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Chicago Auto Show: Best Cutaways of the Show
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Alex L. Dykes
(IC: employee)
Published: February 8th, 2013
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What is the best part of a modern auto show? It’s not the constant running from one press release to another. It certainly isn’t fighting your way to the front of the throng to get some blurry photos of the latest sports car. It isn’t even the airport-grade lunches and cheap booze. No, it’s the cutaways. Nowhere else will you find the sheer quantity and quality of mechanical cutaways as an auto show. There are engine cutaways, transmission cutaways, and cutaways of entire vehicles. Click past the jump to see 28 of our favorites from the Chicago Auto Show.
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Published February 8th, 2013 5:06 PM
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- Analoggrotto More useless articles.
- Spamvw Did clears to my '02 Jetta front markers in '02. Had to change the lamps to Amber. Looked a lot better on the grey wagon.I'm guessing smoked is illegal as it won't reflect anymore. But don't say anything about my E-codes, and I won't say anything about your smoked markers.
- Theflyersfan OK, I'm going to stretch the words "positive change" to the breaking point here, but there might be some positive change going on with the beaver grille here. This picture was at Car and Driver. You'll notice that the grille now dives into a larger lower air intake instead of really standing out in a sea of plastic. In darker colors like this blue, it somewhat conceals the absolute obscene amount of real estate this unneeded monstrosity of a failed styling attempt takes up. The Euro front plate might be hiding some sins as well. You be the judge.
- Theflyersfan I know given the body style they'll sell dozens, but for those of us who grew up wanting a nice Prelude Si with 4WS but our student budgets said no way, it'd be interesting to see if Honda can persuade GenX-ers to open their wallets for one. Civic Type-R powertrain in a coupe body style? Mild hybrid if they have to? The holy grail will still be if Honda gives the ultimate middle finger towards all things EV and hybrid, hides a few engineers in the basement away from spy cameras and leaks, comes up with a limited run of 9,000 rpm engines and gives us the last gasp of the S2000 once again. A send off to remind us of when once they screamed before everything sounds like a whirring appliance.
- Jeff Nice concept car. One can only dream.
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Best cutaway engine in the world is at the Edvard-Hazy Smithsonian Aviation Museum in Dulles Virginia. The Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radial aircraft engine. It's a 4 row, 28 cylinder aircooled engine displacing 71.5 liters! Over 4000 HP. Used in many military and civil transports between 1945 and the advent of the jet age. It's amazing to me that the engineers that designed this complex machine did not have computers, just slide rules and log-log paper.
what happens to these cutaways? Someone would love to buy one for a man cave.