What i like about Americans

[Wlfgng]

Mind you everyone had alot of trouble with mine...aparently Aussies talk to fast, and use too much slang.

just the accent.. a lot of Aussies stay here in the winter and I've gotten used to the slang but one thing that got me for a while was when selling my car,, they asked how many moiles were on it...

MOILES???   hehe

[straffo]

Missed this thread

An Americain is (in france) :  1/2 baguette filled with 2*100g steack +(2 slices of cheese optional) +  fries + mayonnaise + onion ...

The local version of the hambuger


I'm a canibal I love eating Américains

[lazs2]

skuzzy... cosworth built an engine for Vega that was very fast but... didn't hold up in a street driven car.   They have done some work for Ltus that was high efficiency but... somewhat unreliable..  

They do have one good engine tho... the Rover V8... oh, wait... that's a Buick....  they did have the very reliable Jensen interceptor v8 uh... no... that was a chrysler.... uh...

nevermind.
lazs

[Skuzzy]

The Aston Martin DB's V-12 is a Cosworth design.

Practically every Ford V-8 engine that won at Indy 500 was a Cosworth design.

There are a couple of F1 engines that are Cosworth designed too.  Can't recall the company they operate under though.

Most of the good stuff is not built by them, but designed by them for others.  They do supply head and block assemblies to various auto companies around the world.

To be sure, they have had some bone head designs, but they also have more than a couple of winners going for them.
Ford still uses them for head design for the HO parts they sell for the Windsor blocks.

[midnight Target]

Very nice ... thanks Bluedog, and you too Blitz

[beet1e]

Skuzzy - didn't one of the Corvettes have a Cosworth engine, or an engine that had Cosworth components like pistons?

AFAIK, all the Jaguar engines were designed and built in the UK.

The only V8 engines that I know of that were built here were the Rolls-Royce/Bentley series, Aston Martin, Triumph Stag (a terrible engine), the Rover/Buick that Lazs mentioned, and the 2˝ litre Daimler.

[Dowding]

Cosworth also put engines in the Ford Sierra etc in the 80s. Superb engines from a superb company.



Back in the day, these were the thing to have. Fairly affordable too.

British racing design permeates most formulas in the world and dominates F1. The Ferrari F1 cars are designed and race managed by Brits.

[Skuzzy]

Not sure beet1e.  I know General Motors has used Cosworth, but cannot recall where the engines landed.

Cosworth specializes in low volume, high performance designs, which is why Ford, Jaguar, Aston-Martin, and several other boutique car makers use them.
Ford has used Cosworth designs for a long time.  A lot of engine consultation goes on between Ford and Cosworth.  I don't know why Ford has not bought them yet.

[lazs2]

no... GM used the cosworth in the ill fated Vega and uses some cosworth engineering in it's racing program.   you might be thiking of the old zr1(?) not sure of the designation, corvette that used a motor built by Mercury outboard.
lazs

[beet1e]

Hard to believe that Britain was once the biggest car exporter in the world - c1950.

I worked for Honda in the early 1990s, and they built an engine plant on the site formerly occupied by South Marston airfield near Swindon. Aluminium ingots would be melted down and poured into a cast. After cooling down, the engine was all in one piece, and the cylinder head had to be cut off the engine block. Then they put in the spark plugs, valve gear, crankshaft, connecting rods and pistons, and electrics. All that remained to be done was to put oil in it, and start it up! And most of the engines built this way would start first time. All that was missing was a supply of properly built Rover cars to put the engines in. And hey-presto, the Honda Concerto rose from the ashes of the Rover 213.

[Furball]

Originally posted by Nifty
Blitz, thanks!  I might hit you up on that even though you don't like soccer.  (amazing, considering you have a fantastic domestic league in Germany too!)

Furball, yeah, you definitely had the tougher group to play out of, but you have to admit, going up 3-0 on Portugal (who was a top 5 team at the time) in the first half of the opening game was pretty impressive.  We had a let down against Poland, but played extremely well in a 2-0 win over Mexico, who had finished ahead of Italy in group play!  We lost to Germany 1-0, in a game in which just about everyone agrees we outplayed them.  Oliver Kahn was the man of that game, stopping several sure goals.  Also, there was an inadvertant handball on a German defender in the second half that kept the ball from fully crossing the goal line.  It was actually hard to tell if the ball was fully in or not, however, even an inadvertant handball that gives a player an advantage (in this case stopping a goal) can be called for a foul.  A PK would almost assuredly tied the game (tho who knows, as Friedel stopped 2 PKs himself over the 5 games played!)

Heh, yeah, Seaman was a bit off his line and that cross turned into a goal.  I don't think Rivaldo (that's who scored, right?) was shooting, but he got lucky.  In our Q-Final, Reyna almost caught Kahn off his line from about 50 yards out, but the ball was wide.  That woulda been a hilarious equalizer!  

In our friendly this weekend, Landon Donovan did his Michael Owen impersonation with a 50 yard run through 2 defenders and left a 3rd yards behind and slotted one past the keeper.  We might have ourselves a world class player in the making.  

Yeah you did very well! there were a few english clubs interested in landon donovan, problem with americans playing in the premiership is unless they hold a passport with dual nationality (to an EU country) they require a work permit to play here. Which means they have to play a minimum number of games each season before it can be renewed.  I think that was the problem why Everton didn't finalise a deal for Brian McBride.

As for Brad Friedel, i know he is a very good goalkeeper, and he is having an amazing season for blackburn this year.  It was Ronaldinho who scored the lucky goal against england.

I am an Arsenal supporter, and if there is a better defensive midfielder than Patrick Vieira or forward than Thierry Henry - i would love to see them

[Furball]

Originally posted by NOD2000
I can't say much for beet1e's laughing; exept I have never seen a engine come out of The Uk that was worth the money i could get out of it at a scrap heap. None the less a car.

TVR
Aston Martin
Jaguar (and before u say thats american, they are made by british, designed by british just funded by ford)
Bentley
Ford RS Cosworth's
McLaren
Lotus
Lister
Caterham
A.C. (Company Shelby brought the licsense off to make Cobra's)
M.G.
Noble
Land Rover

+ many more
are you stupid or something?[