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Club Car's XRT1550 4x4 personal utility vehicle (UTV). Beginning in 2008 and 2009, Club Car entered into the utility vehicles (UTV) market with its XRT line of personal utility vehicles. These ranged from the XRT800 4x2 UTV to XRT1550 4x4 UTV with the ability to add work attachments to the vehicle.
In car tuning culture, an engine swap is the process of removing a car's original engine and replacing it with another. This may be a like-for-like replacement, or to install a non-factory specification engine.
Blakely Auto Works (also called Bernardi Auto Works in later years) was a manufacturer of automobiles and of kit cars, working from premises located in a series of US midwest communities, including Princeton, Wisconsin, in the 1970s and 1980s. Blakely produced several kit car models, the Bantam, Bearcat, and Bernardi.
The engine, fuel tank and gearbox are then removed and replaced with an electric motor, batteries and an inverter. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] If the donor vehicle is a hybrid, the driveshaft can be retained also, as it has already been designed to work with electric car batteries and power delivery systems.
In 1960, a Turner 950 Sports, with Alexander-tuned engine with a cross-flow cylinder head, was tested by the British Motor magazine. It had a top speed of 95.7 mph (154.0 km/h), and could accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 13.6 seconds. A fuel consumption of 36.0 miles per imperial gallon (7.8 L/100 km; 30.0 mpg ‑US) was recorded. The test ...
The first Eurocco design was an attempt by Mike Carlton to produce a kit car with 'family-friendly' features, such as conventional doors, 2+2 seating and front luggage compartment. It was based on the VW Beetle floorpan and engine, and required parts from Ford and Fiat production cars. Only about three kits were made, in 1981.
The Mercedes-Benz M271 engine is a straight-4 automobile piston engine family used in the 2000s (decade). All M271 engines are built in Untertürkheim , Germany . The family has a cast aluminium engine block and aluminium DOHC cylinder heads with 4 valves per cylinder and variable valve timing and a coil-on-plug ignition system.
In 1984 RW Kit Cars took over Perry Automotive Development's Karma project. Perry had been manufacturing the Karma, which was designed by Custom Classics of California, since 1982. It is a fibreglass copy of the Ferrari Dino 246 GT , built around the floor pan of a Volkswagen Beetle , a popular choice of donor vehicle at the time.