Knowledge about what products have been made by automakers that you don’t know

Everyone knows a lot about the cold knowledge of rims. For example, Lamborghini is a tractor manufacturer, ToyotacarThe department was originally established at Toyota Boshoku Mill, along with "Merdess.Benz"Medses" in "is actually the name of the daughter of an Austrian businessman... But today we are talking about something else, for example, did you know that Aston Martin has launched a miniature car similar to Chery QQ? ?

Aston Martin Cygnet

Speaking of Aston Martin, everyone can think of it is an extremely elegant and handsome British supercar. Especially in the 007 movie, the DB series that accompanies Bond to the limelight. But it is this Aston Martin, which has always only produced top luxury sports cars, proposed to produce the urban car Cygnet plan in 2009, and it has been implemented.

A two-door four-seater model called Aston Martin Cygnet was born. Although the appearance seems to have a touch of Aston Martin’s family style. But when it comes to body size, it is only 3.07 meters longer than Ford. The carnival is even smaller, a typical mini car.

As for the reason for the birth of this mini-car, it is said that more than 30% of Aston Martin owners will have a mini or smart as a scooter, and Aston Martin may only launch it because of this. Cygnet.

However, Aston Martin has no experience in producing mini-cars. This small car named Cygnet uses Toyota IQ chassis and power system. Cygnet's power system comes from Toyota's 1.3L dual VVT engine matching CVTtransmission, Its performance is certainly not on par with Martin's GT, Cygnet's maximum power is only 99 horsepower, the maximum torque is 123N.m.

Although the power system and chassis are copied from Toyota's prototype, Cygnet bears the Aston Martin logo after all, so Aston Martin redesigned its exterior and interior. The traditional trapezoidal air intake grille,Engine coverThe two air intakes and the shark fins on the fenders are typical features of the Martin family, plus a 16-inch multi-spoke alloyWheel hubAnd boomerang styletaillight.

In general, the Cygnet car still has the breath of Aston Martin all over it, from the hand-stitched leatherSeat, To the aluminum interior and so on, all strive to reflect the force.

However, if I tell you now, Lamborghini's first mass-produced SUV has already rolled off the assembly line! Lamborghini LM002 was born in the 1970s. The original model was a military vehicle developed by the US military, a typical hard-core off-road SUV.

This story is very complicated. When the Lamborghini LM002 was born, Lamborghini was still not the "professional supercar" in our impression today. A few years before the birth of LM002, Lamborghini had just experienced bankruptcy, and the hard-core off-roader was also out of A tender project of the US military.

Its early model Lamborghini CHEETAH uses a mid-mounted 4-wheel drive design and is equipped with a 5.9L V8 engine with a maximum power of 136KW/4000rpm. Matched with the A727 3-speed automatic transmission also from Chrysler. The body weight is 2042KG, the maximum speed can reach 167KM/h, and the acceleration score of 0-96KM/h is 11 seconds. However, although this was a model with excellent performance, the U.S. military at that time was more inclined to hand over the project to local automakers, so Lamborghini CHEETAH failed to win the bid.

However, the project was stranded, but Lamborghini was unwilling to give up their 4×4 plan. In 1981, the LM001 model based on CHEETAH came out, equipped with a 4.7L V12 gasoline engine with a maximum power of 382 horsepower. The LM002 is based on the former including LM003 and Lm004. It is equipped with a 5.2L V12 engine and equipped with a gearbox from ZF.

Even with today's eyes to measure the Lamborghini LM002, it is still a mechanical monster. 7.7 seconds of 0-96KM/h acceleration time, 209KM/h maximum speed, 120% maximum gradeability, plus the Scorpion series AT specially provided by Pirelli for Lamborghinitire, LM002 weighing 2700KG has the best on-road and off-road performance.

The LM002 was launched in 1986 and ceased production in 1993. Only 328 cars were produced. Lamborghini’s failure to launch the successor model of the LM002 is a pity, but there are some things that can never be predicted, just like no one would have thought that the current Lamborghini will be again. The same goes for the SUV field.

publicCurry sausage

Finally, let's talk to you about a car that is not very relevant. In 2014, German media reported a lace news, saying that the Volkswagen sausage products produced by Volkswagen in Wolfsburg exceeded the production of Volkswagen brand cars for the first time. What? Volkswagen makes sausages in Wolfsburg?

Well, do you think Volkswagen can only build cars? In fact, in the corner of Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg factory, there is a magical department that provides meat products to more than 20 Volkswagen factories and offices in Germany. And the annual output of millions of curry sausages has created the most successful sideline in automobile history, which is the Volkswagen Meat Processing Factory.

In fact, earlier, Volkswagen not only produced its own sausages, but also raised cattle and vegetables in Wolfsburg. The reason is that when Volkswagen decided to settle in Wolfsburg, where the current company headquarters are located, in 1938, Wolfsburg was still a small town with only a few hundred people, but Volkswagen had thousands of workers. Due to the inability to obtain sufficient supplies from outside, the company can only solve the workers' food and lodging on its own. So the factory not only had a butcher shop, but also had its own breeding farm and vegetable plot.

But later, with the development of the city and the increasing scale of the factory, the public no longer raised cattle and grow vegetables, but the meat processing factory was miraculously retained. It's amazing. By the way, I found a data. In 2015, Volkswagen manufactured 7.2 million sausages and sold 5.8 million Volkswagen cars.