RE: Radical RXC: Time For Tea?

[james280779]

HYPESTHYPE said:

Very creative. Attractive woman + Radical.
Seems to be good enough....

I must be too fussy- I thought she would be more attractive, nice car though

[Zed Ed]

Good male values ad; I'm guessing they are not planning on selling many to birds , lol

Love the car

[smilo996]

Brilliant. Perhaps it comes with a matching pooch bag. Got to admire the idea.

[juansolo]

BertBert said:

blurb said:

Quaife Automatic Torque Biasing

That means it's a slushbox auto doesn't it?
Bert

That's the differential. Works the same way as a Torsen (which is a company name rather than type of diff). They're a mechanical LSD that directs the power to the wheel with the most grip up to a certain ratio. Unlike a locking differential that puts the drive to both wheels 50/50.

vrooom said:

Oh bummer. paddle shift only. thats a deal breaker.

http://www.radicalsportscars.com/uk/showroom/radic...

It has a proper sequential gearbox. It'll still have a clutch pedal, you'll just only use it pulling away and stopping. Even if it didn't have paddles, it'd have a lever that you pulled and kept your foot buried on the throttle (it'd have flatshift at the very least) and you'd only use the clutch on the way down. On a transmission like this, paddle shift is very much warranted and indeed preferred. It's a very different beast to dual clutch robotised manuals.

Edited by juansolo on Wednesday 18th September 08:26

[hussein]

Sam should have just driven it herself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5TUUbp7o_A

[LuckyNumber7]

Anyone know which roads these are? They look like a blast!

[Trtj]

NGK210 said:

Interesting car. But yawn, what a disappointingly sexist vid - would've been much more interesting if the ScaJo lookalike had jumped into the driver's seat and done the dab of oppo/wheelspin routine herself. Guess the RXC is aimed at the mid-life-crisis market?

Bang on. It made me cringe, in between looking at her tits. Fat man and those sunglasses, target marketing so accurate I have to give credit to Radical.

[sinbaddio]

If I had a lady like that I'd have no time for driving ....

[threespires]

Radical RXC

[BertBert]

juansolo said:

BertBert said:

blurb said:

Quaife Automatic Torque Biasing

That means it's a slushbox auto doesn't it?
Bert

That's the differential.

vrooom said:

Oh bummer. paddle shift only. thats a deal breaker.
http://www.radicalsportscars.com/uk/showroom/radic...

Yes, obviously the diff! It was my (rather poor) acerbic reply to the paddle shift comment.
Bert

[Duffman83]

I got to see ones of these at Snetterton for the BTCC a few months back, very impressive bit of kit, didnt know it was 10k plus though. Never even realised it was a road car.

[BertBert]

Indeed a little more than 10k!

It's a road car to allow it to go GT racing to appeal to the gentleman driver who might otherwise go GT racing in a Ferrari, Porsche or Mclaren. AIUI.

I love the concept it's brilliant to build a road-legal hard core racer that expands Radical's racing horizons.

Looks good in the flesh too.
Bert

[Oddball RS]

sinbaddio said:

If I had a lady like that I'd have no time for driving ....

Why whats up with the one you've got?

[NGK210]

CraigyMc said:

I think the girl is Sammie Parker. She teaches drifting in caterhams.

C

She teaches drifting, and they didn't film her doing the driving??

I hope Radical's engineering is more forward-thinking than its marketing

[sinbaddio]

Oddball RS said:

Why whats up with the one you've got?

She's costing me a fortune in divorce lawyers fees

[405dogvan]

NGK210 said:

CraigyMc said:

I think the girl is Sammie Parker. She teaches drifting in caterhams.

C

She teaches drifting, and they didn't film her doing the driving??

I hope Radical's engineering is more forward-thinking than its marketing

I was probably similar to a bit in Victoria Coren's book on poker where she's at a tournament and the TV people say they're "looking for a woman who knows =about poker and is good on camera" and suffix it with "and we were wondering if you knew anyone?"

[Duffman83]

[quote=BertBert]Indeed a little more than 10k!

Whoops, meant to say 100k lol

[frontsplitter]

It's not Sam

[DiscoColin]

threespires said:

It just looks like what you would expect if you asked this guy to build an LMP style car out of an SR8.....

[CraigyMc]

frontsplitter said:

It's not Sam

Fair enough. Who is it?