This car is a strange mixture of typically Russian solutions and design as well as borrowings from "Western" patterns. Some external details remain in dissonance with the "transit" body line. It will be difficult to find a car with such a rich chrome …
Month: June 2014
Edag 2000
While the concept of the popular car has undergone many changes, representative vehicles, destined for the powerful of this world, was designed over the years to be the same, conservative fashion. Classic drive systems, three-box bodies with large glass area, skóra …
Maserati Buran
It was designed in the Italian workshops Italdesign, a functional prototype was created in the American department of the studio, in California. This is not a coincidence, because Buran is to create a vision of a vehicle that meets the requirements of a wealthy clientele of both continents. It should therefore offer the same comfort in both the fast …
Lexus Landau
Already in 1994 r. Italdesign stylists, working for half years 70. the problem of space rationalization, took up the challenge, preparing a concept car called Landau, referring to the exclusive horse-drawn vehicles of the last century. They used the Lexus GS floorboard in it 300, about the spacing …
Peugeot 309
IX’85: premiere of the five-door version; autumn '86: three-door version, new diesels and GTI with power 130 KM; ’89: gentle face lifting of the bodywork, new engines; '93: the end of production.
► Technical data
bodies: 3- and 5-door; dim. 4050/1630/1380 mm; poj. trunk 395/1280 l.…
Air conditioning increases fuel consumption
Manufacturers of air conditioners and cars will certainly fight to reduce fuel consumption. Behr specialists have calculated, that in Germany with an average way of exploitation (the influence of climatic conditions and the realities of road traffic was taken into account) the car drives annually 15 000 km and consumes at …
Peugeot 205
I’83: premiere of the 5-door version; ’84: 3-door version. i GTI; ’86: convertible; ’87: stylistic changes, ’88: new engines; IV ’89: automatic transmission; '91: turbodiesel; ’95: end of sales in Poland.
► Technical data
bodies: hatchback 3- and 5-door; dim. 3705/1570/1350 mm, poj. …
Multi-zone air conditioning
The interiors of modern vehicles are still very poorly thermally insulated, a quick improvement can be brought by the use of double glazing with an insulating layer of air between them. The solution has been known for years, but it does have two major disadvantages in motor vehicles. The first is the higher cost …
Peugeot 106
VIII’91: premiere of the three-door version; ’92: a five-door version goes into production; '93: new engines; III ’96: stylistic and design changes. Sports versions: Rally, XSi i S16.
► Technical data
bodies: 3- and 5-door. hb.; dim. 3564/1590/1369 mm, poj. trunk 215/953 l; …
History of air conditioning
The first heating systems appeared in cars in the 1930s, over time, they were improved with fans supplying external air to the cabin. Air conditioning came to cars in the early 1950s, and no one is surprised, that it initially settled almost exclusively …