Ford's laser ignition...

[zektor]

Something that Ford and Liverpool University have been working on. Replacing spark plugs with laser fired ignition. A cleaner, more controlled burn of the air/fuel mixture will mean that less fuel can be used without risk of detonation. Thus improving economy and performance.

Perhaps we can keep our V8's after all... Woohoo!!!

Link...

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/07/15/gentlemen-start...

[zektor]

Just read on another site that Ford are looking to introduce this in their high end cars as early as 2011.

[Deluded]

Wonder if there will ever be a retrofit kit for other cars

[Marf]

Thats rather cool

[MondeoMan1981]

Will Alfa Romeo adopt this technology and do Twin Laser model

[lunchbox]

Did anyone else think this was going to be about hotwiring a 1.6 Capri?

[zektor]

lunchbox said:

Did anyone else think this was going to be about hotwiring a 1.6 Capri?

Actually, I did think that after I had posted it!

[zektor]

Marf said:

Thats rather cool

Totally agree...

Anything the manufacturers can do to already improve current engine technology is a bonus.

There was me worrying about the demise of the V8 engine... when a technology such as this can ensure that muscle bound V8's remain with us just that little bit longer... Superb!

[DennisTheMenace]

only one thing to say .......

sweeeeeet

About time ford started innovating again instead of following like sheep.



And yeas i thought it would be somthing to do with a capri laser too

[Tunku]

Won't it burn a hole through the combustion chamber?

[shouldbworking]

That is a great piece of tech, but isnt there going to be some sort of lens thats going to get caked in soot deposits?

[mybrainhurts]

If you take one out at the roadside, and point it at a traffic warden, will she melt...?

[Rollcage]

DennisTheMenace said:

About time ford started innovating again instead of following like sheep.

I didnt think Ford had been particularly innovative in the past (with a couple of notable exceptions - mass production and the Sierra spring to mind)

I'm ready to be corrected though!

[mybrainhurts]

Having today learned that a Mondeo estate number plate lamp titchy plastic lens costs £9.37...

I do not wish to know how much these lasermabobs are going to cost...

[Trooper2]

mybrainhurts said:

Having today learned that a Mondeo estate number plate lamp titchy plastic lens costs £9.37...

I do not wish to know how much these lasermabobs are going to cost...

That's why they have scrap yards, so you don't have to pay 9.37 GBP for a number plate lamp titchy plactic lens....

[Gizmo!]

Rollcage said:

DennisTheMenace said:

About time ford started innovating again instead of following like sheep.

I didnt think Ford had been particularly innovative in the past (with a couple of notable exceptions - mass production and the Sierra spring to mind)

I'm ready to be corrected though!

The Cortina?

In fact... the first Transit? Much as what Top Gear says is frequnetly as touch off, the Transit really did break the stranglehold of the haulage companies, and they were ridiculously fast for their day.

[toothrot]

first car with abs

[GingerWizard]

toothrot said:

first car with abs

I was going to tell you that was not true. But it is, so i won't. (just wiki'd it and was massivly surprised to find out your very much correct in a general term. Fergerson P99 (race car) and Jenson FF where first but not a general release.)

Thankyou for enlightening me, one for the pub quiz i think.

[toothrot]

believe it was the last shape of the Granadas prior to the horrible Scorpio

I believe in 1971 Ford released the first fleet of cars fitted with working airbags. I know they go back to the 50s but these were the first real first gen airbags as we know

[GingerWizard]

toothrot said:

believe it was the last shape of the Granadas prior to the horrible Scorpio

cockon buddy --->

wiki said:

Anti-lock braking systems were first developed for aircraft. An early system was Dunlop's Maxaret system, introduced in the 1950s and still in use on some aircraft models. This was a fully mechanical system. It saw limited automobile use in the 1960s in the Ferguson P99 racing car, the Jensen FF and the experimental all wheel drive Ford Zodiac, but saw no further use; the system proved expensive and, in automobile use, somewhat unreliable. The first car (worldwide) to have ABS fitted as standard (across the entire range) was the Ford Granada Mk 3 (of 1985).

Edited by GingerWizard on Friday 17th July 02:21