"MegaSuper" (megasuper)
06/08/2015 at 06:07 • Filed to: None
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"MegaSuper" (megasuper)
06/08/2015 at 06:07 • Filed to: None | 3
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Didn’t see this anywhere else on Oppo or Jalopnik, so here it is:
(Kinja seems to be having a fit with the link, so if you don’t see anything here, just go to Car and Driver’s Blog, the article is called “The Continental: A Toyota You Don’t Know of Loses Its V-12, and a Familiar Audi Loses Its Rear.)
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Love how it looks in that picture. What a timeless vehicle. So the V12 is being replaced by a hybrid V8. I guess it had to happen sooner or later.
So now there’s one less country on this Earth that produces a V12.
kanadanmajava1
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 06:18 |
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Those are sad news. Century was so nice yet pretty much unobtainable car.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 06:19 |
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:’(
traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 06:21 |
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Only 5 V12-producing countries left.
Britain (Rolls, Aston)
Germany (Merc, BMW)
Italy (Lambo, Ferrari)
China (Honqi) look it up!
Spain (Tramontana) look it up too!
beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 06:38 |
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I’ll make one by strapping two ford barras together.
Kind if like how Ford made the aston Martin v12 out of two duratecs.
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MegaSuper
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
06/08/2015 at 06:41 |
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Good post, and I adore Tramontana, but I must say I feel that’s only accurate if we’re talking about “Countries that produce cars that feature V12s.”
If we’re talking about countries that actually manufacture the V12s themselves, then I think there are only 4, as we can’t give Tramontana credit: It appears that their V12 comes from Mercedes: http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/24/rev…
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MegaSuper
> beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
06/08/2015 at 06:43 |
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Well, I don’t know how rare this is (AFAIK BMW V12s are like this too), but on the Century, each bank of cylinders has its own ECU, so if one bank fails, the car can continue running on 6 cylinders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_GZ…
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p71donutmobile
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 06:47 |
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I will just leave this here.
spanfucker retire bitch
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
06/08/2015 at 06:49 |
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BMW still makes V12s?
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traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/08/2015 at 06:52 |
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Yes in the 760Li.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
06/08/2015 at 07:05 |
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Huh, I had thought they switched everything over to TT V8s.
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beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 07:32 |
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Yeah I’d read that before. There’s an old century I see at one of the supermarkets I go to occasionally. Smaller than I thought they’d be.
I think some rovers did that on the v8’s too
MultiplaOrgasms
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/08/2015 at 07:42 |
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Ahem, RR Phantom, Ghost, Wraith, BMW 760Li.
Bluecold
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/08/2015 at 07:47 |
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Yup, N73 and N74. Which are also the powerplants in the Rolls-Royces.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> Bluecold
06/08/2015 at 08:09 |
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Oh really? I knew Rolls used shared chassis with BMW, but I didn’t realize the engines were shared as well. I thought those were Rolls specific. Huh.
MRtwo
> MegaSuper
06/08/2015 at 09:14 |
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Is each bank balanced individually or using balance shafts? Just wondering what the vibrations are like on one bank and how safe it is to run like that.