An old diesel bus is living a new life as a smart camper. In many cases, building your own camper van tailored to your preferences and needs is a better solution than going for an off-the-shelf product from a big company. If you are on a tight budget, you can save tons of money by installing just the features you are going to use without having to pay extra money for unwanted equipment. And when you know what you are doing, the results could be awesome. Take for example this 1998 Volkswagen Transporter which started its life as a standard cargo bus somewhere in Germany but is now living its second life as a homemade camper van in Bulgaria. The owner wanted to build something that’s smart and easy to maintain without breaking the bank, and we love the result. The whole build took him about seven months from A to Z including full vehicle respray, interior modifications, and engine maintenance. Gallery: 1998 VW Transporter camper 22 Photos …
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Herta’s son is rising
The MSA Formula, certified by the FIA and run to Formula 4 regulations, is Britain’s replacement for the legendary Formula Ford Championship. The Mygale chassis, Hankook tires and Ford EcoBoost 1.6-liter engines of 150hp are common to all teams, and they race at famous tracks such as Brands Hatch, Donington Park and Silverstone. Driving for Carlin, America’s Colton Herta scooped four wins, three poles and eight fastest laps this past season. And that latter figure is interesting; it suggests an ace driver who was less familiar with the tracks and the cars yet by race day had the mental data and experience he needed to find the sweet spot. His proud father, former Indy car race winner and now IndyCar team owner Bryan Herta, acknowledges that his son has matured to a phenomenal degree throughout 2015. It’s not quite like Colton went to England a boy and came back a man, but it’s not far off. “He moved to England by himself, still only 14 years old,” says Bryan, “and I only …
How does Formula 4 help the U.S. open-wheel scene?
No one’s saying the Mazda Road To Indy is a bad thing, and no one would say that confusing the U.S. junior open-wheel market is a good thing. But many believe there is a niche – maybe more than one – for those young drivers whose ultimate aim is either the Verizon IndyCar Series or Formula 1. Last week we got the Honda perspective on SCCA’s Formula 4 and Formula Lites from HPD’s motorsports manager T.E. McHale – but how about the Sports Car Club of America, which will run the U.S. branch of Formula 4 and also sanctions Formula Lites? At the PRI Show, the Crawford Composites-built US Formula 4 car was put on public view and adjacent to it sat the Formula Lites machine (also a Crawford product) with its new-for-2016 engine – the two-liter turbocharged four-cylinder unit from the Honda Civic Type R. It’s detuned from 306hp to approximately 260hp for the Lites machine, and it comes devoid of turbo for the 158hp F4 car, which also doesn’t have the FLites’ diffuser. Robert Clarke …
Official Documentary On 7-Time World Champion Michael Schumacher To Debut On Netflix In September
For a while a documentary on modern F1 great, Michael Schumacher has been in the works. It was ready at the end of 2019 but was stuck in limbo as it awaited the approval of the Schumacher family and then the pandemic delayed it further. And now it has been announced that it is going to debut on Netflix on September 15. "Racing driver, sports icon, legend. The first film supported by his family gives unique insights into the life of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher: SCHUMACHER. From September 15. Only on Netflix," posted Michael Schumacher's official Instagram page. Of course, the legendary driver met with an unfortunate accident in December 2013 and since then has been assumed to be in a vegetative state being in a coma for the longest time after his skiing incident. This is the first time the members of the Schumacher family will speak about the legendary driver who continues to be in medical care and is assumed to be vegetative mostly. …
SEMA 2017: Hennessy Venom F5 Revealed — Is This The Bugatti Chiron’s Worst Nightmare?
