The site says this is a 2.5 liter Alfa Romeo V6 in a Harley frame of some sort. It uses the Harley 4 speed transmission and is, check the photo, a kick start! No other details. I saw this on Jalopnik where they say it's from Australia but nothing on the site indicates that so who knows? Interesting alternative to the Boss Hoss. Italian Cars (scroll down the page) via … [Read more...]
New X Prize for High Mileage
After yesterday's post about expanding our proven oil reserves, some seem to think The Kneeslider is an unrepentant gas guzzler. No comment. However, everyone may like this new Automotive X Prize that offers $25 million dollars for a car that gets 250mpg. Previous X Prizes for human powered flight and private space flight are done and claimed, the logical extension is to offer … [Read more...]
Are Motorcycle Horsepower Numbers Accurate?
New motorcycles come out, new horsepower claims are made, but how can you be sure everything is on the up and up? In the auto world, Toyota and Honda have had to readjust their horsepower numbers after running their engines through the stricter SAE standards, the Toyota Camry, for instance, fell from 210hp to 190, a pretty sizable drop. Domestic cars from GM, Ford and Chrysler, … [Read more...]
Enhanced Recovery Means More Oil
The Department of Energy released reports indicating the effect enhanced recovery techniques are having on recoverable oil reserves. With all of the hand wringing going on and predictions of "peak oil" doom, these reports don't get a lot of publicity, but they should. Our current proven reserves of 21.4 billion barrels could be increased by another 89 billion barrels, that's … [Read more...]
Scuderi Split Cycle Engine – again
A few recent articles popped up about the Scuderi Split Cycle engine. The reason for the latest interest is because of the funding they recently received of around $8 million dollars, including $1.2 million from the Department of Defense. They also say they are going to show their technology to the SAE next month. The Scuderi Split Cycle engine periodically shows up in the … [Read more...]
Smartuki Kits Now Available
The very popular Smartuki is now available in kit form. The Smartuki, as you'll recall, is the GSX-R powered Smart car originally built by Z Cars for Peter Bee. Although the Smartuki was an incredible little beast, Z Cars didn't have the time to turn out a kit and sold the whole project to Bill Allen. Allen, who was involved in building the original Smartuki, took the time to … [Read more...]
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