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Temat postu: But also...
Hello Guys!
A torrent of water passed under the bridge bet
Volkswagen concept r
A torrent of water passed under the bridge between
Volkswagen w12
the introduction of the Jaguar XK 120 show car at th
Volkswagen microbus
Earls Court Motor Show in 1946 and the Geneva Auto Show i
Volkswagen ecoracer
1961. For one thing, armed with the potent XK six-cylinder engin
Seat arosa
, Jaguar had gone sports car racing in a most successful
Seat ibiza
ay. With the aerodynamic D-Type, the marque had won the 24 Ho
Seat cordoba
rs of Le Mans, the world's most prestigious road race, three y
Seat leon
ars in a row. Jaguar had transitioned from offering the
public a
Seat toledo
ompetent sports car for the street based on sedan mech
Seat alhambra
nicals to building very specialized sports racing ma
Seat altea
hinery, and then, finding the cost of world-class co
Seat salsa
petition rising ever-higher, it had pulled back from
Seat tango
its racing commitments to concentrate again of cars
Ferrari 360
the public could buy. With its emphasis moving back tow
Ferrari 575
rd cars for the street, William Lyons, who would event
Ferrari enzo
ally be knighted for his efforts at Jaguar, looked to infu
Ferrari 456 gt
e his production cars with the flavor of his
sports raci
Ferrari f 430
g winners. One of the first attempts at this was the XK-SS, a
Ferrari 612
thinly disguised D-Type fitted with just enou
Ferrari gg 50
h equipment to make it street legal. Equipped with a 3.4-l
Ferrari F35
ter version of the XK engine essentially in race tune, it
Ferrari F 355
ffered 250 horsepower at 5750 rpm, a staggering figure, part
fiat palio
cularly in a car so light. Top speed was just short
fiat gingo
f 145 miles per hour. But on the other side of the coin,
fiat multipla
he XK-SS set one back $7,000 1957 dollars, while a fuel-
fiat ulysse
njected Corvette of the same year cost
little m
fiat idea
re than half as much. Further, the Corvette was far more civili
fiat panda
ed an automobile. By 1957 it had roll-up windo
fiat marea
s and a decent convertible top, while the XK-SS was
fiat croma
n most ways rudimentary. And because its engine was essentia
Fiat Argenta
ly ready for the track, it proved to be a handful
Fiat Tipo
o drive well on public roads. Just getting it moving fro
Fiat Uno
a standing start was often a frustrating experienc
Fiat Tempra
due to its lack of low-end torque, hair-trigger accelerator and
Fiat Brava
ecalcitrant clutch. Fewer than 20 of these li
Fiat Fiorino
tle dev
ils had been produced in the early part of 1957 when a fir
Fiat Ducato
raced through the Browns Lane factory where th
Fiat pininforina
y were built. Most of the tooling for the XK-SS
Fiat Coupe
as destroyed, and Lyons, sensing that this car wasn't
Lamborghini gallardo
what he really wanted anyway, decided not to resu
Lamborghini murcielago
e its production. Those few that remain in existence are rare a
Lamborghini diablo
d wonderfully quirky cars indeed. Instead of taking the XK-SS
Lamborghini lm
path, Lyons set his engineering team abuilding on two experime
Lamborghini concept s
tal cars that bore the "E" designation. The E1A was powered
by
Lamborghini cala
aguar's 2.4-liter six-cylinder engine, basically a de-st
Lancia ypsilon
oked 3.4 liter. For its chassis structure it
Lancia lybra
sed a monocoque tub with a space frame carrying the engine and fr
Lancia thesis
nt suspension components. The front suspension was, of cou
Lancia phedra
se, an independent design, but the E1A departed from the D-Type
Lancia granturismo
s model by using an independent rear suspension as well.
Lancia musa
For all its racing success, the D-Type had used a
Lancia fulvia
airly mundane live rear axle.) While the E1A was piling u
Lancia Dedra
clandestine test miles, Jaguar engineers we
re har
Lancia Kappa
a work on the E2A, which many in their number hoped would put
Lancia Delta
Jaguar back in the motor racing spotlight. With racing rath
Maserati 3200 gt
r than volume production in mind, the E2A was an exotic m
Maserati spyder
chine for its day. Its powerplant was an alloy-block
Maserati quattroporte
ersion of the XK engine equipped with a racing-typ
Maserati mc12
dry sump system and mechanical fuel injection. With
Maserati kubang
a displacement of just a hair under 3-liters, it offere
Maserati birdcage
293 horsepower at a motorcycle-like 6750 rpm. Its aluminum
Citroen c1
nvelope body
enclosing a monocoque tub and space frame, the
Citroen c2
E2A would have a somewhat belated and largely
Citroen c3
nsuccessful career on the racetrack. Though designed and built in
Citroen c4
1957 and 1958, it didn't find its way to Le Mans until 1960 and t
Citroen c5
en as part of Briggs Cunningham's multi-car effort that also in
Citroen c6
olved Corvettes, not with a rejuvenated Jaguar "
Citroen c7
actory team." Initially fast, it quit short of the halfwa
Citroen c8
mark in the race, and that was pretty much that as
Citroen Xsara Picasso
ar as international racing was concerned for th
Citroen Xsara
car. While it didn't enjoy the stunni
ng success of i
Citroen Berlingo
s D-Type predecessor, the E2A did set the stage for the p
Citroen C-Airdream
oduction E-Type. In fact, Jaguar's breathtaking
Citroen C-Airlounge
ew sports car would take most of its architectur
