Post by grumpynorthener on Oct 25, 2020 9:47:31 GMT
A place for the historical facts of motoring and who got there first - please feel free to post your knowledge & research - to kick off
Jenson FF - The worlds first production car fitted with ABS (Anti lock Braking System) - this was a mechanical system (also fitted to the Ferguson P99 race car & all wheel drive Ford Zodiac - but how many of them have you come across)
Jowett Javelin - The worlds first production car fitted with a curved glass windscreen (and rear screen come to that)
Post by grumpynorthener on Oct 26, 2020 8:08:03 GMT
The first Grand Prix race was held in 1906 on a road course close to Le Mans in France - other races were held before this date but the Grand Prix has always been considered the forerunner to the F1 format of races that we know today
Jenson FF - The worlds first production car fitted with ABS (Anti lock Braking System) - this was a mechanical system (also fitted to the Ferguson P99 race car & all wheel drive Ford Zodiac - bust how many of them have you come across)
It's also worth mentioning that the FF was also the first non-all-terrain production vehicle to be fitted with 4-wheel drive. This enabled it to lay those 330bhp down on the road whilst improving grip and handling.
2 firsts in one picture. The first 4 wheel drive car to win a world championship rally , the gorgeous Audi Quattro. The first woman to drive to a championship event win , the equally gorgeous Michelle Mouton.
2 firsts in one picture. The first 4 wheel drive car to win a world championship rally , the gorgeous Audi Quattro. The first woman to drive to a championship event win , the equally gorgeous Michelle Mouton.
Whilst I don't wish to seem cruel, I'm not sure she's aged as well as the Audi?
'The Neapolitan pasta firm's brief included, among other things, a specific request for a shape that could be mass-produced.
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he external surface is smooth in true Neapolitan traditions: inside Marille are lined for maximum sauce and flavour retention. The shape has been so designed to remain well "structured" after boiling, and to be "displayed" in nouvelle cuisine dishes.
Even it is a pasta, Marille refers to the automotive world. Its shape was inspired by the automobile door gasket section.'
'The Neapolitan pasta firm's brief included, among other things, a specific request for a shape that could be mass-produced.
A Greek "beta", a wave – there are various possible interpretations of the undulatory shape Giugiaro Design came up with. T
he external surface is smooth in true Neapolitan traditions: inside Marille are lined for maximum sauce and flavour retention. The shape has been so designed to remain well "structured" after boiling, and to be "displayed" in nouvelle cuisine dishes.
Even it is a pasta, Marille refers to the automotive world. Its shape was inspired by the automobile door gasket section.'
Stripped timing belt pasta for the win 🤣🤣 Given the House Elf’s recent culinary discovery’s at Uni,( he chose self catered accommodation so his cooking skills have been developing rapidly,not necessarily in an edible way 🤣🤣), he should be able to make the stripped timing belt pasta black fairly easily Last week he mastered a skill I have never mastered, making pasta black without burning it. Well the recipe called for 1/3 cup of soy sauce.( Recipe feeds 6 ,so his plan was to freeze most of it for future use ). Admittedly I think Alcohol may have been an extenuating circumstance. 1 to 3 cups of soy sauce? 2 sounds good...🤣🤣🤣 Result? Black Noodles ,salty as hell,totally unedible....
Don’t know how true this is,but I have been told that the Mazda Rx2 was one of the first,possibly even the first Japanese car to use bonded in front and rear windscreens. Quite a revolutionary car for its time with that, a rotary engine and five link rear suspension all as standard. The designers were on a roll. Then, in a moment of sheer madness, they totally ruined all their revolutionary thinking by fitting a steering box instead of a rack....🙄🙄🙄
Don’t know how true this is,but I have been told that the Mazda Rx2 was one of the first,possibly even the first Japanese car to use bonded in front and rear windscreens. Quite a revolutionary car for its time with that, a rotary engine and five link rear suspension all as standard. The designers were on a roll. Then, in a moment of sheer madness, they totally ruined all their revolutionary thinking by fitting a steering box instead of a rack....🙄🙄🙄
Mazda were indeed one of the first Japanese vehicle producers to use bonded windscreen technology but not the first in the world - Vauxhall used the bonded glass process for the windscreen in the FD Victor range 1966 - 1974 - however this procedure was still in its infancy and Vauxhall returned to the more common rubber windscreen seal for FE series Victor range produced between 1972 to 1978 - Most manufactures adopted the direct glazing / bonded windscreen process through the late 70's / early to mid 80's
In 1990 Mazda introduced the 4th generation of their Cosmo. In general terms it was very technologically advanced; it had a triple-rotor twin-turbo Wankel engine capable of propelling this GT from 0-60mph in 6 seconds with a top end just below 160mph. It featured a car management system accessed through a (colour) touch screen which was also a TV.
Embedded within the car management system and accessed by the same interface was the first Sat Nav ever installed in a production car.