Bowler Nemesis

[d00df00d]

The Wildcat was crazy; this thing looks totally nuts!

http://www.bowler-offroad.com/Nem_2009/Nemesis_intro.htm

Does YOUR car have ram air cooled damper reservoirs? Didn't think so.

 

[Johnny]

Heck with the Nemesis, I want a TATRA.

 

[Schmoe]

?????

 

[Johnny]

It's listed on the website above right under the Land Rover logo.

 

[Schmoe]

What the baloney is a ram air cooled damper reservoir?
Miller oils? All I see is computer graphics, no "real" car or nothing. I don't understand the point of this post.

 

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted By: Schmoe
?????


They (Tatras) are the huge, monster, almost indestructable chase/service trucks for the rally raid teams' (Paris-Dakar, etc.) competition vehicles.

(If that was what you were questioning??)

 

[Ursae_Majoris]

Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: Schmoe
?????


They (Tatras) are the huge, monster, almost indestructable chase/service trucks for the rally raid teams' (Paris-Dakar, etc.) competition vehicles.

(If that was what you were questioning??)

Tatra also makes military vehicles and used to built passenger cars. Back in the 70's and 80's their passenger cars were worse than even Russian Ladas and Moskvitches.

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: Ursae_Majoris

Tatra also makes military vehicles and used to built passenger cars. Back in the 70's and 80's their passenger cars were worse than even Russian Ladas and Moskvitches.


They stopped building passenger cars about 10 years ago.

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: Schmoe
What the baloney is a ram air cooled damper reservoir?

You probably know dampers as "shock absorbers". It's technically an incorrect term so I'm doing my part to diminish its use.

Dampers contain oil. That's part of how they work.

Some dampers have remote reservoirs where they hold most of their oil. You see them a lot on race cars and heavy-duty off-road vehicles. It lets the dampers have more oil, makes them easier to adjust, and lets you place the oil reservoir anywhere you want to save unsprung mass etc.

With use, the oil in a damper gets hot. Dampers in off-road vehicles have long suspension strokes and see a LOT of action, so they will heat up their oil a lot more. Hot oil has a number of undesirable effects, so you want to keep that under control.

This vehicle has remote reservoir dampers with vents to keep them cool them.


Originally Posted By: Schmoe
All I see is computer graphics, no "real" car or nothing. I don't understand the point of this post.

Bowler makes really freakish rally cars. Super fast, super durable, etc. etc. Their last one was the Wildcat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLvlfAyduvA

The link is to a page describing their next vehicle, which is supposed to be even more insane.

 

[Ursae_Majoris]

Originally Posted By: XS650
Originally Posted By: Ursae_Majoris

Tatra also makes military vehicles and used to built passenger cars. Back in the 70's and 80's their passenger cars were worse than even Russian Ladas and Moskvitches.


They stopped building passenger cars about 10 years ago.


That's why I said used to... I think VW bought some of those factories to built their cars.

Tatra builds a lot more stuff today than they show on that website.

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: Ursae_Majoris
Originally Posted By: XS650
Originally Posted By: Ursae_Majoris

Tatra also makes military vehicles and used to built passenger cars. Back in the 70's and 80's their passenger cars were worse than even Russian Ladas and Moskvitches.


They stopped building passenger cars about 10 years ago.


That's why I said used to... I think VW bought some of those factories to built their cars.


Could be although VW" took over Skoda and it's factories and Skodas are good cars now, probably because they are mostly VW.

 

[sprintman]

Bowler is good (was on Top Gear) Miller Oils is good.

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: sprintman
Miller Oils is good.

Are they? I was going to post a thread and ask if anyone had heard of them.

 

[sprintman]

Oh yes, I was told about them a long time ago by somebody I respect as being the 'best of the best' but I kinda forgot. I'll do some study.

 

[dailydriver]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d

Bowler makes really freakish rally raid-type cars.


Correction in italics, as those things could not be run in the WRC.
(See, we can converse civilly when the topic is general performance auto enthusiast stuff, and not trade deficits/imbalances, U.S. job losses due to foreign product consumption, etc. How about that?!)

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Originally Posted By: d00df00d

Bowler makes really freakish rally raid-type cars.


Correction in italics, as those things could not be run in the WRC.

Good call. Thanks.


Originally Posted By: dailydriver
(See, we can converse civilly when the topic is general performance auto enthusiast stuff, and not trade deficits/imbalances, U.S. job losses due to foreign product consumption, etc. How about that?!)

I know! I might die of shock!