Proactive Chassis Control
The MP4-12C's clever suspension bits worked so well in Sebastien Loeb's Citroen rally car that the FIA banned this technology in 2006. What looks like an ordinary shock absorber at each wheel is instead a hydraulic cylinder. In relation to wheel motion, a piston inside each cylinder pumps hydraulic fluid into and out of the chambers above and below the piston. All eight chambers are connected to two accumulators, each of which contains fluid and nitrogen separated by a bladder. Unlike...
Lotus Esprit
somewhat less extreme sister model, the Lotus Elan. pow e rt r a in Mid engine, rear wheel drive platform with aV-8 engine of as yet undetermined origin. The V 8 is expected to make about 550 horsepower a hybrid system should lift output to 620 horsepower. competition Ferrari 458 Italia, Lamborghini Gallardo, Porsche 911 Turbo. what might go wrong Everything. This is Lotus, after all. Minor elements such as the source of the engine are still up in the air. Lotus says the Esprit will appear in...
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