DrivingEnthusiast.net Prior Blog Posts by Date DRIVING: that's what it's ALL ABOUT! A blog and website for automotive driving enthusiasts, featuring my interests as I see them: news and opinion about manufacturers of interest, significant enthusiast cars, and driving them hard and well. June 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   May   Jul RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Monday, June 05, 2006    Top Gear tests the Prodrive P2   Top Gear tested the Prodrive P2 concept on a recent episode... a car that will never and can never go into production. Why not? First, Prodrive is not in the production business. This is an example of their engineering capability but without production capability and capacity (and investors) the idea of a production P2 is impossible.  Secondly, and even more impossible to overcome, is the "anti-lag" system in the turbocharger. In order to reduce lag, fuel is directly injected into the turbo housing to generate enough volume to keep the impeller spinning. Injecting "raw" fuel into the housing is certainly incompatible with emisisons requirements... as shown by the flame that exits the rear of the P2 at every shift. This is the same system used in WRC cars. So enjoy it while you can... vicariously thru TopGears test. http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/thisweek.shtml Note that the car didn't do all that well with the Stig... but it is just a concept. And, thanks to YouTube, you can see the full test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0hDqlASKHc View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Mitsubishi Evo | Media: Top Gear & Jeremy Clarkson | Video Compendium Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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