‘Makers’ Archives
IFR ASPID
IFR Aspid Aspid is a creation of IFR Automotive. IFR company was born in Reus (Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain) in 2003 by Ignacio Fernandez Rodriquez, with the objective to take a leading role in the automotive market in terms of the innovation of new technologies. The main [Read More]
Abarth
History: Abarth was founded the 15th April of 1949 in Turin (Italy) by Karl Abarth. In the 1960s, Abarth & C. S.r.l was quite successful in hillclimbing and sports car racing, mainly in classes from 850cc up to 2000cc, competing with Porsche 904 and Ferrari Dino. Hans [Read More]
AD Tramontana
Nostalgia, love, cutting edge technology, engineering, pursuit of perfection and hand-crafting. This is AD Tramontana. Some of the following information has been extracted from the Press Release: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Spanish automotive industry was [Read More]
Benchmarking
What’s benchmarking? Benchmarking is the process of analysing and comparing to identifying “best practice” in a business. And to identify areas and means of improvement. The benchmarking process can take place inside a particular industry, and also in other [Read More]
Car chassis construction
Chassis have to be stiff enough so that they withstand the forces applied to them. This is point is really important in the suspension settings. If the chassis bends a little the car in not going to behave as expected (as linear) because the ride is being modified, in [Read More]
Passenger Car Layouts
Normally car manufacturers tend to make their cars have an equal weight distribution for each wheel. This is because this is the overall best weight distribution. Makes the car both good at acceleration, braking and steering. However, if you want to achieve a purpose there [Read More]
