Panhard Dynavia
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Panhard Dynavia Idea
First Proven: 1948 Paris Auto Salon
Description: Excessive-efficiency 4-passenger prototype
Panhard Dynavia
Particulars:
First seen on the 1948 Paris Auto Salon, the Panhard Dynavia was an experimental high-efficiency prototype that includes low aerodynamic drag, lightweight development, and a tiny 2-cylinder engine. Described by Panhard as a 4-passenger automobile, the slender Dynavia would have felt crowded with a full passenger complement.
Energy for the Panhard idea got here from an air-cooled 2-cylinder engine mated to a 4-speed guide transmission. The front-engine front-wheel-drive Dynavia weighed simply 1433 kilos and was able to reaching 81 mpg and returning virtually 60 mpg
Although the Dynavia didn’t attain manufacturing, it’s design and engineering are mirrored within the Dyna Z, which Panhard produced between 1954 and 1959. The Dyna Z was imported to the U.S. for a couple of years by Citroën because the Dyna Panhard (see advert under).
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Panhard Dynavia
CG Says:
Joke. Panhard had not supposed initially to construct a lightweight idea automobile, however European post-war supplies shortages made metal tough to come back by. Aluminum, nevertheless, was comparatively straightforward to acquire, so Panhard went with that.
Whatever the what the Dynavia was made from, it was a pioneering aerodynamic effort, with a drag coefficient of simply .26. The Dynavia is a type of actual vehicles—seemingly born of science fiction—that nobody can title, however which seems in historic pictures occasionally as consultant of the “vehicles of tomorrow.” I liken it to the legendary Tatra “Streamliner” vehicles and the fabulous Rumpler Tropfenwagen. When you’ve seen this Panhard idea earlier than, however didn’t know what it was…now you recognize.
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Panhard Dynavia
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