Friday, December 9, 2016
Racing Sundays Does Help Sales Monday
How Motorsport Has Transformed Every Car on the Road
To put it plainly, no sport on Earth has a more profound impact on your daily life than racing. If you've been in a vehicle today, your life has been impacted by racing, and I'm not exaggerating even a little here. It's not even so much racing as it is competitive corporate research and development, disguised as sport.
Fuel injection? All-wheel drive? Dual-clutch transmissions? All of these very common technologies are directly derived from motorsport, and those are merely the most obvious examples. Even today, various race series like Formula One and the World Endurance Championship (in which the Le Mans prototypes compete) push the advancement of technologies that will be on your car in the near future.
(Thrillist.com)
To put it plainly, no sport on Earth has a more profound impact on your daily life than racing. If you've been in a vehicle today, your life has been impacted by racing, and I'm not exaggerating even a little here. It's not even so much racing as it is competitive corporate research and development, disguised as sport.
Fuel injection? All-wheel drive? Dual-clutch transmissions? All of these very common technologies are directly derived from motorsport, and those are merely the most obvious examples. Even today, various race series like Formula One and the World Endurance Championship (in which the Le Mans prototypes compete) push the advancement of technologies that will be on your car in the near future.
(Thrillist.com)
Did You Know - Ford F Series Edition
7 Facts You Probably Don’t Know About The Ford F-Series
Why is it called an F-150 anyway?
Why is it called an F-150 anyway?
- The half ton ’48 Ford pickups were designated the F-1. Ford made upgraded the name to F-100 name in 1953,some claim inspired by the introduced of the F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter aircraft, also launched in 1953. The F-150 nomenclature wasn’t introduced until 1975. The reason? At just over 6,000 lbs. gross weight Ford was able to bypass EPA rules requiring catalytic converters and the use of unleaded gasoline by smaller vehicles.
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