«Hoover» — the informal name of the concept car presented by Ariel Aero-P Atom. Of course, it is not collected for domestic comfort housewives, who decided to bring the pilots sporkarov to domestic affairs. Not at all.
This is the distinguished name of the concept car was due to the new aerodynamics, which in the future should gradually get and production cars Ariel. The company's engineers together with TotalSim and Delta Motorsport racing team decided to build on the method of computational fluid dynamics.
The main idea — reducing drag by eliminating the external aerodynamic elements. As in this case, we decided to issue a downforce?
Two high-speed fan mounted in the bottom of the prototype (power is supplied from a separate battery), which create the effect of a vacuum under the car. There are two variants of this process of adjustment — manually or automatically under hard acceleration, braking, etc. It should be noted that the idea is not new fans. It is borrowed from the sport prototype Chaparral 2J of Jim Hall and «formular» car Brabham BT46 Gordon Murray.
The characteristics of the concept car is kept secret. The prototype will be shown at the event on September 14–15, Low Carbon Vehicle Event, which will take place at the site Millbrook near London.
The characteristics of the concept car is kept secret. The prototype will be shown at the event on September 14–15, Low Carbon Vehicle Event, which will take place at the site Millbrook near London.
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