Weird car facts...

[pishadeperro]

99% of all cars in the 80's-90's used morris marina door handles...or so it seemed!

[pishadeperro]

and my transporter van

vit4 said:

That's the key my dad's Skoda Fabia has too.

[DannyVTS]

pishadeperro said:

and my transporter van

vit4 said:

That's the key my dad's Skoda Fabia has too.

And my mates bora! (why not keep this going eh?)

[busta]

SVX said:

rallycross said:

lancia delta window wipers lift off the screen even before you reach 100 mph making progress in the rain quite tricky.

I can attest to this being true

At 90mph, my Peugeot wipers will go up really quickly, but don't have enough power to come back down again.

[Liquid Knight]

Can anyone else remember the wiper spoilers from the Max Power generation?

[LuS1fer]

Liquid Knight said:

Can anyone else remember the wiper spoilers from the Max Power generation?

We had them in the 70's, a set of three fixed louvres that clipped on your arms (and didn't work).

The Corvette C4 had clap-hands wipers and they wouldn't stay on the screen either but then it did have the steepest 64 degree rake of any production American car when launched in 1984.
In addition the car had a 4+3 manual gearbox with overdrive on the top 3 gears.
The car was the first with a composite transverse spring (not steel)
On July 2nd 1992, the millionth Corvette was produced.

Why are these facts weird, well because GM is a massive car company producing a fibreglass/plastic sports car which they have been making since 1953, eons before the Porsche 901 and it will be 60 in 2013.

Edited by LuS1fer on Wednesday 16th March 19:25

[XitUp]

rallycross said:

Early Porsche 944 models use the same key blanks as vw/audi from that era.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[carlove]

DannyVTS said:

pishadeperro said:

and my transporter van

vit4 said:

That's the key my dad's Skoda Fabia has too.

And my mates bora! (why not keep this going eh?)

And my mates A3

[HereBeMonsters]

carlove said:

DannyVTS said:

pishadeperro said:

and my transporter van

vit4 said:

That's the key my dad's Skoda Fabia has too.

And my mates bora! (why not keep this going eh?)

And my mates A3

FFS. The fact that most VAG cars of the same era use the same (or a similar) keyfob is NOT a "weird car fact". It's only even remotely (hur-hur) interesting the first time when the juxtaposition of a Bentley and a Lupo or whatever using the same thing. That a number of very similar boring Euroboxes (of which I have one, natch) use the same thing is not at all interesting, far less "weird". Stop it.

[LuS1fer]

My 1996 Golf GTI DOESN'T use that fob....hmmm, weird eh?

[HereBeMonsters]

LuS1fer said:

My 1996 Golf GTI DOESN'T use that fob....hmmm, weird eh?

Older platform.

[LuS1fer]

HereBeMonsters said:

Older platform.

No sh*t

[carlove]

Don't know if its been mentioned but I remember someone telling me Alfa GTV/Spiders have Lamborghini indicator stalks

[sebhaque]

My old TT had a similar key to the one above.

I was watching some TG reruns earlier today - the paint on an old Merc 300SL weighs 25kg alone. Also Merc apparently still keep all the spares for every car they've produced.

The buttresses on the Jag XJS were originally designed as the car was supposed to be mid-engined, but when the engine was stuck in the front nobody thought to remove the buttresses. Believe that's from James May.

Don't think I've seen this one yet but there's a rumour that the BMW Mini's exhaust pipe shape was created inadvertantly as when the first mockup was produced, it didn't have an exhaust. The designer hurriedly stuck a beer can onto where the zorst should have been and the shape stayed since.

[deveng]

carlove said:

And my mates A3

Nope the A3 has a figure of 8 key ring on the bottom left of the key fob, not the D shaped hoop along the bottom.

I'll go now

[Billy Hunt]

pishadeperro said:

99% of all cars in the 80's-90's used morris marina MGB door handles...or so it seemed!

[va1o]

deveng said:

carlove said:

And my mates A3

Nope the A3 has a figure of 8 key ring on the bottom left of the key fob, not the D shaped hoop along the bottom.

I'll go now

Just to drag this out a bit further, no it doesn't

[sjabrown]

On the high side of 100mph a pug 205's wipers go up but not back, and the wing mirrors slowly fold themselves in.

[wolfy1988]

sjabrown said:

On the high side of 100mph a pug 205's wipers go up but not back, and the wing mirrors slowly fold themselves in.

I've driven a F430 that did the very same thing at 120

[soxboy]

Tyre Tread said:

balls-out said:

The rover p5 (not p5b) had a hole for a starting handle. I imagine that a 3litre 6 cylinder took some turning.

Not exactly 'weird' though as most cars designed in the era in which the P5 was designed had a starting handle.

Not as much fun as trying to start by hand the V8 in the early Range Rovers - these had a hole in the front bumper for starting handle too.