Car Transmission

Rising steps of the Mercury: -

In the beginning it had been stated that the origin of the Mercury was inspired from the whale sized version of the Thunderbird car which was launched by Ford. But there are many surprises which were related to the development and history of this American sports car. The first model of the Mercury was the “Pony car” which was manufactured by NASCAR and this car gave a mind blowing impact in the racing circuit of the Trans-Am Automobile.

Initially Lincoln- Mercury was the founder of the ford motor corporation which was believed to be the luxurious car of its time. This person had devised the idea of designing, developing and marketing the sports cars which are small in size. The first car step was taken in the February 1963 in which the idea of dealing with the sports vehicles was made and car models were sold in the automobile market of North America.

After this next step of success of Mercury was the merging of the company with the European company Jaguar which was also known for the famous sports car. In the time period of 1967, Lincoln Mercury turned his hands to the Bud Moore in order to deal with the racing cars required for the SCCA Trans-Am Championship. It proved to be a great success for the Mercury as the company driver’s got the second position in the race and till now Mercury had established itself as the brand name in the sporting cars. After this, the company was able to grab the NASCAR Grand Touring Championship.

Some of the features of the Mercury sports car: -

The best thing about the cars of the Mercury is the structure of the cars which are constituted with the help of the elegant sheet metal. Besides this, the car models are also supporting the solid real axle and excellent front suspension together with 4-leaf springs. The base of the car is 189 cubic and the engine is of V-8 type which of 200bho, but the real performance of the car models can be noticed in the V-8 engine which is of base 390 cubic inch and is of 320bhp. Also the features of the car models include the power brakes and the perfect handling package together with the combination of the GT wheels.

- The main attraction is the 2.3L Duratek I4 or also the V-6 engine of Duratek 24 valves.

- Audiophile® Sound System which composed of FM/AM/6-discs CD changer with the support of the MP3

- 6-speed automatic o 5-speed manual transmission.

- Seats trimmed of leather with moon roof.

- Comfort package which includes power seats, doors and windows and air conditioning.




By: lucia falicity

Nowadays, Lotus Company is getting famous for its brand new sports car which is known as the Lotus Elise. The Lotus Elise is known to be the creation of the person named as Max David who is from London. The founder of the Lotus Company is Colin Chapman. The dream of this person was to manufacture a car which must be light weight and also has the superb performance. This dream was made true by the Max David.

Features of the new cars of Lotus: -

The engine of the new cars of the Lotus is modest but still it is able to provide the light weight structure to the car which provides the fantastic performance to the car. The shape of the models is created in such way that the focus must remain on the driving and dynamics of the model. This is the main reason the Lotus had designed the high performance and the good looking car. When the company launched the new models of the sports cars, then it gained a lot of attention because of the striking design and low weight.

The first model of the sports car of the Lotus Company is the Lotus Elise which was released in the month of September in 1995. And the company had gained so much response that they had launched the 2 main types of this model: the first model is of the Lotus Elise of Series 1 and other is of Series 2.

- The first model of the Lotus which was launched is of 680kg which is around 1500 lb. Besides this, the driving of the car is absolutely amazing because the models of the car have the perfect ability to accelerate, corner and brake. Due to this reason the weight of the cars can be compared to the Porsche. Another interesting fact is about the engine of the car. The Porsche was having the engine of 201bhp which is around 149 kW, but the cars of the Lotus was working brilliant on 120bhp or 89 kW.

- After the release and the success of the first model of the sports car from Lotus, the company then released another lighter version of the same model which had an amazing weight of 675 kg or 1488 lb. After this, Lotus launched another model which came to known as Lotus Elise 111S which proved to be much faster than the previous models. The main point of attraction of this car was the engine of the car which was known as the VVC or Variable Valve Control engine. The development of the engine was done from the Rover K series. Also the seats of the new models of the car were filled with extra padding.




By: Brian Hamsen