In 2015 the film “Mad Max: Fury Road” debuted in cinemas, a remake of the 1979 film “Interceptor the Road Warrior”, set in a post-apocalyptic future which sees the Earth reduced to a desert and men divided into tribes they fight among themselves for survival using technologies dating back to the pre-apocalyptic period. Among these, internal combustion engines, units installed on brutal vehicles designed to battle in the desert lands that characterize the Planet.
In Ariel Motor Company, a small British car manufacturer based in Somerset specialized in the creation of road sports cars with bodies limited to a few panels and produced in limited series, the vehicles built to make the film must have been liked so much that in 2015 they derived from their own Atom model, an extreme dune buggy with “Fury Road” performance.
Called Nomad, it was proposed as an all-terrain sports vehicle equipped with a 3 horsepower naturally aspirated Honda “K24” four-cylinder engine enclosed within a frame made of exposed steel tubes. Now, almost 10 years after the launch of “Nomad”, the debut of “Nomad 2”, the second generation of the car. Completely revised, the new model increases performance by being equipped with a two-litre Ford “Ecoboost” and three hundred cubic centimeters of displacement capable of a maximum power of 309 horsepower and a torque of 518 newton meters, a six-speed manual gearbox also available in a sequential version with paddles on the steering wheel and which acts on the rear axle via a self-locking differential.
There are three power maps and both the functional responses of the traction control systems and the intervention levels of the ABS system can be configured. It should be noted that the few body panels are made of carbon and the roof features a large air intake within which two different ducts integrate an air-to-air intercooler and a double filter for the air directed to the engine.
Exposed frame and flat trim
The chassis supported by double wishbone suspensions of different lengths controlled by external direct acting shock absorbers and the suspension geometry integrates anti-dive and anti-squat systems to reduce load transfers during acceleration and braking. A new steering geometry then achieves more direct control of the front end by the driver without forcing the latter to have to exert high forces on the steering wheel or to have to deal with anomalous reactions off-road and this is thanks to a different rack. Finally, the brakes have been upgraded by 40 percent, based on four-piston calipers, ventilated discs measuring 1.5 inches in diameter and operated by a circuit that allows the braking power on the front and rear wheels to be modulated, differentiating them based on the surface. on which the car moves and the driving style expected by the driver.
Title: Ariel Motor “Nomad 2”: fury road
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