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[jammiedodger26]

Apparently the Lambo Miura was designed to look like a profile of an aircraft wing!

This made it look great and very aerodynamic....however when you get over 70mph it starts to take off!!

[techno-steve]

hitler promised everyone who joined his army a brand new vw beatle. and then actually he dint give out even 1

[Dan]

Lamborghini first started out by designing and building Tractors.
He then Challenged the top sports car makers, Porche etc etc that he could make, as good if not better, sports cars...

And heyho, we now know Lamborghini more for his cars, than we do his tractors.

Actually Ferruccio Lamborghini started producing his own cars after he took his Ferrari 250 back to the factory to complain about the clutch and they laughed him out of the door. Enzo Ferrari said something like 'the fault lies with the driver, go back to your tractors you silly little man' and he got a bit angry. So he took the car back to his own factory and stripped the gearbox, realised he could make a better one and put together a group to design his first car the next week. This was called the GTV and was released the next year as the 350GT. These were GT cars and his initial aim was to build GTs better than Ferrari did, they didn't start making sports cars until the Miura. They still make tractors too by the way, and marine diesel engines.

Ford CVH stands for central valve hemisphere as the valves are at 45 degree angles and its a semi circlular shape the cylinder head design ment it met exhaust emmisions without a cat but was made to fit one due to law !!

CVH stands for Compund Valve-angle Hemispherical. Ford never successfully created a lean burn head as they intended. The more they worked on it the more they realised that the ideal lean burn shape was already patented by Harry Weslake (who can imagine where that type of combustion chamber might actually be used? ). If the car produced the required levels of emissions without a cat it would not need one. There is no law in Britain requiring a car to run a catalyst, there is only an emissions requirement.

Speaking of the Miura, it's got a transverse V12...an idea they niked from the mini..

Not really, Mini was not the first car with a transverse mounted engine.

hitler promised everyone who joined his army a brand new vw beatle. and then actually he dint give out even 1

This is a commonly believed myth.

the audi quattro was the first 4wheel drive CAR

I know this has already been corrected but I believe the first 4 wheel drive road car (as in not a vehicle designed for off road use or the military) was the Jensen FF of 196...5 ish?. Also the Audi Quattro was only the first 4 wheel drive rally car in the FIA world rally series because it just happened to be introduced in the year the FIA changed the rules to allow 4 wheel drive, which was previously banned. There was a time before the insideous controlling presence of the FIA in rallying though and BMC were developing the Twini Cooper specifically to use as a 4 wheel drive rally car when they started to loose dominance in the sport in the late '60s. Unfortunately the car was not homoligated (they didn't have the guts to sell it to the public) and so couldn't be entered in the rally but it was developed as a rally car.

[Ethel]

Austin A40 first production hatchback
Dolomite 16valver... Princess wipers... Metro asymmetric rear seat...Maestro electronics... Clubby printed circuits.... K Series... Austin 7 & Mini just about everything else - how did the Brit motor industry lose its way so badly?

[Burnard]

if this is rong im going to look stupid.

the mini designer was the first mini to have a vainty mirror on the drivers side as standerd.

[Git]

Speaking of the Miura, it's got a transverse V12...an idea they niked from the mini..

Not really, Mini was not the first car with a transverse mounted engine.

Quote from Wikipeidia again..
Taking a cue from the Mini, Lamborghini formed the engine and gearbox in one casting and they shared common lubrication until the last 96 SVs, which used a limited slip differential requiring appropriate oil.

[Dan]

It's the common crank and transmission case, common lubrication setup they are referring to when they say that, not the arrangement. I think the first transversely mounted engine was in a Renault. Renault invented lots of things.

Although I must admit I didn't know there were any other engines in the world that shared oil and space with their gearbox!

[RsSpyder]

The Porsche Carrera GT's wheels are made of Magnesium, and the car was originally designed to compete at Le Mans, but due to regulation changes it ended up becoming a production road car.

[MuppetDonkey]

Enzo and Dino are two cars Named after people but Mercedes itself is named after the original designers daughter.

The least inspiring car 'name' must be TVR - short for Trevor

[Git]

Enzo and Dino are two cars Named after people but Mercedes itself is named after the original designers daughter.

The least inspiring car 'name' must be TVR - short for Trevor

Dino was Enzos son

[minimib]

Apparently the Lambo Miura was designed to look like a profile of an aircraft wing!

This made it look great and very aerodynamic....however when you get over 70mph it starts to take off!!

was it not ment to look lyk a bull with the doors opens like the horns ???? pretty sure that true lol

and MG stands for Morris Group it was more there sport car range

and cant mind what car it is some sort of aston martin lagonda uses the same rear lights as a morris marina lol i think

[scrog]

the 1100 mini special is the only mini fitted with a cigarette lighter

[Bungle]

mine has

[captainjack15]

the 1100 mini special is the only mini fitted with a cigarette lighter

As standard.

[Dan]

The Porsche Carrera GT's wheels are made of Magnesium

Not unusual for race or rally wheels to be made of magnesium alloy, proper Minilites are magnesium.

was it not ment to look lyk a bull with the doors opens like the horns ???? pretty sure that true

It is indeed.

and MG stands for Morris Group it was more there sport car range

It doesn't. It supposedly stands for Morris Garages and was originally a seperate company based out of a small independant Morris garage in Abingdon who built new bodies for Morris chassis and tuned the cars for better performance.