Miscellaneous Car News

One for Roland?

 

Whilst in London

Wealthy Arabs flock to London with super cars in tow

 

I was watching "Chasing Classic Cars" last night and the show featured Steve Moal, a hot rodder unlike any I've seen before. Simply amazing. This car in particular caught my eye, the "Gatto", with Ferrari V12. Just gorgeous Gatto
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The rear pillar doesn't have the classic "Z" shape for Zagato cars but it is gorgeous .... gunna, then bring it on the GG

I love the double bubble roof

 

that's cause it aint a Zagato

 

Oh ok, but he has used a lot of Zagato's styling

 

It's a homage to that period, based on a Ford ?1932 chassis hence the hot rod crossover. The owner had the car commissioned as he is into classic Ferraris and hotrods

 

Of course; it's blue.

 

Nope re chassis. It has fully independent suspension ... and the chassis is a space frame.
Pete

 

Yep, thanks, my mistake

This one here is just pure madness. 550 Maranello engine
Torpedo

 

Yawn.

Roland?

 

Whom?

 

Agreed, I fell asleep before the 2 minute mark ..... woke up and my computer was out of date

 

New emissions targets set by the European Union are forcing car manufacturers to think hard about how they'll lower average CO2 emissions across their fleets before the end of the decade.

According to figures produced by International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), the average CO2 emissions of new cars have fallen from 160g/km in 2006 to 132g/km in 2012, a drop of about 17 per cent.

Manufacturers must also comply with an average fleet rating of 130g/km by the end of next year, a target which most firms expect to meet. However, European rule makers have specified a target of just 95g/km by 2020.

A late tweak to the regulations means that only 95 per cent of new cars have to hit the 2020 targets. However, 100 per cent of new vehicles will have to comply by 2021.

The drop from the 2015 target to the 2020 target is an average reduction in fuel consumption of about 27 per cent, something that will clearly be a challenge for all manufacturers.

The 95g/km average doesn’t apply exactly to each manufacturer. Each brand has its own target, because the CO2 target figure is calculated by taking into account the average weight of a brand’s vehicles.

One of the impacts of the new system is that Fiat, which has the lightest vehicles at an average of 1209kg, has to meet an average CO2 target of 85g/km. Daimler, which has the heaviest vehicle fleet, at 1583kg, has a CO2 target of 101g/km for 2020.

These fuel efficiency figures and targets have been calculated by using the standard NEDC (New European Driving Cycle). However, the EU says that it is committed to bringing in a new fuel economy test before 2020, which could make hitting the CO2 targets even more difficult.

The new fuel economy test is called the ‘World-Harmonized Light-duty Vehicles Test Procedure’ (WLTP). It was adopted by the United Nations Working Party on Pollution and Energy last November.

The WLTP is designed to be a closer representation of real-world driving conditions and it has been developed using a database of 460,000 miles of global driving data.

In its report, the ICCT admits that the NEDC test does not reflect CO2 output in “real-world” conditions. Indeed, it says that the NEDC fuel consumption figures could be inaccurate by “up to 25 per cent”. It says that the new WLTP will reduce this gap “to some extent”.

Hitting the 95g/km targets will be difficult and expensive for nearly all of Europe’s car makers. Moving the goalposts by introducing WLTP to calculate emissions could make the situation even more challenging and expensive.


Major car makers face toughest emissions challenge yet | Autocar

I guess we will all be riding electric bicycles, H-D or otherwise

 

So you want a 4th motorbike or just someone to sue?

 

Only buy from barristers

 

Sounds like female pads.

Whatever they are.