RE: VW Caddy Racer
Tuesday 25th June 2002
VW Caddy Racer
New promo vehicle will be a 200bhp diesel van
Discussion
'Using expertise gained on the Volkswagen Golf TDI racer, the first diesel-fuelled racing car in the UK'.
Not content with reaching the World cup final they have to try to change history. Forget about the Westfield Diesel that competed in the Wilhire 24 hour race and go back to 1932.
Brooklands Cerificate 2472 was issued to C L Cummings, Cummings Diesel for a flying start lap at 74.36 mph, Captain George Easton did rather better the following year in the A E C Fuel Oil Safety Special (natty name eh) who covered a kilometer at an average of 106.63 mph.
I'm slipping on my anorak as you read this!
Not content with reaching the World cup final they have to try to change history. Forget about the Westfield Diesel that competed in the Wilhire 24 hour race and go back to 1932.
Brooklands Cerificate 2472 was issued to C L Cummings, Cummings Diesel for a flying start lap at 74.36 mph, Captain George Easton did rather better the following year in the A E C Fuel Oil Safety Special (natty name eh) who covered a kilometer at an average of 106.63 mph.
I'm slipping on my anorak as you read this!
The aerodynamics should be quite good. It helps to keep the car on the ground. I once saw a yellow VW Golf combi (or how is it called) at the Belcar test day and it didn't do that bad. Diesel ? I refuelled our rented Passat for 36 Euros at LM two weeks ago. That's all the CDI needed. It's not too bad. That's how you win per mile, Audi shows it. Uwww, but there's not much fun involved.
Wildly inaccurate assumption. I've never owned a BMW or a Porsche, don't like toffee either, I'm currently driving a Turbo Diesel specially prepared as a development project by a championship winning racing team, it isn't a VW though. Used to sprint a pickup (ute) but it wasn't a diesel, it ran on a methanol mixture...that made my eyes water and nose twitch, do you count that as toffeenose?
In fact I love the idea of a racing GTiD. What I object to is the claim that it is the first Diesel racing car in the UK when there have been many many from the 1920s onwards, if it gets any worse they'll be claiming that Dr Diesel invented the compression ignition engine before he drowned.
Is it unreasonable to expect a major company to do a little basic research or to make honest claims? Would it be reasonable for me to claim to have made the first Vegimite sandwich? (I won't because I didn't).
PS
For the information of German Pistonkopfts I am also an avid Tutonophile with an unquechable lust for Kolsch.
>> Edited by gnomesmith on Saturday 29th June 21:32
>> Edited by gnomesmith on Saturday 29th June 22:21
In fact I love the idea of a racing GTiD. What I object to is the claim that it is the first Diesel racing car in the UK when there have been many many from the 1920s onwards, if it gets any worse they'll be claiming that Dr Diesel invented the compression ignition engine before he drowned.
Is it unreasonable to expect a major company to do a little basic research or to make honest claims? Would it be reasonable for me to claim to have made the first Vegimite sandwich? (I won't because I didn't).
PS
For the information of German Pistonkopfts I am also an avid Tutonophile with an unquechable lust for Kolsch.
>> Edited by gnomesmith on Saturday 29th June 21:32
>> Edited by gnomesmith on Saturday 29th June 22:21
quote:For further anorakness, and a good PH link, George Eyston (for I believe that is how it is spelt
Brooklands Cerificate 2472 was issued to C L Cummings, Cummings Diesel for a flying start lap at 74.36 mph, Captain George Easton did rather better the following year in the A E C Fuel Oil Safety Special (natty name eh) who covered a kilometer at an average of 106.63 mph.
) is I think a relative of Charles who runs Mole Valley TVR. I've got me coat ....
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