Just a heads up for anyone like me that missed it on Sun... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01f11hp/How_to_Go_Faster_and_Influence_People_The_Gordon_Murray_F1_Story/ Surprisingly sensible take on the environmental side of things
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Also watched that. It might be me but I spotted a few glaring design faults on that new small car. 1/ has the clearance of that front opening door been checked in multi story car parks ?! 2/ if passengers are carried the driver has to get out so they can ! 3/ I think getting kids in and out would be an issue 4/ in a frontal collision how would you get out and getting passengers out in an emergency would be tricky 5/ wouldn't like to get in or out in heavy rain ! 6/ accident repairs to that composite reinforced tubular chassis would be a real issue.
That should do for starters !
Also, he didn't invent the fan car, Jim Hall did with the 2J Chaparral, he also didn't invent ground effect.
That should do for starters !
Also, he didn't invent the fan car, Jim Hall did with the 2J Chaparral, he also didn't invent ground effect.
Also he wasn't the first with the central steering position and two seats behind. Check the net for the car
http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/lord-ks-garage-47-wimille
I thought it was a good programme.
Anthony
http://www.dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/lord-ks-garage-47-wimille
I thought it was a good programme.
Anthony
more to the point it was designed so everyone would buy an economical car, who would buy one of those! it looks stupid and you can just about cram 3 people in it, what good is that, might as well buy a motorbike and sidecar, then at leaste you can wear goggles and a scarf and look cool as f##k
should have just ignored the car and focussed on his other design stuff that was really interesting, even the misses didnt winge all the way through !
should have just ignored the car and focussed on his other design stuff that was really interesting, even the misses didnt winge all the way through !
Maybe i missed the point but i thought the program was more about their approach to manufacturing a car than being specifically about a marmite eco box... efficiency through weight saving, tubular frame for cost and flexability reasoning ect with environmental side being almost a side effect which was refreshing compared to the more usual nonsense like carbon exchange and other bull 