I guess the Mini is about the most famous
e.g. tinyurl.com/y292ag
but tinyurl.com/y8oecd for a MB A190
or tinyurl.com/t4lb7 for an Alfa 164 (about half way down) amongst many othe Alfas.
What others have been produced?l
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Actual production, or purely project cars?
If the latter, I've seen a few twin engined Golfs - eg, www.cartorque.co.za/0118.htm
And whilst browsing google, I came across a vid clip of a twin engined Polo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqP0smO4H4
Warning Those people who suffer mechanical sympathy syndrome, turn your speakers down before clicking on the link - otherwise you'll hear the sound of two Suzuki GSX-R engines bouncing off the rev limiters ;o)
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AKAIK, two separate engines are not legal for road use (something like that said on Scrapheap Challenge Scrappy Races a little while back).
One I remember from TV in the 1980s, that just about qualifies, is the Sierra Cosworth from the Duckhams ad. It had an engine in the back to make it go, while the cut-away engine in the front moved for display only. I believe its at Haynes Motor Museum now.
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AKAIK, two separate engines are not legal for road use (something like that said on Scrapheap Challenge Scrappy Races a little while back).
There's plenty of twin engined VWs that been built and are fully legal, how would the Prius stand if the above statement were true?
Dubsport under the leadership of Ian Birch restarted the twin enginled car thing near 10 years ago, they use cable change gearboxes to make life easier
A little video
media.putfile.com/Brutal--Drag--Race-----VW--VR6--...I
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A little video media.putfile.com/Brutal--Drag--Race-----VW--VR6--...I
Very impressive Dox! Makes that poor Mark 1 look like its going backwards!
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In a rare moment of madness, Scrapheap Challenge were wrong on the two engines score. Or at least, partly wrong. The modified car on Scrapheap would not have been road legal in the state it was in to use 2 engines (bulkhead requirements etc), it only had SVA approval for the standard front one, so they had to disconnect the second engine whilst on the road. BUT that doesn't make it illegal to have two engines driving the road wheels. Ask any Prius owner! :)
Shame Rob Llewellyn/A.N.Other writer got that small, but crucial difference wrong, or maybe he explained it but the producer edited it out?
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Does the VW W12 engine count as two engines in that it is two V6s stitched together?
BIG
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Or the 3 litre Triumph Stag with its stiched together ex Saab ex Triumph slant engines.
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There was a Audi TT bimoto featured on top gear a while back. And wasn't there a two engined 2CV?
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And, among the VWs mentioned above, a rare special VW Scirocco was also produced in the 80s: www.scirocco.org/photos/misc/360-4_v.jpg
joc
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I believe that the 4 cylinder NSUs had two 2 cylinder engines joined together. I am right? I had one of these in the 70s and the engine was superb. It was one of the few OHC engines around in a small car, at the time. Light alloy too.
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not as far as I remember, it looked more like a motorcycle lump, but yes good engine & in TTS form quite high BHP for it's day.
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Early Prinz seems to be 2 Cylinders so you could be right!
This is quite interesting:-
www.nsu-cars.ch/seite6.htm
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Wikipedia gives more in english, including a comment on the eccentric driven camshaft
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Prinz
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Citroen produced a twin-engined , 4-WD 2CV Sahara (made all of 24HP with both engines!) in the late 1950s:
tinyurl.com/ykrzas
Davros
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I recall Mercedes doing a twin-engined A-class dolled up in MacLaren colours - purely a one-off for promotional purposes. This was when Mika Hakinnen and David Coulthard were their drivers.
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Tiger Z100
www.tigerracing.com/cars/tiger-z100-main.php
Did anyone see Needell beating the 0-60 record (2.9 seconds) in this on Fifth Gear a few years ago? It looked incredible off the line. Despite sticking a rod through the block of one of the engines on one run...
Cheers
DP
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Ive seen a twin ES9J4 ( thats 3 litre 24 valve if you dont speak Peugeot ) engined 306 a tuning company was building.
No idea if its running yet though.
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Ive seen a twin ES9J4 ( thats 3 litre 24 valve if you dont speak Peugeot ) engined 306 a tuning company was building. No idea if its running yet though.
There is a twin V6 306 with nitrous mentioned in this months Practical Performance Car, it gets a small mention in the Dave Walker tuning section. Must be the same one. Says it beat a "400bhp Ferrari" by three car lengths over a quarter mile, for a feature for another magazine. I should hope it did with 2 engines and 4 wheel drive!..
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If it was yellow & done by Pug1off tuning then thats the one
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If it was yellow & done by Pug1off tuning then thats the one
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Very impressive. Some good pics of the yellow beast
www.clubpeugeotuk.org/gallery/current_cars/10355
www.clubpeugeotuk.org/gallery/current_cars/10356
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That looks lovely now its finished.
Saw it one saturday morning back in april in the process of being built while I was chatting to one of the lads there, Nice to see it complete.
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Ive seen a twin ES9J4 ( thats 3 litre 24 valve if you dont speak Peugeot ) engined 306 a tuning company was building. No idea if its running yet though.
pug1off.com/home.pug
I take it this is the one your on about?
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Thats the one, Nice to see it finished & the website updated.
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It was at Pugfest earlier this year - went u[ Prescott Hillclimb and it didn't look particularly fast. It was however very well engineered.
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It was however very well engineered.
See my earlier links.
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A number of 2CV Saharas were built and I have heard of people building replicas more recently but never seen one in the flesh. The closest I have got was what was clearly a production 2CV Sahara 4x4 parked in Funchal in Madeira about 1980 but when I peered down the cutout in the rear wing, sadly there was no rear engine. With hindsight I should have left a note and offer to buy what was otherwise a running vehicle with all the right holes and bumps.
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A number of 2CV Saharas were built ..... but never seen one in the flesh.
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You might yet be lucky in the UK
I worked with a 2CV enthusiast who IIRC imported one from AUS.
www.ottawacitroenclub.ca/other.html#Sahara
www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php?imagenum=1&carnum=...0
Input station ;-O(((
www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php?imagenum=2&carnum=...0
#2 engine looks like
www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic.php?imagenum=3&carnum=...0
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Seems pretty obvious that nothing with two engines and two conventional manual gearboxes is going to work properly for long, even if the controls can be arranged to operate normally. It was always a rubbish idea.
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Well, while VW were building that, Kim Mather dropped another engine in the back of his on a clubman's budget
www.promrally.bun.com/1987_92.htm
(top left picture - 3.6l 4wd Scirocco !)
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Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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Weren't there also some 2CV twin engined cars that consisted of two front ends welded together but these only used one engine/gearbox at a time.
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Suprised no-one has posted that twin engined Fiat blasting around some European city...
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