Oh Dear ! What an unfortunate name.....

[bloodline]

Also, what's a quasiturbine?  some kind of hybrid gas turbine which is efficient at low revs?

Not it's a bit like a Wankel engine, but it has a 4 sided rotor, the sides of the rotor are not fixed, but hinged.

Due to this the Rotor doesn't need to be offest from the drive shaft, thus it has 0 vibration and is more efficient than a Wankel, though it has similar problems.

The name, IIRC, derives fromth e fact that the design team started with the concept of the Gas turbine, and slowly developed and evolved the idea. It's quite remarkable, if there is any future in IC engines, this has to be it.

[PMC]

Wankel sounds much funnier though. Cars are great for double entendre with phrases like "big end", "crank shaft", "gear box" and "gear knob" being used to describe various mechanical shenanigans.

(just to bring us back on topic, can't have a reasoned debate on rotary vs reciprocating combustion engines now can we?)

Must be my filthy mind?  I remember finding the grille of an Edsel Ford to be incredibly amusing...

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1958%20Edsel%20Convert%20Green.JPG

Oh and is there any truth in the urban legend that Mitsubishi's Pajero means something very obscene in Portuguese?

[Star69]

PMC wrote:

Must be my filthy mind?  I remember finding the grille of an Edsel Ford to be incredibly amusing...

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1958%20Edsel%20Convert%20Green.JPG

 :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:

[Doobrey]

PMC wrote:

Must be my filthy mind?  I remember finding the grille of an Edsel Ford to be incredibly amusing...
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1958%20Edsel%20Convert%20Green.JPG

 ..innocent whistle..
 Nope, dunno what you mean.. doesn`t look anything like a fanny
 ..innocent whistle..

Oh and is there any truth in the urban legend that Mitsubishi's Pajero means something very obscene in Portuguese?

Dunno, but I heard that "Coca-Cola" in Cantonese means "eat a wax tadpole", and that British Leyland had to rename the Allegro for the French market, cos it sounded like "go fat person".. and you don`t need to be told what the Toyota MR-2 translated as....

[PMC]

Doobrey wrote:
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1958%20Edsel%20Convert%20Green.JPG

 ..innocent whistle..
 Nope, dunno what you mean.. doesn`t look anything like a fanny
 ..innocent whistle..

Haha!  I wonder what was on the stylists minds when they sketched the front of the Edsel?  Actually I may have discovered the perfect company car for one of my bosses.

and you don`t need to be told what the Toyota MR-2 translated as....

:lol:

Speaking of which, the Japanese market has given is a few gems too:

http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=rav4.jpg&category=Cars&date=2004-08-18
http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?imagename=cr-v.jpg&category=Cars&date=2002-06-17

Star69 wrote:

PMC wrote:

Must be my filthy mind?  I remember finding the grille of an Edsel Ford to be incredibly amusing...

http://www.tvhistory.tv/1958%20Edsel%20Convert%20Green.JPG

 :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:

Adds somewhat more weight to the phrase "Ride the punani". ;-)

[PMC]

Even though the Edsel was designed in very innocent times (the 1950s), it's difficult to imagine that not one single person pointed out the hilarity of that grille.  I mean, there must have been some married men on the design team?

I wonder what the reaction would be today if someone else unveiled a car with a similar grille?  

Come to think of it, it's an apt motif for BMW to adopt...