New Mercedes

[brain]

http://mbspy.bacosys.be/f400.htm

[TommyBoomfiger]

that is one ugly car. thankfully its just a research car, but the steering system is awesome. i would love to how well it sticks to the road in high speed cornering

[kimchicowboy]

interesting clothes the people are wearing.

[spigidygak]

Butt-ugly, reminds of that fugly Ford open wheel car they made a while back. . . believe it was given the nomenclature of "Indigo." Anyhow, thats some mad camber action they got going there though.

[ArkiStan]

duh-duh-duh!!! na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-BATMAN!!!

[Speedfreak]

Originally posted by ucbstan
duh-duh-duh!!! na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-BATMAN!!!

:heh: :heh:

Twas what I was thinking. :thumbup:

[Speedfreak]

Crazy... almost looks like it is broken. :P

http://mbspy.bacosys.be/f400/a2001f5090b760mbs.jpg

[TommyBoomfiger]

dont BMW and MB already use this steering system in thier cars at a lesser degree and with less technology? most car front wheels turn on a vertical axis, but benz's and bimmers wheels turn on a slightly angled axis. the more you turn, the more the wheel tilts.

[Jiffy John]

haha, but the batmobile was not open, sux to be wearing goggles everywhere...

[Jiffy John]

man, my parents weren't even in their teens when that came out...
plus, at least it had windshields unlike the "goggle-necessary" Mercedes.

[SpeedEng]

the front looks like a honda s2000 from the side shot

[Jiffy John]

hey, they got to mod the batmobile from something =)

[Nanotech9]

Originally posted by spigidygak
Butt-ugly, reminds of that fugly Ford open wheel car they made a while back. . . believe it was given the nomenclature of "Indigo." Anyhow, thats some mad camber action they got going there though.

damn you! the Indigo was an AWESOME car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :heh:

[Nanotech9]

Originally posted by TommyBoomfiger
dont BMW and MB already use this steering system in thier cars at a lesser degree and with less technology? most car front wheels turn on a vertical axis, but benz's and bimmers wheels turn on a slightly angled axis. the more you turn, the more the wheel tilts.

yes - the wheels on my 318 do slant quite a bit...

in fact, it looks like its broken or messed up when they're turned all the way out, but its now.

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by Nanotech9
yes - the wheels on my 318 do slant quite a bit...

in fact, it looks like its broken or messed up when they're turned all the way out, but its now.
my E36 3 series wheels dont tilt that much, but my dads old benz used to a lot, i always thought they were misaligned

[TommyBoomfiger]

after looking at this benz the indigo doesnt look that bad

http://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/machine/indigotop.jpghttp://formenmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/machine/indigorear.jpg

looks like a cross between a f1 racecar and a hot rod

[Apex]

Originally posted by TommyBoomfiger

my E36 3 series wheels dont tilt that much, but my dads old benz used to a lot, i always thought they were misaligned

The old Benz and BMW's just had extremely poor geometry.

[Blu]

Originally posted by TommyBoomfiger
dont BMW and MB already use this steering system in thier cars at a lesser degree and with less technology? most car front wheels turn on a vertical axis, but benz's and bimmers wheels turn on a slightly angled axis. the more you turn, the more the wheel tilts.

Actually, alot of larger American cars do this when they are turned to the extremes of the steering system. My parent's old Jeep used to do it, it almost looked like the wheel might just fall off.

Blu

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by Apex
The old Benz and BMW's just had extremely poor geometry.
well, by old i meant one he used to own, it was a W-124 E Class

[BrewMaster]

Originally posted by TheBluGuy


Actually, alot of larger American cars do this when they are turned to the extremes of the steering system. My parent's old Jeep used to do it, it almost looked like the wheel might just fall off.

Blu

I've noticed that on Jeeps. i didn't realize it was by design.

Now the real question is did the real batmobile have this fancy-schmancy steering design?

[Blu]

Originally posted by BrewMaster
Now the real question is did the real batmobile have this fancy-schmancy steering design?

Dude, the batmobile had EVERYTHING!!