Indian Tata motors (who now own Jaguar and Land Rover) plan to build a few very expensive (as in $200k) versions of their cheapest car, the Nano. See: http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2010/01/07/Worlds_cheape...
My chuckle yesterday:
The wet season has begun. The windshield washers were running out of liquid so I pulled into an auto shop and bought a bottle of concentrated washer liquid. Then drove down the road to a supermarket to buy some pure water. It was raining lightly as I stood there, in front of the smart, pouring water into the reservoir, when I hear: "'scuse me mate... is that all it takes to make that car go?"... now is that a leading question or what?
Here is a pic showing the before and after intensities. We just installed these yesterday and they are super bright. We tested all the light functions and nothing has been altered. The only difference are brighter lights which only took about 15 min…
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Very nice post! I drove a truck in college - and old Detroit 318 2 stroke V-8 diesel with a 13 speed transmission - so I can appreciate your explanation. However, I suspect the Smart Car uses the clutch for each shift, even though the computer waits…
As I understand it, the reverse gear is not syncronized. Most stick shift cars do not have a syncronizer for the reverse gear. The effect of this is that occasionally the two gear teeth that are supposed to "mesh", instead "butt heads" and don't mes…
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