lambretta Mink Prototype: Remspoor, LightBulbFun, face and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 What's body filler got to do with it? Mally, carburettor, cort1977 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STUNO Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Very rare, don't ever expect to see another. 1226 Victoria St - Google Maps Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 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. Supernaut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 It was more that U235 is a rubbish heat source unless it's in a fission reactor and gone critical. cort1977 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madman Of The People Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 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. LightBulbFun, cort1977 and lesapandre 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteersWithThrottle Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 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! chodweaver and cort1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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