Random Car Facts
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Polyphony Digital designed the Lexus LFA's TFT Display.
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86mm is nearly equivalent to a 3.5" pipe. There's now way. I agree with @Dennisch here, but I would think a muffler would be bigger. 3.5" sounds more like a resonator. Even fire breathing monsterous V8's only use 3" at most usually. Standard is 2 1/4", which is just slightly larger than the 2" (53mm) that Dennisch pointed out above.
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I believe they mean the exhaust tip when they say it's 86mm. One moment... I'll measure it.
Using a dodgy ruler I found in an old pencil case I think the tips may be slightly bigger than 86mm.
As for the pipe, I got the diameter with a bit of paper...
Left my finger there at the crossover point...
Radius= Diameter/2
Diameter is a cm or 2 longer than my 15cm ruler so it may actually have an 86mm exhaust. I'd be damned
Using a dodgy ruler I found in an old pencil case I think the tips may be slightly bigger than 86mm.
As for the pipe, I got the diameter with a bit of paper...
Left my finger there at the crossover point...
Radius= Diameter/2
Diameter is a cm or 2 longer than my 15cm ruler so it may actually have an 86mm exhaust. I'd be damned
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I didn't say it needed nearly 3 1/2 inches to make 200bhp but it certainly seems to have it. It is a single pipe system that splits to two at the muffler, so it's no different to full length twins at 1 3/4 each.
I reckon it was just a Toyota workers nerdy idea that somehow made it on to the finished product. I think it's pretty cool actually.
I reckon it was just a Toyota workers nerdy idea that somehow made it on to the finished product. I think it's pretty cool actually.
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Just a random quote from Enzo Ferrari: "Jeep is America's only real sports car."
But, yeah...he's known for saying some really questionable things, like the infamous quote, "Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines."
But, yeah...he's known for saying some really questionable things, like the infamous quote, "Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines."
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^Huh, kinda ironic; a guy that started a car company that is known around the world for making amazing sports cars & supercars and he thinks of Jeeps being "sporty".
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Anyway, here's a fact. While the Ford Mustang II has been given the tag "pintostang" several times since people think it's based on the Pinto. The truth is that they don't share the same chassis nor platform at all. They're just plain nowhere near being the same car.
http://www.mustangii.net/questions.asp
This guy from Ford Racing says it aswell.
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Anyway, here's a fact. While the Ford Mustang II has been given the tag "pintostang" several times since people think it's based on the Pinto. The truth is that they don't share the same chassis nor platform at all. They're just plain nowhere near being the same car.
http://www.mustangii.net/questions.asp
This guy from Ford Racing says it aswell.
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I've been telling people this for years and no one ever believes me....it only shares something like 20% of it's parts and most of that is in the front suspension design which by the way is one of the most popular IFS designs in the muscle car world.
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People think it is because it shares a similar wheelbase and basic design but it's really it's own. The body lines don't match up all that well.
If you really wanted to get technical, look at the Maverick. Same body lines, just smoother.
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The thread is "random car facts." Not "revisionist history parroted around fan websites." The Mustang II was based on the Pinto platform, just as certainly as the original was based on the Falcon and the followup was based on the Fairmont. Very blatantly so, in fact, since they did less to alter the Pinto's hard points in turning it into a Mustang than they did with the original car or the Fox Body. And it did make use a huge amount of modified Pinto parts, which coincided with a mild redesign of the Pinto that made it so they could both utilize those modified parts from that point forward. The base engined was a bored out Pinto engine. The transmission was a strengthened version of the Pinto 4 speed. The rear suspension used elongated versions of the Pinto leaf springs. The front suspension might as well have been identical. The steering rack was shared between the two, but the Mustang offered power steering and wasn't hooked up quite the same. Even if only "10%" or "20%" of the parts were literally identical, that doesn't stop the fact that a whole hell of a lot of the rest of them were really damn similar.
And even if the parts commonality wasn't as identical as it was with the early Fox or early Falcon, an isolated front subframe and different body sheetmetal does not "completely different platform" make.
And even if the parts commonality wasn't as identical as it was with the early Fox or early Falcon, an isolated front subframe and different body sheetmetal does not "completely different platform" make.
What does the Maverick have to do with anything?
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So basically, I done goofed up. 
This gives me the opportunity to try my new reaction: *facepillow*
This gives me the opportunity to try my new reaction: *facepillow*
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The Alfa Romeo Giulietta has a small red LED in the headlining, which is positioned above the gearstick in order to illuminate it with a nifty red glow at night.
The car's dials also flash when Dynamic mode is engaged (the Sport mode, effectively).
On the subject of slightly gimmicky dials, the X351 Jaguar XJ has a TFT screen instead of physical dials.
Also, the XJ's dial screen is highlighted with a red glow when the car is in Dynamic mode, and an icy blue when in Winter mode.
The car's dials also flash when Dynamic mode is engaged (the Sport mode, effectively).
On the subject of slightly gimmicky dials, the X351 Jaguar XJ has a TFT screen instead of physical dials.
Also, the XJ's dial screen is highlighted with a red glow when the car is in Dynamic mode, and an icy blue when in Winter mode.
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