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Title    Deltawing Cars to Stretch the Reign of Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturers
Date    Sunday March 29 2015, @04:55AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the show-me-the-family-model dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/03/28/0841214

Phoenix666 writes:

Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) producers must be feeling the heat from electric vehicles (EVs) --enter the deltawing car, "half the weight, half the fuel, half the horsepower, all the speed.":

The Deltawing currently only exists as a race car, one that was designed under the mantra “half the weight, half the fuel, half the horsepower, all the speed.” But Panoz (a Georgia-based low-volume car company from the man who invented the nicotine patch) wants to make road-going Deltawings, saying that you don’t need 300 horsepower to go fast; 1.4 L and 138 horsepower should be enough. Oh, and it’ll get 57 mpg combined.

The concept originally appeared when IndyCar requested proposals for a new car for its series. The Deltawing promised speeds would be as fast as ever—about 230 mph at Indianapolis—with just 300 horsepower. An idea too radical for Indianapolis found a more welcoming reception in Le Mans, France, becoming a cult favorite. Viewed from above, it’s obvious why it’s called a Deltawing; the front track (the width between the front wheels) is tiny compared to the rear, with a pair of skinny tires that look far too small to go around corners quickly. Three quarters of the car’s weight is over the rear wheels, and there’s much less of that weight to begin with.

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Panoz isn’t the only company who think the Deltawing is a good idea. Last year, Nissan revealed the Bladeglider concept car, built to the same idea.

Links

  1. "Phoenix666" - mailto:spowell@climafy.com
  2. "the deltawing car" - http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/03/half-the-power-half-the-weight-all-the-fun-deltawing-road-cars-ahoy/

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