Mad About Cars

So yes, we all love drifting / power-sliding / broad sliding, whatever you want to call it!

And if you can actually drift across one end of a car-park to another then hands down to you but what actually goes on with the car when in this breath-taking motion???

Well, were about to find out!!…

The word ‘drifting’ obviously comes from a Japanese derivative (dorifuto sōkō?) and looks a bit like this – (ドリフト走行) – and is it surprising given our far eastern friends are the brains of all rapid technology!
And all the fun!!

They are masters in producing technology their forte being ‘engines’ and equally supplying the support gear needed to be able to control the car in adverse situations, and electrifying the crowd!

A real drift is where a driver will intentionally over-steer a vehicle through turns which results in loss of traction at the rear wheels. At the same time they are still controlling the vehicle whilst exiting the corner at high speed.

A car is said to be drifting when the rear slip angle is greater than the front slip angle prior to the corner apex, and the front wheels are pointing in the opposite direction to the turn (e.g. car is turning left, wheels are pointed right or vice versa).

The driver is always controlling these factors, and that’s what makes drifting an art!!! We love it!!!

Today im going to look over the art of Left-Foot Breaking!

A more commonly known action in motor racing, however very popular in a range of driving methods…

This technique allows drivers to operate a vehicle’s brake pedal using the left foot – as opposed to the right foot, which is usually naturally bound to the break and acceleration pedals.

The advantage of this method is ‘time saving’, as in racing, – every second counts!

By leaving the left foot free to operate the brakes and using the right foot only to accelerate, it allows the driver to gain fractions of time where it would usually be lost during the change from throttle to brake pedals. These are the minimal, but very beneficial effects when taking part in events utilising time trials and so on – like Sports Racing and Rallying, and technically, it is also possible to control the weight distribution of the vehicle when travelling, particularly cornering at high speeds through the left foot braking method, thus also saving seconds!!!…

Well look whats just cropped up from the depths! A new Bugatti! Wow!!!

As a celebration of 100 years, a hot new edition Bugatti delivers the ‘Veyron Bleu Centenaire’ for its 100^th Anniversary!

And what a monster she is!

With combinations ‘SprintBlue Matt’ and ‘SprintBlue Gloss’ two-tone paint scheme exterior boasting a traditional blue engine bay, its combined with ‘Snow-White’ leather quilted interior!
Well, mmm, sounds like a hammock!

Not to mention extra’s like rear view cameras!

The car is set to be in the region of 1.35 Million Euro exclusive taxes and transportation.

So what you waiting for folks!!!

Here we have the beautiful Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.

Jointly developed by two of the longest serving motor industry manufacturers – Mercedes Benz and McLaren Automotive, this is one of the most substantial cars on the face of the planet

‘SLR’ – standing for ‘Sport, Leicht, Rennsport’ (Sport, Light, Racing) says it all in terms of the cars purpose. It has a front-mid engine placement arrangement governing an automatic gearbox resulting the Sport Light Effect.

Its rivals are in catagories such as the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish.

Around 3,500 are still in the process of being built over a 7 year span since 2003, and this machine, will set you back in the region of £300,000 smackaroonies!……

Europe’s largest car manufacturer has been taken over – Yes, VolksWagen! And by who? You’d never guess? Porsche!!!!

We ask why? Why would this small run family business want a stake in a company like VW? Well, it must bedue to VW’s manufacturing capabilities and technological know-how?

Porsche is currently occupying roughly 50% of the shares in VolksWagen but are looking to increase that to 75% having full financial control. Not bad going considering VW is one of largest companies in the world.

The only bad news for Porsche is that oddly, VW own shares in truck maker ‘Scania’ which Porsche will have to take over says the Sweedish Law, but they are not interested at all, and will therefore only put in a minimum bid, and who blames them!