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Much more genteel, yet satisfyingly brutal. Then there is the jousting, and the halberd competition. I like that the best. The only hard part is trying to sleep. The revelry goes on late into the night, with the sounds of metal on metal ringing in the chill air as modern-day knights in armor fight with swords, axes, and spears. The occasional siren breaks up the rhythm for the ones that go to the hospital, or jail. Amazingly, the cars themselves are untouched the next morning. Nothing but a little blood spatter, to wipe off with the dew. Cars are sacred here. And some of the best action of the show happens at night. Bobby Stuart from the Jensen Club set up an impromptu drag race on a deserted stretch of Mountain Road, and they whupped the Aston Martin cretins hard. As all that unfolded, the Land Rover guys were replicating Gleason's famous night time crossing of Siberia up on the Mansfield ski slopes.
From the first product briefing in a Barcelona hotel, to the dusty end of a day of off- and on-road driving, Land Rover engineers and public relations staff gave me stacks of information about the new diesel-enginedRange Rover Sport. How efficient the newly motivated SUV would be, how much it will cost buyers, facts about the technology that's gone into the new engine, notes on available feature content, and more. But, before I'd turned a wheel in the freshest Range Rover family member, the most intriguing bit was this: in blind pre-production testing, not a single participant had identified that the vehicle they were driving was diesel-powered. To put it bluntly, I was skeptical. Were the driver's fashionistas whose only conception of "diesel" was as a slightly bro-y clothing company? Perhaps the unwitting test-drivers were casually selected from queue-standers at the local Beltone hearing test center? As it turns out, Land Rover has done a lot of work to make the 3.0-liter, "Td6" turbodiesel as quiet as possible.
Though the 2018 edition of the Paris Motor Show doesn鈥檛 begin until early October, we already have a good idea as to what some of the show鈥檚 biggest stars are likely to be. Following on from March鈥檚 Geneva Motor Show as the second major European automotive exhibition of the calendar year, the Paris Motor Show alternates with the International Motor Show Germany in Frankfurt every year. Paris 2016 certainly didn鈥檛 disappoint on the new car front, either. With hugely important electric concept cars from Volkswagen and Mercedes in the form of the I.D. Generation EQ hitting the stands. Audi looks set for a big Paris show, with the firm's new A1 supermini all set to make its public debut. We've had our first look at the second-generation Volkswagen Polo rival and the show will be our first proper oppurtunity to get up close and personal with the new A1. Elsewhere, the venerable A4 has been spied testing ahead of a facelift, while the A6 Avant range will expand with a tough Allroad version in Paris too.
Exhaust gases were blowing out between the head and the block. It seemed like a classic case of fire ring failure in the head gasket. In years past, I'd have been right on it with new head gaskets and a cleaned up heads. Today, not so quick . As it happens, our caution turned out to be well founded. Here are both heads off the motor. As clearly shown, only one has a blowout (second cylinder from the left, upper head) So far, it looks like a blown gasket. OK, now lets look at a closeup of the failed cylinder in that upper head. The blowout line is in the center. Look at the holes for the head bolts. The one on the left is actually facing the front of the engine, as you are seeing the head upside down (we will look at that hole in the block in a minute) Note how its orange from coolant intrusion.
