Before you place an order for your Aston Martin One-77, their new supercar that costs over a million pounds. there's something you ought to know.
It has a quartic (i.e. squared-off circle) steering wheel - like what early Austin Allegros had!
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It has a quartic (i.e. squared-off circle) steering wheel - like what early Austin Allegros had!
... and Formula 1 cars.
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That's not a steering wheel. It's handlebars, allasame wa F1...
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So did the very capable Rover SD1, among others.
Am I the only member of the human race that thinks squared off steering 'wheels' are quite a good idea?
How many F1 drivers would manage with a round one these days? They don't HAVE to be that way.
There were many things wrong with the Austin Allegro. I know, I owned one briefly. But the 'quartic' steering wheel wasn't one of them.
To its credit, BL had the nerve to try new ideas and relatively advanced engineering - viz the 'quartic' steering wheel, hydragas suspension, etc, etc. Some of its ideas, of course, were shouted down by a bunch of dimwitted journos whose imaginations didn't stretch beyond the cart-sprung Ford Cortina.
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Mike,
apparently they got it wrong with the quartic wheel and the SD1 is how it should have been. The SD1 wheel was so successful no one noticed it wasn't round. I certainly never heard any comments at the time. I read that the other day in James Ruppert's "The British Car Industry, Our Part in it's Downfall" as recommended by HJ and which I finally got round to reading.
As for the One 77 I'm waiting for the diesel version with a decent bit of torque :-)
JH
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