"Autoeccentric" (autoeccentric)
08/23/2016 at 06:51 • Filed to: Busses, Double Decker, Bus Testing, OppositeLock, Top Gear, BBC
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"Autoeccentric" (autoeccentric)
08/23/2016 at 06:51 • Filed to: Busses, Double Decker, Bus Testing, OppositeLock, Top Gear, BBC | 1
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‘It’s a bus ride like no other’ the brave voice over explains.
‘Luckily, there are only dummies on board instead of passengers’.
Hold your many, many horses there pal, because shit is about to get real at the Millbrook test centre.
Tests include, 25% gradient hills, top speeds and braking.
Rob Taylor, test driver and obvious speed maniac, said
‘You’d be surprised what they’re capable of’.
In all seriousness we probably would. I for one not having the skill or the capablilty to drive one of these large machines I doth my cap at thee, Rob.
Blowing the lid on the whole operation, James Blackshaw tells the camera, ‘we’re really testing fuel efficiency’.
I think it’s rather good that there exists in the world a place where busses fight it out. The only thing missing is British Touring Car Championship drivers.
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kanadanmajava1
> Autoeccentric
08/23/2016 at 10:32 |
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The company I work for tests also busses. But we don’t have a test track and we mostly test them on a heavy chassis dynamometer. The exhaust emissions are our main interest. Millbrook is actually a competitor of our as they also do emission measurement tests on a chassis dynamometer.
Are our tests exciting to watch? Not really but still media has been covering us sometimes. The vehicles make some noises and they jerk back and forth. After the test we’ll see the exciting emission results. For an example this certain red bus made an NOx results of 8.8 g/km (an average over several tests with our most common test cycle).
8.8 g/km! That’s two units more than the other similar busses averaged in the same year!