Home Four wheelers oi-Dennis James By Dennis James Updated: Thursday, November 2, 2017, 19:10 [IST] American tuning house and hypercar manufacturer Hennesey Performance has revealed the Venom F5 at SEMA 2017 in Las Vegas. The F5 in the name comes from the classification given to the most powerful tornados on the planet on the Fujita scale. Like the storm, the Venom F5's claim to fame is its speed, with Hennesey Performance claiming a top speed of 301mph (484kph), which would make it the first road car with a top speed of over 300mph. There are three major reasons behind the Venom F5's insane top speed - power, lightness and low coefficient of drag. Providing the power is a 7.4-litre twin-turbo V8 that cranks out 1,600bhp and 1,763Nm of torque which is sent to the rear wheels via a 7-speed single-clutch gearbox that is operated using paddle shifters. Trending On DriveSpark: Tata Tigor AMT Launched In …
‘Death’s Door’: A clever and fun Zelda homage
"Death's Door" Developed by: Acid Nerve Published by: Devolver Digital Available on: PC, Xbox One - - - When a creative work bears an obvious resemblance to a well-known predecessor it runs the risk of being labeled derivative. However, if the work in question stirs us we often consider it a love letter to its inspirational sources. Happily, "Death's Door," the new action adventure game about a hard-working, soul-reaping crow is very much a love letter to the old Zelda games. Its mechanics are satisfying in a chip-off-the-old block way, its visuals are a delight and its story line is touched with assured, easygoing humor. Such qualities are even more impressive when you find out that "Death's Door" is the product of a two-person collaboration , Mark Foster and David Fenn . At its start, a bus rolls into a station and a textbox at the bottom of the screen announces, "Now arriving at Reaping Commission Headquarters." The scene, rendered in black-and-white, has a noir vibe. …
Lotus Exige Race 380 is too hardcore for the road
The track-only model cuts a serious amount of weight to boost performance over its road-going sibling. The talented engineers from Hethel have a healthy obsession for removing as much weight as possible from both their road and race cars. Case in point, they’ve managed to find a way to make the recently introduced Exige Sport 380 even lighter. At 1,110 kilograms (2,447 pounds), the road-legal version wasn’t exactly fat to begin with, but now its track-only counterpart has managed to drop below the 1,000-kg mark. Without any fluids in it, the Exige Race 380 tips the scales at a mere 998 kg (2,200 lbs). Go for the optional titanium exhaust system and the weight will drop by a further 10 kg (22 lbs). Motivation is provided by the same Toyota-derived supercharged 3.5-liter V6 engine with 380 horsepower (hence the model’s name) and 410 Newton-meters (302 pound-feet) of torque as in the Exige Sport 380. While the latter gets a six-speed manual gearbox and an optional six-speed auto, …
1975 Saab 95 V4 Micro Camper Is Mega Cool
The green color is great and very 1970s. The Ford Transit and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter are the most common starting points for creating a smallish camper these days, but Paul Lucking has a very different vehicle for his ultra-tiny home away from home. He has turned a 1975 Saab 95 into an adorable little place to spend the night and showed it off on the Self Build Campervans Facebook group . For those not familiar with it, the 95 was the wagon variant of the Saab 93 and slightly later 96 coupe. Early ones had a three-cylinder, two-stroke engine, but Lucking's has the later Ford-sourced V4 powerplant. Gallery: 1975 Saab 95 V4 Micro Camper 15 Photos When Lucking got the 95, it had no interior, so he decided to transform the old Saab into a micro camper. There's a folding rear seat that becomes a seven-foot-long bed, and there's memory foam padding underneath for …
Journos weigh in on ‘fake news’ ban
The government is not happy with the media and sees it as a threat to the country because the government has slipped up. The mainstream media has to start asking questions about whether the government can handle the Covid-19 situation and if there will be a change of government. Calls are getting louder and they are also from government supporters. The media is a convenient scapegoat. What the Thai public and media should know is that Covid-19 will stay around longer than the government. The government is struggling to justify [its stay in office]. It is a war in which the commander, who is given a mandate from the people, sees those who are on the other side as a problem. What is happening to the media is only a symptom. The truth is more about divisiveness in the government and the way the bureaucratic system, which is unable to respond to the pandemic, operates. Facts and reliability are the only weapons of the press. The targets may not be media outlets like us, but the …