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Are AI thumbnaisl stupid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx2b...

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BMW X3M Competition vs police VW Touareg!

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Ferdinand Piech on Bentely and why it is a better brand than Rollls Royce. Auto.Boography from Piech.

"Bentley still lived from the legendary reputation created by the outstanding gentleman drivers—the “Bentley Boys”—through their racing victories in the 1920s.

With its emphasis on sport and aesthetics, the company was badly prepared for the economic crisis and in 1931 became a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce.

Bentley fans went underground intellectually and renewed themselves from generation to generation, regardless of what the parent company did with the marque and Bentley logos—which was usually not much.

Only in the 1980s did people begin placing greater emphasis on Bentley’s own identity again and rebuilt a sporting line—somewhat half-heartedly both for the market and in the eyes of the fan community.

A marque that can survive brilliantly for more than six decades under circumstances like that is priceless capital.

Anyone who wanted Bentley first had to swallow the entire Rolls-Royce Motor Cars company.

Personally, I regarded the Rolls-Royce marque as too conservative and, above all, too restricted in the model policy that was possible.

Under that name you could never make a coupé or a sports car; there was no opportunity for sophisticated understatement."

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"Generous engine power should not be an invitation to race. It should be pleasure derived from abundance."

Ferdinand Karl Piech.

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As we understood it in the 1990s, the platform fundamentally consisted of everything that did not determine the visible shape of the car:

* tyres,
* wheels,
* brakes,
* floor structure,
* exhaust system,
* fuel tank,
* engine,
* transmission,
* suspension,
* and logically all the wiring and pipes running between them.

What did not belong to the platform were the body, doors, boot lid, bonnet, windows, wings and the complete interior.

After competitors began giving the word “platform” a slightly derogatory tone, we looked for a term that would sound better in the media. We never found one.

More accurately—though perhaps even more confusingly—it would be the common-parts concept, from which a broader modular strategy eventually developed.

The most important fixed measure of a platform is the wheelbase, although even that can be varied through clever use of floor sections.

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Ferdinand Piech:

“When Röhrl came to Audi in 1984 and immediately won the Monte Carlo Rally, our ‘short one’ was already under development: the Sport quattro. This escalation had become necessary because of the challenge from Peugeot and Lancia. In its civilian form, the Sport quattro—with a shorter wheelbase than the normal quattro—was probably the finest performance car of its time.”

“As a rally car, however, Röhrl did not think very highly of it, and events proved him right. The shorter wheelbase could not make the car genuinely more agile while the heavy engine remained so far ahead of the front axle.”

Auto. Biographie. Piech 2001.

#audi #quattro #sportquattro

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Old 935 Street or new? Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N8b...

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When the car had a much nice interiour than the hotel where you stayed... 😂 Finally at home at M Performance and Miami Vice on Blue Ray and Chromecast on ventilated and massaged seats✔️💁🏼‍♂️🇺🇸🇸🇪🥇

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Koenigsegg Gemera first customer car: https://youtu.be/ycZ5TrLSHaM

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AMG owners now in the crosshaits? Citizen Vigilante was thought provoking...

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