excellent response by the Smith Bros. and FFR. I mean Jesus H.... as an example, Lotus saw the light years ago and sold the Super 7 rights and tooling to Caterham and through many other kit makers such as Westfield and the Locost movement, that car survives in a very coveted guise today. 'cept this crotchety windbag overrates himself with a car he copied. well, at least he still has his chili recipes. maybe he should cook up a batch and get over it while having a crap.
a possible link to the Pontiac design was that a young chief engineer named John Delorean left Packard before their demise and landed at Pontiac. I'm sure he absorbed a lot at Packard that he took with him to General Motors
um, no shit David. thanks for being the 231st outsider to say what people around here already know. the only thing you forgot was the Kwame effect. go crawl in Matty Moroun's shorts and get him to loosen up and save a few buildings instead of being a billionaire slumlord.
my sister and brother in law live in downtown Detroit after moving from Austin and they wouldn't trade it for anything. if one takes the time to walk around the Wayne State area (2nd Avenue) or down Woodward near Comerica and to the immediate north and south of the ballpark you'd see quite a few people are way ahead of Mr. Byrne's observations.
my sister and brother in law live in downtown Detroit after moving from Austin and they wouldn't trade it for anything. if one takes the time to walk around the Wayne State area (2nd Avenue) or down Woodward near Comerica and to the immediate north and south of the ballpark you'd see quite a few people are way ahead of Mr. Byrne's observations.
anyone buying this PR? let's see that magnificent trellis frame or does it exist only in CAD? less than 660 lbs? um yeah. right. if you look at my avatar (squint real hard) that is my long gone S7 built with virtually the same components as the Spartan and it weighed 980 lbs using a Yamaha R1 engine. and 300 1200cc Ducati engines? I guess the people in Bologna are very generous.
my guess is that Spartan is trolling for some significant investment money.
my guess is that Spartan is trolling for some significant investment money.
I got into a heated debate with some west coast canadian intellectuals (ie: public service retirees from Victoria) saying that the key to a green or carbon footprint was mass or the lack of it rather than alternative powerplants and that the ICE had a lot of life left in it for decades to come. of course I was ravaged and stupid and thoughtless and knew nothing about cars and the environment. glad to see this winner selected and a bit of vindication for me. the future of the automobile will be single seating or the growth of single seat vehicles and low displacement powerplants.
No truth to the rumor that the theft was linked to my name...
@no_slushbox: car companies all do it differently. some use the front axle ctrline and some use a grid line at the front of the car in side view. euro designers coming over here often set their designs in body (incorrectly for that new company) till they're informed of the differentiation. front of tire? never seen that in my life. that's new(!) lol
@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: 'member that term well. we had to add a 'gimp' to seal the DN101 door handle back in 1992 although I thought the Ford engineer was a gimp... I take that back. They all were.
you forgot "rabbet'. didn't see ditch molding either
@allenparkpete: from a design and engineering development standpoint.
@FodderTheSane: Daimler had nothing to do with the vehicles covered in that both the (ZJ and WJ) covered the Bob Eaton/Bob Lutz era.
Interesting. Considering that I was an engineer on the 1999 WJ program which was a completely new Grand Cherokee from the 93 Z platform and that the vehicle architecture between the two differed greatly, I find the claims by NHTSA far fetched. Bear in mind the WJ had a spare tire tub (of which the ZJ did not) in the underbody that if anything would've reinforced the rear structure of that vehicle due to an impact. Using a common automotive acronym we can assume that NHTSA is FOS.
@bacon117 - Escort Owner, Lover: had a late afternoon beer with a Roush employee and he and a few others had listened to the tape of Jack landing earlier in the day. its as you say bacon. apparently there was another plane on his runway cutting across as he was about to land. he was told very quickly there was a situation and his last words were "that's not good". then...kaboom. his Beechcraft was a very well engineered aircraft; probably the best for that class out there. anything less and his nine lives would've run out.
@$kaycog: and they miss him at Bronco's just off Schaefer...
@Fodder650: what might have thrown you off is that the Delta Wing is actually a design study from an employee of Ganassi. This guy Ben Bowlby used to be a Lola employee ages ago. He actually has a stand out pedigree. [www.google.ca]
Soon to be the race car of choice in the IRL.
Susan Docherty lost her sales portfolio as well. Wonder if they had to do the Chevy Volt dance for Big Ed?
This one was brewing for a while. From a good source, Wilbur hired a lot of ex-Chrysler types and overlayered the staff. Word is the well trained engineers and designers re-did the Aptera body but erred by using sheet metal practices instead of designing for composite materials. Oops! I guess that cost quite a bit of money. Hence PW's application for a bailout. Sorry to see Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony go but it may be the best thing that ever happened to them in the long run. #wiredautopia
@Ray Wert: very true Ray. one is about building a car; the other is about building an ego. #localmotors
Hope you got my email the other day, Ray about LM and the Rally Fighter. Those are good folks at Local Motors. Jay is a great leader. #localmotors
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