Citroen C-Crosser
from the E2A. Of course, with volume produc
Citroen C-Sportlounge
ion in mind, Lyons wisely chose steel as the primary
Peugeot 107
ody material. The basic tub was a monocoque of s
Peugeot 1007
eet steel to which were attached steel space frames for
Peugeot 206
ront suspension and engine and rear suspension. The f
Peugeot 307
ont suspension borrowed from Jagua
r racing practi
Peugeot 406
e with torsion bars as the springing medium, tu
Peugeot 607
ular shocks controlling rebound and forged control arms ha
Peugeot 807
dling wheel location. The rear suspension was an all-inde
Peugeot boxer
endent unit so elegantly designed that it became a model for
Peugeot partner
a wide variety of other suspensions that would follow it a
Peugeot 407
d even found its way under some of America's m
Peugeot 907
st beloved hot rods. In the scheme (a version similar to
Peugeot h2o
which found its way into the 1963 Corvette St
Peugeot hoggar
ngray) the differential was mounted to the chassis
sub-f
Peugeot sesame
ame with in-board disc brakes on each side and th
Peugeot 4002
n, through universal joints, halfshafts sent power to the rear
Peugeot rc
wheels. Ingeniously, the halfshafts themselves repres
Peugeot elixir
nted the upper control link while another, lower arm and a
Peugeot promethee
ink that controlled braking and acceleration forc
Renault twingo
s completed the simple but effective system. Springs a
Renault clio
d damping was not nearly so simple with dual coil-spring
Renault kangoo
tubular shock absorber units on each side, but they wer
Renault megane
at least compact and effect
ive. Instead of an exotic alloy rac
Renault laguna
ng engine, Lyons decided to stick with the 3.8-liter
Renault vel satis
K in-line six that was a direct descendent of th
Renault avantime
original XK engine in the XK 120. With fuel delivered
Renault scenic
y twin Weber carburetors, the iron block engine
Renault espace
elivered 265 horsepower at 5500 rpm and 260 pounds/feet of torq
Renault logan
e at 4000 rpm. Despite all this mechanical faldural the mos
Renault modus
striking part of the production E-Type was its abso
Renault talisman
utely lascivious body. Try as designers might to top it, the E-Ty
Renault zoe
e has the
most sensuous lines of any car ever produced, a
Renault fluence
d it is many critics' pick as the most beautiful
Renault wind
car ever made. Further description is unnecessary b
Renault egeus
cause the look of the E-Type has become such an automo
Renault ellypse
ive icon that at the mere mention of its name, the luscious p
Renault Trafic
cture comes to mind. The hit of the 1961 Geneva show
Renault Master
the E-Type was offered as both a convertible (
Renault Safrane
ith an available hardtop) and a coupe, and auto journ
Skoda fabia
lists immediately fell all over themselves praising the car. An
Skoda octavia
for good rea
son. The independent rear suspension provid
Skoda superb
d a huge advance in handling, particularly on bad roads, and
Skoda felicia
n street form the car had true 150 mile-per-hour poten
Skoda yeti
ial. It was also quick enough as a drag racer to find itself inc
Skoda roomster
uded in a Jan and Dean hit tune of the era, "D
Skoda tudor
adman's Curve." In fact, the E-Type was, arguabl
SAAB 9-2x
, the car of the decade. With looks, style, performance
SAAB 9-3
and handling, the Jaguar E-Type was everything a car s
SAAB 9-5
ould be. A lot of water passed through the mil
SAAB 9-7x
from the time the Dodge brothers built
engin
SAAB 9000
s for Henry Ford until the Dodge Viper peeked out from
SAAB 9-x
nder its wraps at the 1989 Detroit auto show. Over the c
Volvo s40
urse of that time the Dodge brothers split with
Volvo s60
Ford to start building cars of their own under th
Volvo v70
imaginative Dodge Brothers name; Dodge Brothers
Volvo c70
was acquired by Walter P. Chrysler as he built
Volvo s80
hrysler Corporation in the image of his former employer,
Volvo xc70
General Motors; and Dodge (sans Brothers) went from an
Volvo xc90
icon of performance during the halcyon years of the Sixti
Volvo v40
s to becoming largely irrelevant by the
late Eight
Volvo v50
es. K-cars and Omnis will do that, no matter how proud one
Volvo vcc
s history. A rapidly fading brand with a dreary image were
Volvo scc
hat faced Chrysler Corporation planners as they co
Volvo 3cc
sidered what they should do for the '89 Detroit show, and thei
Volvo acc
response -- a big, brutal two-seat sports car -- stood show att
Volvo ycc
ndees, including your author, on their collective ear. Who could
Buick Le Sabre
have expected such a thing from a nameplate that seemed to
Buick Park Avenue
be barely producing a pulse, lot less a vibe? But th
Cadillac Eldorado
Dodge Viper did emerge from the corpor
ate caul
Cadillac Seville
ron -- somehow -- and it proved there was still som
Cadillac STS
life in the old Dodge brand yet. The goal of what was ref
Cadillac CTS
rred to as "Team Viper" was a purpose-built performance vehicle.
Cadillac Escalade
verything else took a backseat to performance and,
Cadillac SRX
ecause of that, the Viper had no backseat at all.
Chery Sweet
ike the Shelby Cobra that inspired it, the vehicle was rough
Chery Amulet
crude and unsophisticated but, at the same time, brutal.
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