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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/prices-evs-plug-in-hybrids-fall-chinese-city-shenzhen-state-planner-says-2024-04-22/ This domestic oversupply of Chinese EVs has led to fears in the US and Europe of "dumping" excess Chinese model production in external markets leading to undercutting...

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/32426303.pdf Maybe Red Bull have discovered somehow to combine /distribute both localised shockwave lift and aerodynamic downforce in the same chassis and thus relieving tyre wear without losing downforce for the main chassis?

I had a mate at Uni whose main ambition in life was to fly Buccaneers in the Fleet Air Arm. He was bright - mathematics degree, super fit highly motivated and fitted all the criteria necessary for pilot training. He was accepted into the training school in the full knowledge that only a select...

The only time that the Red Bull racing cars seem to lose their performance advantage is in the wet.This makes me suspect that their superior "ground effect aerodynamics" are actually much the same as other Formula One cars. The secret of their enhanced performance is their ability to achieve...

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-footage-reveals-new-details-of-exchange-between-police-and-antisemitism-campaigner-called-openly-jewish-13120104

The increasingly technical and physical demands of driving an F1 CAR seems to be leading to younger and younger drivers. As such there are interesting parallels to be drawn with fighter pilot training. What is the "optimal" age of a fighter pilot...

A little rockette from Sarah J- NOTE the 8 stringer she is playing!

Just the sort of weather for a GREEN 4WD W124! :thumb:

The reasons for the continuing conflict in the middle east are internal political pressures in the countries directly involved. Nothing removes the attention of a nation's population from the incompetence, fundamentalist thinking and corruption ,of those in control , like an ongoing conflict...

Mercedes-Benz W115 Classic Car Parts Shop YOU will need your chassis no----RHD and LHD may be different also------ see transmission pedal assembly

A minor point really but because cars have a gearbox, mileage does not necessarily equate to the same engine RPM / belt wear from car to car. A car that has spent many miles in the lower gears/higher engine RPMs will experience more belt wear compared to one spent most of its mileage at...

Still can't reconcile Israel's intelligence ability to take out two Iranian military chiefs with clinical precision in a foreign country yesterday and yet were apparently still unable to warn of the events of the HAMAS attack of 7th OCT ???? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68708923

Mercedes also built pickup versions of the earlier Ponton models in South Africa . Known affectionately as bakkies, heres a restoration article http://www.mbzponton.org/pax058/people/bakkie2/perold.htm

Diesel Range Rover iirc ?

Then there is the way manfacturers should be going- cheap and cheerful. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/citroen-progressive-hydraulic-cushions-replace-hydractive-3-suspension-108175.html