figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Well, BMW do have cars built at Magna-Steyr in Graz, but not the MINI Countryman, which is built at Nedcar in the Netherlands. The upcoming replacement version will be built in Leipzig.
Pointless & impractical vehicles
- Thread starter PeteXXX
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Well, BMW do have cars built at Magna-Steyr in Graz, but not the MINI Countryman, which is built at Nedcar in the Netherlands. The upcoming replacement version will be built in Leipzig.
classic33
Leg End Member
Graz count?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
That was a layout used on the old pre-war Auto Union & Mercedes grand prix cars. So what goes around, comes around
classic33
Leg End Member
There was also their Eight Wheeler!That was a layout used on the old pre-war Auto Union & Mercedes grand prix cars. So what goes around, comes around
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
If that's actually real, then what the heck must they've been smoking?
classic33
Leg End Member
I've seen four wheels up front and four at the rear. Maybe the decided to see what advantages eight wheels would give them. Pit stops not included.
Ferrari 312T8, a mock up built to confuse folk.
Last edited:
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
At the rate at which Ferrari bungle pit stops, you'd really wonder what they were smoking
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Sunday 1st
Seen at Truckfest
Newark-on-Trent
Nottinghamshire
It was in the overflow car-park
No speed-bumps where the driver lives?
Seen at Truckfest
Newark-on-Trent
Nottinghamshire
It was in the overflow car-park
No speed-bumps where the driver lives?
Jody
Stubborn git
I don't get this current obsession with bagging cars. Pay all that money to sit it on it's arse after you've gone shopping?
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Those damned invisible elephants again. Get orf my VW.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
All the other cars have gone; maybe that's why it's still sitting there.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Right, just been nerding with my motor racing historian friend on the subject of 6-wheeled F1 cars. Here are the results of the combined Cambridgeshire and Gloucestershire juries:
The Ferrari 6-wheeler is genuine. That ran de Dion suspension to accommodate an arrangement like on the pre-war ERA and Auto Union hillclimb cars. Was only ever tested though.
Lotus never developed a 6-wheeler at all.
The March 6-wheeler is genuine, but it never turned a wheel in anger on a circuit until it popped up in historics recently. It was used for hillclimbing in the early 80s though.
The eight wheel Ferrari is a photoshop construct.
The Ferrari 6-wheeler is genuine. That ran de Dion suspension to accommodate an arrangement like on the pre-war ERA and Auto Union hillclimb cars. Was only ever tested though.
Lotus never developed a 6-wheeler at all.
The March 6-wheeler is genuine, but it never turned a wheel in anger on a circuit until it popped up in historics recently. It was used for hillclimbing in the early 80s though.
The eight wheel Ferrari is a photoshop construct.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I can remember the six wheeled Elf Tyrell as a wee bairn.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Brief pause while everyone digests the mental image of a mini Drago.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I would only have been 5 years old or so, but had a full beard.
