Interesting Aerodynamic Cars (Mike Vetter's ETV, also Avion)

[freebeard]

I saw this on Facebook with no details, anybody know what it is?

According to Eben Moglen, who's opinion I respect, it is 'a man-in-the-middle attack by a thug in a hoodie'.

Edit:

Of course, like all other innovation there were unintended consequences. The browser made the Web very easy to read. Though we built Apache, though we built the browsers, though we built enormous numbers of things on top of Apache and the browsers, we did not make the Web easy to write. So a little thug in a hooded sweatshirt made the Web easy to write, and created a man in the middle attack on human civilization, which is unrolling now to an enormous music of social harm.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/even...note-2012.html

This is his talk Innovation Under Austerity. I watch it on Youtube every six months or so because I like the way he paces his speech.

[cptsideways]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Random TRANSPORTATION pictures - Page 1597 - Pelican Parts Technical BBS

V12 Twin Turbo 635bhp Might know quite a bit about these aka the job

So whilst working at Goodwood circuit today in the above cars (Its next door to the RR Factory) we spotted this in the car park, oh my god beautiful

175mph back in its day!!, XK120 aero Belgium speed special getting a shake down test, check out the grill shutters, & headlight air intakes

[freebeard]

I like the nose. That's more credible than the bubble-topped metalflake show cars in the 60s. Or today for that matter.




All http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/bubble%20top

Although the Thunder Bubble has some nice plan taper in the top:

[botsapper]

Pride of Italy ... MMMMhhh ... - UNLIMITED Engineering

[freebeard]

Same thing!

Go Away Garage

More pix there.

[redneck]

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[NeilBlanchard]

Here's a Mitsubishi concept for the i MiEV from around 2003:



Other than the angled spoiler, it looks pretty darn good.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

Here's a Mitsubishi concept for the i MiEV from around 2003:

I really like that car, the front end reminds me of my red clay 3-wheel car design.

The follow up design lost it's cuteness factor. Still, 0.26 C of D isn't too shabby despite the gaping openings in the front corners.

2013
More details on the Mitsubishi CA-MiEV electric concept car
More details on the Mitsubishi CA-MiEV electric concept car : TreeHugger



Not so-much as gaping openings, but dead pockets of air?

[freebeard]

Other than the angled spoiler, it looks pretty darn good.

More like a Gurney flap than a spoiler. I like them both but prefer the 30s style of the earlier one. They unfortunately lost the interesting features, the curved windshield header and the bottom door cut-line.

If you had a sponge in a bucket and a hose, which one would you rather hand-wash?

[redneck]