Random Car Facts

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

Now, I did read this somewhere, but I am unsure of its absolute veracity;

Internal combustion engines as used in automobiles run at just 15% average efficiency.

I thought this was common knowledge, at least from the perspective that most physics classes here in the U.S. teach it. Still interesting for those who don't know though.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

The ABS system was first developed in 1929 for aircraft use by Gabriel Voisin; a French Car and Aircraft pioneer.
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Anti-lock_braking_system.html

 

[RDF97]

Ferrari names its cars logically. For example the 612 has 6.0L engine with 12 cylinders. The 355 was referred to the fact the it had a 3.5L engine and 5 valves per cylinder.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

And Mondiale? Testarossa?

 

[Bopop4]

Ferrari names its cars logically. For example the 612 has 6.0L engine with 12 cylinders. The 355 was referred to the fact the it had a 3.5L engine and 5 valves per cylinder.

Ferrari is constantly changing how they name cars.

The 360/430550/575 was the displacement. (3.6/4.3/5.5/5.75L)

The 365 was named based on individual cylinder displacement.

The F40/F50 were anniversary dates.

 

[GTV0819]

So you're not gonna give me some insight as to what you may have meant, are you?

God.

It's already obvious to what I have said. Don't get this too complicated.

 

[Doog]

God.

It's already obvious to what I have said. Don't get this too complicated.

So you're gonna belittle me for not understanding instead of explaining it to me?

Anyways, the battery in the R53 ('02-'06) Mini Cooper is found not under the hood like a normal car, but rather in the very back of the car.

 

[GTV0819]

So you're gonna belittle me for not understanding instead of explaining it to me?

Like I said, search it up in the internet and you'll see that I'm true.

On topic, the Golden Carriage that was used by the Dutch royal family was made by Spyker 115 years ago.

 

[Doog]

Like I said, search it up in the internet and you'll see that I'm true.

What, that "There are many Mary Anderson"? I guess that's true, unless I'm missing something (ie: the joke, the purpose of the post, the punchline). Guess it must be my fault for not understanding.

Mazda was the first manufacture to debut oscillating vents, found in the fifth generation 626, which if turned on would automatically move the air conditioning vents in a left to right motion to heat or cool the cabin more evenly. Lexus also used the feature ten years later in the LS430, and it is incorrectly thought that they were the first to implement such a system.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

I google searched "Mary Anderson" and the first 3 pages talk about the windshield wiper blade inventor one. Still don't get why he bothered saying something kinda obvious. Just to tell the guy to be specific?

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Staying on subject:
Florence Lawrence is the inventor of the mechanical turn signal and was also a silent-film star.

 

[GTV0819]

What, that "There are many Mary Anderson"? I guess that's true, unless I'm missing something (ie: the joke, the purpose of the post, the punchline). Guess it must be my fault for not understanding.

I searched it here.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

You'll see how many Mary Anderson are there once you type the name. Of course, they're all different and unrelated. And yes, it is your fault for not understanding. You did waste my time though.

What a shame.

 

[ND4SPD]

I searched it here.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

You'll see how many Mary Anderson are there once you type the name. Of course, they're all different and unrelated. And yes, it is your fault for not understanding. You did waste my time though.

What a shame.

Hey.

You dropped this.





Also. William Durant (GM Founder) liked a wallpaper he saw in a hotel in Paris and brought a piece of it back to Detroit with him. That's how we ended up with the Chevy bow tie!

 

[Doog]

You'll see how many Mary Anderson are there once you type the name. Of course, they're all different and unrelated. And yes, it is your fault for not understanding. You did waste my time though.

What a shame.

If this was such a waste of time for you, why did you keep responding with increasingly mean posts about why I should be ashamed of not understanding what you were getting at? Seems like you have plenty of time, am I wrong?

Also, GM's partnership with Subaru didn't just result in the infamous 9-2X, but also in one of the most lazy rebadges in recent history. It was Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge Neon levels of lazy. They didn't change a single thing other than the badge. It was known as the Chevrolet Forester and was sold in India.

 

[Slash]

I just puked.

 

[Bopop4]

And it was the best Chevy ever made.

 

[GTV0819]

Hey.

You dropped this.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/ao41.png/

*FART*

Whatever you would say...

If this was such a waste of time for you, why did you keep responding with increasingly mean posts about why I should be ashamed of not understanding what you were getting at? Seems like you have plenty of time, am I wrong?

I just wanted you to understand what I was saying or referring or pointing out because it seemed like you can't get over it.

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The world's first car to be fitted with 4WD was also made by Spyker.

 

[Slash]

And it was the best Chevy ever made.

 

[Badasp5.0]

Its the only chevy crossover I would own.

 

[Slash]

Trying to explain that it's a rebadge to someone around here would be pointless.

 

[RDF97]

So you're gonna belittle me for not understanding instead of explaining it to me?

Anyways, the battery in the R53 ('02-'06) Mini Cooper is found not under the hood like a normal car, but rather in the very back of the car.

Also, the Holden Commodore SS I believe has the battery in the back of the car. It has a massive Corvette 6.0L V8 that takes up the whole space under the hood and the battery is placed in between the side of the boot compartment because of that massive engine.

 

[Conbon14]

Also, the Holden Commodore SS I believe has the battery in the back of the car. It has a massive Corvette 6.0L V8 that takes up the whole space under the hood and the battery is placed in between the side of the boot compartment because of that massive engine.

So many cars have the battery in the back.

 

[RDF97]

So many cars have the battery in the back.

But the Commodore SS is one car I know for sure.

 

[RDF97]

Whoops ignore.

 

[Murcie_LP640]

Also, the Holden Commodore SS I believe has the battery in the back of the car. It has a massive Corvette 6.0L V8 that takes up the whole space under the hood and the battery is placed in between the side of the boot compartment because of that massive engine.

Also, the Eunos Roadster has the battery in the back of the car. It has a massive 1.6L inline-4 that takes up the whole space under the hood and the battery is placed in between the side of the boot compartment because of that massive engine.

 

[homeforsummer]

I know right, which idiot thought of putting an engine that big in the Miata? You can barely work on the damn thing...

 

[Cano]

Also, the Holden Commodore SS I believe has the battery in the back of the car. It has a massive Corvette 6.0L V8 that takes up the whole space under the hood and the battery is placed in between the side of the boot compartment because of that massive engine.

Loool massive. A LSx. Lol.

 

[motortrend]

A specific description of the Windshield Wiper inventor, she actually made the windshield wiper blade though. Not the wipers in general. Robert Kearns here invented the windsield wiper system:

he invented the intermittent system, cars Already had wipers by then, just not intermittent. There's a movie about it, it's pretty good.

 

[Murcie_LP640]

I know right, which idiot thought of putting an engine that big in the Miata? You can barely work on the damn thing...

Absolute crime against humanity, that is.

But seriously, the L98 is not a big engine. RDF, you know why they're called small-blocks, right?

 

[Cano]

I'll illustrate. This is a Commodore SS engine bay according to google images, with a LSx small block under all that stupid plastic cladding:

You can see how there's space left at the sides of the engine for... well, stuff. The breather box even more or less fits there.

Now here is a Holden with a Sonny Bryant 727 cubic inch aluminum big block that makes 1,200+ hp naturally aspirated.

That is massive.

 

[Dennisch]

Did you know that the LSx series are actually bigger than the 400ci BOP engine? I didn't, but I do now.