Archive for 'Motor Vehicles' Category
TTxGP Clean Emissions Grand Prix Race
30 June 2008June 2009 will mark the first running of the TTxGP Clean Emissions Grand Prix Race at the famous Isle of Mann TT circuit. The whole point of the race is to show clean and green doesn’t have to mean slow. There have been a lot of alternative energy drivetrains proposed and built but the image [...]
Drake Harley Davidson Water Cooled V-Twin Engine
9 June 2008Around 1937, Dale Drake, who was later to become instrumental in developments to the Offenhauser racing engine, began working on a 2 cylinder engine for midget racers. He began with an air cooled opposed twin but eventually took a Harley Davidson Knucklehead engine and installed water cooled cylinders. The result was an 89 cubic inch [...]
Harley Davidson Sportster Powered Ford Model T
31 May 2008The combinations are endless, take a motorcycle engine, drop it into a car and off you go, like this 1923 Model T with a Harley Davidson 1200 Sportster engine for power. I’m guessing it has more horsepower than the original engine by a fair margin plus the unmistakable V-twin sound.
The Model T uses the Sportser’s [...]
Honda Driving Safety Support Systems
28 March 2008Honda is testing what it calls its Driving Safety Support Systems (DSSS). 2 vehicles, a Honda Odyssey, Advanced Safety Vehicle (ASV-4) and a Honda Forza scooter, are equipped with inter-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communications capabilities, plus other scooters will be used for camera detection purposes.
The purpose of the project is to utilize positional information gleaned from [...]
Motorcycle Powered Hydrostatic Drive Racecar
11 February 2008As long as we’re discussing hydrostatic drive around here with the diesel hydrostatic drive motorcycle and a 2WD hydrostatic trail bike, how about a hydrostatic drive race car? Bob Horn sent in this link showing some design work done by students at Aston University in England.
As part of a project called the Global Design Initiative [...]
Tata NANO - The Motorcycle Replacement
10 January 2008Well, here it is, the Tata Nano, the People’s Car we wrote about the other day. The fuel injected, all aluminum, 623 cc 2 cylinder engine puts out 33PS (about 32 horsepower) and drives the rear wheels. According to the press release below, it has crumple zones, intrusion-resistant doors, seat belts, strong seats and anchorages [...]
Suzuki SXForce Motorcycle Themed Show Car
6 November 2007Suzuki motorcycles are big sellers and well known in the marketplace, Suzuki cars, not so much. They have been trying to get a little motorcycle magic to rub off on their automotive line with TV ads where both appear side by side but at the SEMA show, this SXForce show car was on display where [...]
Yamaha Tesseract 4 Wheel Leaning Concept
5 October 2007Yamaha will be introducing a lot of new concept vehicles at the Tokyo Motor Show and the Yamaha Tesseract, a 4 wheel leaning vehicle ups the ante when compared to all of the other 3 wheel tilters coming out.
The Tesseract is a hybrid 4 wheeler, powered by both a V-Twin gasoline engine and an electric [...]
