Re: RE: Italian Rebirth and James Dean (not connected except both non-Alfa)

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

The Brit magazine Evo has tested the Edonis and apparently it's very 
fast and handles very well. Somebody must think that there are mess of 
gazillionaires out there for all of these five-and-a-half figure 
supercars to flourish. Lessee, aside from Ferrari and Lamborghini, 
there's the Pagani, the Keonigsegg (Kings Egg? A supercar from Sweden? 
Now I've seen everything), the new VW group-built Bugatti (c'mon 
people. let the marque RIP) and from this side of the pond there's the 
new Saleen, soon to be joined by the all-new GT-40 clone from Ford. The 
Chippies in Southern California are sharpening their pencils even now 
as we speak.

BTW, Failure Analysis Inc. doing a computer analysis of Dean's crash 
from the CHP accident report, concluded that the sun was in Dean's 
eyes, and that he couldn't see Turnupseed's Ford -and that Dean wasn't 
speeding. Glasses or no, sun in eyes means poor visibility.

George Graves



On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 05:29  PM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:17:37 +0100
> From: "Nick Koleszar" <npk@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: Italian Rebirth and James Dean (not connected except both 
> non-Alfa)
>
> Other Italian marques resurrected:
>
> Mondial. FB (Fratelli Boselli) Mondial made motorcycles/scooters until
> sometime, I think, in the 80s. They have just been resurrected (well, 
> the
> name has) with the Mondial Piega.
> http://www.motobykz.co.uk/Mondial/Mondial.htm It uses a Honda V-twin 
> motor
> which is, ironically, basically a Ducati clone.
>
> Bugatti. Well, kind of. There is a new(ish) supercar (or is it 
> stupidcar?)
> called the Edonis by B Engineering. Again, irony enters into this, as 
> many
> of the key staff at B Engineering (oh, ok, there's probably only about 
> 8
> people there or something so they're all probably key) are from the 
> oldnew
> Bugatti firm, B Engineering are based next door to the oldnew Bugatti 
> plant
> and the Edonis uses left-over EB110 chassis. As the chassis only weigh
> something like 35kg, I suppose hefting over the wall wasn't too
> difficult.... Oh, and the engine is almost the same but I think uses 
> only 2
> turbos instead of 4.
> http://www.edonis.it/
>
> Talking of resurrection, I wish Alfa Romeo would rebuild their website 
> using
> intelligent web developers, not moronic web designers who insist on 
> using
> Flash. The old site was so nice and quick. The current one is just 
> plain
> flab. Any site that says "Loading....please wait" is really really 
> crap, and
> that's on a broadband connection.
>
> There. See, I knew I could manage to squeeze both Alfa Romeo content 
> AND a
> good moan into this posting.
>
> Further to this, how is it that BMW can get 333bhp and 269lb-ft from 
> the 3.2
> litre 6 cyl engine in their M3 but AR can only manage a comparatively 
> measly
> 250 bhp and 221 lb-ft from theirs?
>
> Lucky for us the Ultimate Driving Machine weighs 160kg more than the 
> GTA.
>
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that James Dean likely crashed and 
> died
> (1954 Porsche Spyder 550/1500 RS) because he was too vain to wear his
> eyeglasses and, as a result, couldn't see properly. Not sure how true 
> that
> is. On the other hand, even if he could see properly, he appears to 
> have
> been driving far too fast and you could hardly blame another motorist 
> for
> underestimating the Porsche's approach speed if Dean was driving the 
> way he
> apparently had been driving all afternoon.
> http://www.rebeljamesdean.homestead.com/porsche.html
>
> Hopefully, I'll have my Giulia Super back at home tomorrow which 
> should make
> up for not being able to make Le Mans this weekend.
>
> nk
>
> Nick Koleszar   koleszar@domain.elided
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