I don't see why not, the only thing i can come up with is pedestrian safety. A land rover discovery (or a defender) would be far more dangerous to a pedestrian than that ford would be. Knowing for they would probably make it plastic so that it could absorb it somewhat. The design is nice but a bit lacking in places in my opinion. For example the side windows and pillars (except the rear one) are totally flat. I also don't see any indicators that face sideways which would need a solution, but i imagine ford could come up with something. It reminds me a lot of the vw scirocco
Yes, I was taking pedestrian safety into account, in a car-car situation it'd probably be just like anything else. Land Rovers have flat fronts but they also seem to have rounded off edges, unlike this concept. Either way it's not a very appealing design, it just looked like a puffed-up 1979 Capri.
That is because its basically a VW golf with a boot welded to the back. it was also a Bora not a Gora and is of course simply a rebrand of the Jetta for certain markets.
Tailer mounted T5 with a chain linkage to a bicycle wheel located between the front seats. I actually like this idea. Someone needs to make a car whose engine is located on a trailer being towed by the vehicle, but the drive wheel(s) are located on the tow vehicle. You'd have to work out a way to get the power from the trailer to the axle, though. I bet your typical driveshaft with U-joints would work.
Because why the fuck not. And the whole idea is kinda funny. It's so incredibly inefficient and needlessly overcomplicated that it's cool. Using a conventional throttle cable probably wouldn't work because of the engine moving around behind you. It'd definitely have to be DBW. And you'd also probably want to have electrically assisted power steering, unless you want to run a bunch of vacuum lines between the car and the trailer. Then there's cooling. I bet you could leave the radiator in it's conventional spot in the front of the car and just have some long ass cooling hoses running from the front to the back. I'd also leave the gas tank on the car and just run fuel lines from the car to the engine. It's just kinda fun to think about stuff like this.
Not just that. It's like building a pc outside of your house by a pond, and using it for water cooling, and just running long wires from the computer to your monitor.
Before actual pc water cooling radiators were available, that's what people used to do - - - Updated - - - As for a trailer engine. Tons of new cars are drive by wire, its overtaken throttle cable now I think - same for electric power steering overtaking hydraulic (although most EPS systems are crap). A fuel injected engine already requires a degree of drive by wire in order to function, really all they've had to do these days is rather than having the ECU read the throttle position from the throttle bodies, read throttle from the pedal and have a motor on the throttle bodies. Safer in accidents that way, used to get issues with engines shifting in the bay but remaining in operation, yet something snags the cable and wedges the throttle wide open. Also some cold weather scenarios I've heard of problems with the cable contracting in the cold or becoming brittle and snapping, not cold enough here, is that true? I would have thought it its that cold then other parts of the engine would fail too.
That is actually happening. Joint buses have the engine in the very rear part of the bus, but rear and middle wheels are propulsed.
Yeah. Like i said, it'd have to be drive by wire (DBW) because the engine moving around would pull the cable. I hate all electronic assists or controls in the car. EPS is unreliable, DBW has proved not to be bad, but you're not even driving the car, the throttle input is really just a suggestion to the computer. It decides whether you actually go somewhere or not. I don't like that. :\ I've never heard of cables snapping in cold weather. I kinda doubt it gets cold enough around here.
EPS is possibly only thing that is functioning on my car while still being original factory parts entirely untouched. In theory, its a tunable setup, nobody has it tuned right. Mine provides *way* too much assist, lock to lock while stationary is absolutely effortless, although a cool touch is that as the vehicle speed increases the level of power assist decreases eventually cutting out entirely at 70mph or so. Somebody else told me about the cables snapping for throttle. Seems far fetched to me, but then my bonnet release cable did stretch so cable systems arent entirely flawless.
